AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

This theoretical-practical teaching aims to provide students with an integrated understanding of urban design processes at multiple scales. The central objective is to develop analytical and design skills that connect urban and environmental readings with coherent architectural responses, through an approach that transitions from global diagnostics to local intervention.

The course promotes the exploration of urban complexity through three complementary axes: multiscale analysis, management of functional and environmental diversity, and activation of interactions between processes, programs, and stakeholders. This translates into the formulation of innovative design scenarios—architectural, urban, and territorial—capable of responding to contemporary relational logics.

The methodological approach privileges a multiscale perspective, integrating landscape, mapping, and urban strategies within a coherent framework. The course investigates the relationships between city and territory, with particular attention to the European context, addressing emerging themes such as strategic planning, mixed programming, urban resilience, and technological innovation applied to territorial systems.

TEACHING METHODS

The course is organized as an interdisciplinary design studio, supported by lectures, seminars, and innovative teaching methods (such as world café, flipped classroom, etc.). The design exercise will therefore include moments of discussion and exchange among instructors from different disciplines.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

· Analysis of city-territory relationships at multiple scales
· Integrated urban, environmental, and territorial reading
· From global observation to local intervention
· Urban and territorial mapping
· Architectural and urban design strategies
· Territorial regeneration scenarios
· Integration of landscape and infrastructure
· Strategic planning and mixed programming
· Urban resilience and territorial adaptability
· Smart City
· Inclusive relational logics (city-citizens-stakeholders)
· New social and urban scenarios

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bibliographic references may be provided as needed for further in-depth study or as supporting material, including in English for international students.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy