FINAL SINTHESIS STUDIO-LABORATORY D
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2016/2017
- Teacher
- ROMEO FARINELLA
- Credits
- 23
- Didactic period
- Annualità Singola
Training objectives
- The Urban Planning Lab addresses the key issues raised by the evolution and changes in the social-economic and environmental context.
In particular, it examines the role of planning as a tool for critically reading and designing the urban transformations in a perspective of sustainable development.
The educational approach aims to support complex thinking, and facilitate an interdisciplinary approach, working in team. Fundamental aspects deal with the investigation on the main issues related to contemporary urban dynamics, thus encouraging a cognitive and comparative method based also on international comparison.
The different courses within the LSFD are 5, articulated as follow:
Urban design ( ICAR/21 - 96 hours)
In depth analysis of the different methods and tools of urban design.
Environmental, Urban and Territorial Restoration and Renovation (ICAR/21 - ICAR/20 - 20 hours)
Theoretical and operational design and planning issues related to actions/projects ascribable to European experiences of urban re-generation.
Landscape Planning and Governance ( ICAR/20 - 20 hours)
Planning and design of the urban landscape, with a particular attention to the organization, accessibility and use of green spaces, public spaces (both central and marginal), fringe areas.
Landscape Architecture ( ICAR/15- 20 hours)
Study and deepening of the theoretical and technical aspects of landscape design connected to infrastructural systems.
Strategic Planning (SECS-P/06 - 60 hours)
in depth study of the issues concerning the relationships among urban planning, economic planning, and strategic planning of urban space at different scales.
As for "F" activities, students of the LSFD will have to attend one of the workshops organized by the college faculty and / or by the professors of the urban studies area within the research projects or the international cooperation programs they direct.
Basic required knowledge is:
- critical interpretation of the urban context as an historical phenomenon;
- awareness and knowledge of contemporary urban re-generation issues at national and international level;
- understanding and awareness of contemporary phenomena of urban growth and sprawl;
The required skills are:
- Knowledge of the theoretical and practical approaches aiming at the formulation of urban planning strategies and urban re-generation projects;
- ability of processing analytical and synthetic frameworks, necessary for the understanding of the dynamics of urban transformation;
- independent development of both individual and group work methods in the field of urban design. Prerequisites
- The student must have acquired and assimilated the knowledge provided by the courses:
- Urban Planning Studio;
- Territorial Organization and Planning.
The Urban Planning Studio is considered as a preparatory course. Course programme
- The main topic of the LSFD is: "City and Territory: spaces of the public realm and sustainable development".
The Lab is structured upon 4 courses listed in the "Learning Outcomes", with 216 teaching hours on a total of 500 hours. The non-teaching hours are dedicated to projects' reviews, field visits and surveys of the study areas and practice exercises.
The main "topic" of the Laboratory is intended as field of study, broad enough to allow multiple analytical and design developments, while delimiting a rather defined disciplinary approach, with no reference to specific geographical areas, regions or cities.
The main topic relates to the common fields of interest and research of the teaching staff, and allows the strengthening of a closer relationship between research activities and teaching, both finalized at the preparation of the students' master thesis.
The various issues addressed by the different thesis' topics will be developed by the different courses of the Laboratory with specific theoretical and methodological contributions (which are part of the teaching hours), as well as with exercises and seminars in order to deepen some technical and operational aspects. A special attention will be put on interdisciplinarity with the involvement of internal and external staff and experts.
Starting from the second semester, together with the Professors of the 4 courses, the academic board will be also represented by the different students' supervisors which will directly follow their master thesis. These other Professors will also participate to the seminars and the thesis reviews, with procedures and timing to be determined.
The choice of the thematic and physical field of study is free, but must be consistent with the main LSFD's topics.
The thesis should adopt a preliminary analytical-interpretative framework, then develop a design strategy and, ultimately, deepen a design topic or area. Project's scale is that of the urban and/or territorial project; the different courses will provide useful elements and reflections in order to develop the final urban design. Especially during the analytical phase, the Landscape Planning and Governance and Environmental, Urban and Territorial Restoration and Renovation courses will be taught, while Strategic Planning will be taught along with the definition of the project strategy and the resulting relations with the design focus of each work. The Urban Design course will have the main task of monitoring and guide the development of the planning stages of the master thesis, contributing -during the analytical steps- to the definition of the interpretative approach within the investigated context.
The issues addressed by the various courses and the proposed approaches and methodologies will allow the students to elaborate their urban projects, being aware of the complexity of factors, both historical and cultural, social and economic, which determine the shape of the city. Didactic methods
- The laboratory is organized in the following way:
lectures (in class) on all the course's subjects;
practice exercises carried on by each course, as part of their teaching load;
conferences held by external experts;
periodic checks and reviews on the progress of the thesis' works -two per semester- conducted as seminars, and slide presentation of the work done by the students. Learning assessment procedures
- The final exam consists in a qualifying examination, determining whether the student is ready for the discussion of its work. Being a laboratory that guides the student in the elaboration of the master thesis, the merit assessment of the design choices will be given to the Graduate Commission.
The lab Professors, and especially the lab's coordinator, will pass the student's qualifying examination during regular examination sessions, only after checking:
regular participation to class activities and lessons;
participation to the two main review seminars conducted at the end of each semester;
participation to planned revisions;
the assessment of a sufficient level of detail of the thesis work. The qualifying examination consists in a slide presentation to the committee, composed by Lab's Professors, on the advancement of the thesis project and a discussion about the carried out work and the learning process carried out within the laboratory. Reference texts
- G. Ave ( a cura di), Sostenibilità ambientale e rigenerazione urbana, Alinea Editrice, 2003
Choay F. (1995), L'allegoria del patrimonio, Roma, Officina.
Amin A., Thrift N.(2005), Città. Ripensare la dimensione urbana. Bologna, il Mulino.
D'Albergo E., Lefreve C. (a cura di) (2007), Le strategie internazionali delle città. Dieci metropoli a confronto, Bologna, il Mulino.
Roger A.(2009), Breve trattato sul paesaggio, Palermo, Sellerio.
Farinella R,, Ronconi M. (a cura di) (2011), Politiche dell'abitare e progetto urbano, Bologna, Editrice Compositori.
Additional texts will be suggested to students in relation to their thesis topic.
