Brenner – The Hinterland, Urbanized?

• The following list includes fundamental texts published in English. Further readings will be recommended during the studio. Materials that regard the selected site are mostly published in Italian.

Argomenti del programma: The City and Territory Studio unfolds the relationships between designing specific spaces and building, conceptual frameworks that frame urbanisation processes and the creative potential of design-based approaches to complex issues and challenges. In the early 2000s, United Nations (UN) statisticians determined that more than 50 per cent of the world’s population was living within cities, and that was the basis for…

Argomenti del programma: The lockdown experience in many cities and towns, as a response to the pandemic in early 2020, has shed new light on the complex relationships between individual and collective decisions, not least the limited impact that disruptive changes in our daily routine had on air and environmental quality in cities, consumption of non-renewable resources, inequalities in urban life.