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 | Webinar to present the MSc in Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning. The webinar will be held on July 23, at 2pm. More details and how to access by clicking on the image on the left. |
18 and 25 of May, 2020. Within the Course Planning for Heritage, international experts bring insights on methodologies and practices of knowledge, management and enhancement of urban and landscape heritage. These lectures also address to the students of the Post-Graduate School of Architectural Heritage and Landscape. Conveners: Claudia Cassatella, Mauro Volpiano. For details, click on the image on the right. |  |
 | In the framework of the Studio Pianificazione paesaggistica e territoriale of the MSc in Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning the seminar "I servizi ecologici forniti dal sistema verde urbano e periurbano. Esperienze e prospettive" has been organised for the 28th of April, 2020. The speaker is PhD Luca Battisti, University of Torino. More details by clicking on the image on the left. |
In the framework of the Studio Pianificazione paesaggistica e territoriale of the MSc in Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning the seminar "La pianificazione paesaggistica in Lombardia. Esperienze e prospettive" has been organised for the 29th of April, 2020. The speaker is Prof. Andrea Arcidiacono of the Politecnico di Milano. More details by clicking on the image on the right. |
 | The activities of the "Designing Resilient Heritage Landscapes" joint workshop and graduation studio continue online. A webinar was held on April 3, 2020, where PoliTo students presented and discussed their work progress with other students and tutors, including Prof. Steffen Nijhuis from TU Delft. Looking forward some on-the-ground experience. |
The interdisciplinary seminar "Il nome della rosa" has been organised as part of the activities of the "Descrivere, Analizzare, Interpretare" Studio, in the framework of the BSc in Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning. For more info, click on the image on the right. |  |
 | Within the framework of the MIUR Excellence 2018-2022 project, the School of Planning and Design offers to its students different "extra" teaching activities: workshops, field trips, graduation studios, and seminars organised in collaboration with national and international academic and non-academic partners. Details by clicking the image on the left. |
Call for participation INTERPRÉTER LA VILLE / INTERPRETING THE CITY. Sources, models, architectures and urban transformations between Torino and Paris in the Modern Age The international joint workshop is part of the activities of the Master degree course in Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning and open to the Bachelor degree in Architettura/Architecture. Activities include the organization of in-depth seminars and conferences oriented to the educational training and cultural discussion, as well as visits organized between Torino and Paris. Twin on-site intensive workshops will be held in Torino (March 2020) and in Paris (June 2020) sharing and transferring methodologies and integrating EPHE and PoliTO students into joint teams. Deadline: January 27, 2020. Details by clicking on the image on the right. |  |
 | Opening of Spazio AurorlaLAB. University in the peripheries: An urban lab of the Politecnico di Torino to regenerate Turin's peripheries. December 11, 2019. H. 10AM, Via Cuneo 6bisAfter a one year long work, the AuroraLAB space will be opened to mark the presence of the Politecnico di Torino in a space made available by the District 7 in Via Cuneo 6bis. This is a research-action pilot project, between teaching (learning by doing), (responsible) research, and local action (co-design), with two main aims:
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Students of the BSc and MSc in Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning are invited to attend the meeting for the presentation of the ERASMUS+ mobility. The meeting will be held in room 7VM, at 13:00, on December 18. Click on the image on the right for more details. |   |
 | The seminar "Urbanistica senza carta per conoscere e pianificare il territorio. Un’Azione della Regione Piemonte" will be held on November 26, h. 11:00-13:00, in room 6VM. The seminar is organised within the Pianificare la Città Studio, by professors C.A. Barbieri, G. Mondini and S. Gomes. More info by clinking on the image on the left. |
The debate will be held on November 25, at 8:30 in room 6VM. More info by clicking on the link on the right. |  |
 | From November 22 to 24, 2019, the didactic workshop "Narration of the city: a multidisciplinary path of knowledge between historical sources and media narrative" will be held in Padua and Venice. The workshop has been organised in the framework of the activities of the "Comparative City History" course of the PGUA curriculum of the MSc in Planning. More details by clicking on the image on the left. |
The photo exhibition "UNTITLED: Torino" will be held at the Castello del Valentino on November 25, 27, 28 and 29 2019. The exhibition is based on the research "Untitled. Hybrid spaces of contemporary cities" and presents images of urban voids, dismissed factories, recent urban transformations that challenge the idea of planning as a discipline that works with predefinite categories. More details by clicking on the image on the right. |  |
 | In the framework of the Studio "Programmi integrati di sviluppo locale e rigenerazione urbana" (MSc in Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning) a cycle of seminar has been organised on the topic of urban regeneration, taking into account national and international cases. Seminars will be held on November 19 and December 5 and 12. Click on the image on the left for more details. |
A series of seminars will be organised in the framework of the courses "Geografia urbana e territoriale" and "Sociologia dell’ambiente e del territorio" of the MSc in Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning. The series, "Geografie dell'abitare ai margini” is centred around the issue of the right to the city - the inclusive city, the provision of decent housing, reflections on access to public services and on quality of life - as it is referred to in the New Urban Agenda of the United Nations (Quito, 2016). Seminars are open to the participation of all students. To know more, please click on the image on the right. |  |
 | The exhibition "Berlino 2019. Le trasformazioni dello spazio pubblico" will be open from October 28th to the 31st. Photos have been taken by students taking part to the field trip to the German city and the visit has been organised thanks to funds provided by the university and the DIST department. To know more, please click on the image on the left. |
GIS Re-Start is an extra-curricular activity for Master Students in Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning. It is a short intro to Geographic Information System: to know more, please click on the image on the right. |  |
 | A welcome address of the Rector for the Bachelor's freshmen: Dear students, it is my pleasure to invite you to a short ceremony to officially start the beginning of the 2019-2020 academic year. The ceremony will take place on September 30, at 9AM, in room 2VM in Via Morgari 36/B. It will be dedicated to you all, at the beginning of your journey in this university. I hope to meet many of you! With warm greetings, The Rector Guido Saracco |
The programme for the Welcome and Orientation Week (a.y. 2019-2020) for the new students of the BSc in Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning and students from high schools (Summer School, URPLOT project) is available by clicking on the image on the right. Activities will start in the morning of September 30, with the Rector of the Politecnico di Torino, and will last for the whole week and in different premises of the university. |  |
 | On September 30, 2019, the Students Welcome Day will take place in the Via Morgari premises. Please click on the image on the left for details of both the welcoming of students attending the English (in the morning) and the Italian (in the afternoon) curricula. |
On July 12, 2019, the AESOP - Association of European Schools of Planning has awarded the "Certificate of Quality" to our Bachelor in Territorial, Urban, Landscape and Environmental Planning. The Certificate has already been given to our Master level programme in 2016. The award is not assigned with a "raking list" approach, rather it is given to university programmes that satisfy the European quality standards for training of planners, as recognised by the AESOP Charter, as well as a concrete internationalisation of the teaching activities. |  |
 | The call for selection for "Polito 4 Impact - Percorso per i Giovani Talenti", a.y. 2019/2020, has been launched. The call is for bachelor level students and 5 positions are for students of the BSc in Territorial, Urban, Environment and Landscape Planning. Activities will refer to the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals of the Agenda 2030 and, among those, the SDG11 (Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable). SGD11 characterises our programmes and teaching activities, thus making of the Percorso a further chance to improve the students' curricula. Activities will start from the second year (July) and deadline to participate is September 23, 2019. More details by clicking the image on the left and visiting the dedicated webpage. |
From October 2019 and until January 2020 the workshop "Rischio territoriale e patrimonio culturale. Pianificazione della prevenzione e rigenerazione del patrimonio culturale diffuso di interesse religioso" will take place. The workshop, organised by the School of Planning and Design of the Politecnico di Torino, will involve students in activities related to risk prevention and religious cultural heritage valorisation in a perspective of planning at the territorial scale. Governance strategies will be developed in synergy with related local communities. To apply, a motivational letter, a CV and/or portfolio, and a valid identity document should be sent to the following email address: ecclesiasticalheritage.r3c@polito.it Deadline to apply is September 23, 2019.More details by clicking on the image on the right. |  |
 | NEW! A template to create a portfolio of our student's experiences is available. To know more and download the template, visit the Career opportunities webpage. |
The Master of Science programme in Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning will be presented to future students on June 28th, at 11:30 AM, in room 7VM. Please click on the image on the right for more details. |  |
The Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST) has organized an international joint workshop with the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Maryland as part of the Master's Degree Program in Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning. The educational objective is to study methods, tools and indexes aimed at the sustainability of cities and territories. The teaching staff is a multidisciplinary group of three departments (DIST, DENERG and DIATI) of the Politecnico di Torino, plus a professor from the University of Maryland. The proposed workshop is organized with 10 days of seminar activities in English on the sustainability of the building heritage and transport infrastructures. The program includes 18 hours of theoretical lessons, 12 hours of exercise activities and 35 hours of guided tours in January 3rd-11th 2020 (3CFU). More details by clicking on the image on the right. |  |
 | In September 2019 and March 2020 a Graduation Studio and Joint Workshop will be held on "Designing Resilient Heritage Landscapes". The initiative is organised by the School of Planning and Design of the Politecnico di Torino and the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the Delft University of Technology. More info for the participation of 6 selected students are available by clicking on the image on the left. Applications must be sent by June 17th, 2019 to: delft2019@polito.it |
On September 11-13, 2019, the field-trip "Pianificazione Strategica per la Città Resiliente. Approcci, Progetti e Innovazioni nella Città di Copenaghen” will take place to strengthen the competences of future planners. Their skills, in fact, need to be up to date for a profession that requires to work with human transformation of the environment in a resilient perspective. The field-trip is addressed to 10 selected students among those enrolled to the 2018-2019 academic year of the MSc in Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning. 3 ECTS will be recognised to the participants.The deadline for the call is June 3, 2019 and the application must be sent to the following email address: |  |
 | On May 20 2019 the Final Celebration of the UNI-NUA Graduation Studio will be held at the Castello del Valentino, Comoli Room (h. 10:00-13:00). Most of the students that took part to the Studio, as well as their supervisors from Italy and Japan, will be there to present their thesis after having successfully graduated. Please find details by clicking on the image on the left. |
Between May and October 2019 the didactic workshop "Rigenerare lo spazio pubblico: standard, suolo e servizi ecosistemici" will be held (in Italian). The workshop is mainly addressed to students of the Schools of Planning and Design, Architecture, Engineering for the Environment and Territory, Civil Engineering, Building Engineering but it may welcome students coming from other universities. Up to 4 credits can be recognised to participants of the BSc and MSc of the Schools of Planning and Design and of Architecture. For details, please click on the image on the right. For detailed programme of the first lesson (02.05.2019), click here. For detailed programme of the second lesson (08.05.2019), click here. |  |
 | On April 9 2019 the workshop "Working collaboratively with others" will be held in the framework of the Transnational Programmes Design course activities. The workshop will be held by prof. Sebastian Macmillan, course director and senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge. For details, click on the image on the left. |
In the framework of the activities for the field trip in Berlin, organised by Spunto Collettivo and co-financed with university funds dedicated to students' initiatives and funds from the DIST department, a seminar will be held on the 11th of April, 2019, on "Parchi urbani. Esperienze di rigenerazione". The seminar will be held by prof. Alessandro Gabbianelli. For details, click on the image on the right. |  |
 | Within the Course Planning for Heritage, international experts will bring insights on methodologies and practices of preservation and enhancement of urban and landscape heritage. Particular attention will be paid to the role of planning tools and processes and post-disaster recovery planning. The lectures will be held between April and May 2019. For details, click on the image on the left. |
Between April and May 2019 prof. Gilles Novarina (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble), will held a series of open lectures in interaction, a series organised within “Planning Circles”, a project of Excellence for Didactics of the School of Planning and Design. Territorial governance, urban projects and innovation, green and blue infrastructures and Unesco sites are among the topics, object of a comparison from the perspective of planning culture in France. For details, click on the image on the right. |  |
 | In the framework of the activities for the field trip in Berlin, organised by Spunto Collettivo and co-financed with university funds dedicated to students' initiatives and funds from the DIST department, a seminar will be held on the 28th of March, 2019, on "Berlin. Planning, regeneration and transformation". The seminar will be held by Francesca Bragaglia and Alessandro Delladio. For details, click on the image on the left. |
 | On March 13, 2019, the seminar and exhibition ""Il fiume al centro. L'approccio paesaggistico alla pianificazione urbanistica" have been organised in the framework of the Studio Pianificare il territorio e il paesaggio, a studio of the MSc in Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning (a.y. 2018-2019). The events have been also supported by the Municipality of Collegno. For details, click on the image on the left. |
Call for participation to the field trip "Berlin: on the transformations of the public space" (8-12.05.2019) The theme that has been chosen for the field trip is public space, understood as a space for interpersonal relationships and for sociality, characterized by several levels of accessibility and able to adapt to different uses over time. In order to apply, the application letter must be sent by Friday 22 March 2019 to the email address: collettivopianificazione@gmail Download here the call for participation. |  |
On December 5, 2018, at 9:00 in room 6VM in Via Morgari, the seminar "Città del mondo a confronto" will take place. The seminar is organised by students of the MSc in Planning in the framework of the cicle "Città e territori tra sfide e problemi 2". More details by clicking on the flyer on the right. |  |
 | On November 28, 2018, at 10:00 in room 6VM in Via Morgari, the seminar "Catastrofi naturali e artificiali: la forma del rischio e le sfide per la società" will take place. The main speaker is Luigi Buzzacchi, economist. The seminar is organised in the framework of the cicle "Città e territori tra sfide e problemi 2". More details by clicking on the flyer on the left. |
The exhibition "Searching for hybrid spaces" will take place in the Sala Colonne of the Castello del Valentino from November 26 to 29, 2018 (h. 12:00-18:00). The exhibition is organised within the framework of the UNTITLED research project of the DIST department. For more info, click on the image on the right. |  |
 | On November 26, 2018, at 10:00 in room 6VM in Via Morgari, the seminar "Beni comuni e cittadini attivi" will take place. Main speakers Daniela Ciaffi, sociologist, and Emanuela Saporito, architect. The seminar is organised in the framework of the cicle "Città e territori tra sfide e problemi 2". More details by clicking on the flyer on the left. |
Call for Participation to the Drinkscape activities for Graduate students in Yubune (Japan) and Cella Monte (Italy). The Drinkscape KIT/PoliTo programme explores the relationship between urban and rural areas from the point of food production, supply and consumption and focuses in particular on the increasing cultural value of productive landscapes and traditional agricultural practices. The call will be open until November, 30. For more details, click on the image on the right. |  |
 | On December 6, 2018 the seminar "Integrated urban development strategies in EU Cohesion Policy 2014-2020" will be held in Room 4VM (Via Morgari) at 4PM. The main speaker is Carlotta Fioretti, from JRC. The seminar is organised within the cycle "Leaps into urban regeneration". For more info click in the image on the left. |
On November 29, 2018 the seminar "Il teatro sociale e di comunità come pratica di inclusione" will be held in Room 4VM (Via Morgari) at 4PM. Main speakers are: Fabrizio Stasia and Lorena La Rocca, from the Social Community Theatre Centre. The seminar is organised within the cycle "Leaps into urban regeneration". For more info click in the image on the right. |  |
 | On November 21, 2018, at 10:00 in room 6VM in Via Morgari, the seminar "Post-disastro e processi socio-spaziali" will take place. The main speaker is Davide Olori, sociologist. The seminar is organised in the framework of the cicle "Città e territori tra sfide e problemi 2". More details by clicking on the flyer on the left. |
On November 12, 2018, at 10:00 in room 6VM in Via Morgari, the seminar "Urbanizzazione nei paesi del Sud del mondo e ripercussioni sui fenomeni migratori" will take place. The main speaker is Mario Artuso, planner. The seminar is organised in the framework of the cicle "Città e territori tra sfide e problemi 2". More details by clicking on the flyer on the right. |  |
 | On November 9 2018, at 2:30PM in the Sala Vigliano of the Castello del Valentino, the seminar "Turin. The image of the student city" has been organised. Jakub Zasina, from the University of Lodz, and Erica Mangione, of the Politecnico di Torino will present their researches. Professors Luigi Buzzacchi and Alfredo Mela will be their discussants. More details by clicking on the image on the left. |
On November 8, 2018 the seminar "Le politiche della casa" will be held in Room 4VM (Via Morgari) at 4PM. Main speakers are: Daniela Adorni and Davide Tabor, University of Turin. The seminar is organised within the cycle "Leaps into urban regeneration". For more info click in the image on the right. |  |
On November 16 2018, at 2:30PM in the Sala Vigliano of the Castello del Valentino, the seminar "Housing for Degrowth", has been organised to present the book "Housing for Degrowth. Principles, models, challenges and opportunities". To present, together with the editors Anitra Nelson and François Schneider, Karl Krähmer, contributor to the book, and discussants Nadia Caruso, Dario Padovan, and Alberto Vanolo. Further details by clicking on the image on the right. |  |
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 | Second Day of the Laboratorio del Cammino: Camminare in territori vulnerabili The day starts with a seminar (h. 9:30-13:00, Room 10V) in which those that took part to the "Sicilia coast to coast" summer school will present results from their researches. In the afternoon an exhibition will be opened in Room 4VM (h. 16:30-18:00): words, drawings, images of the summer school will be used to understand participants' points of view on the vulnerability of the Sicilian territory. For more info, click on the image on the left. |
On October 17, 2018, at 8:30 in room 6VM in Via Morgari, the seminar "Urbano o non urbano: questo è il problema?" will take place. The main speaker is Enrico Pulitani, PhD student at IUAV, Venice. The seminar is organised in the framework of the course of Geografia Urbana e Territoriale. More details by clicking on the flyer on the right. |  |
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2018-2019: Interdisciplinary Welcoming Week The 2018-2019 programme for the welcoming initiatives for freshmen of the Bachelor degree in Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning is online. Click on the image on the right for more info. It is also possible to download here the ppt presentation showed on October 1, 2018 in Room 2VM. |  |
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 | On September 21, 2018, a seminar titled "Una nuova prospettiva per lo sviluppo sostenibile. Dalle comunità energetiche agli NZEB" will be held at the Energy Center. The upcoming adoption of the nZeb Standard (EU Directive 31/10) will interest all public buildings since January 1, 2019, and all buildings after two more years. The seminar (held in Italian) will see researchers, representatives of institutions, planners, and designers debate on plans, policies, experimentations that are interesting opportunities and experiences. For more info and extended programme: click here. |
The Joint Workshop "Challenging the Urban Fabric", promoted by the School of Planning and Design of the DIST department and the School of Architecture and Design of the DAD department of the Politecnico di Torino together with the Hosei University (Center for Edo-Tokyo Studies, Future City Laboratory Tokyo) and Sci_Arc from US, has seen six Polito students interact with their Japanese and US colleagues. The Italian professors taking part to the JW were Claudia Cassatella and Marco Santangelo, from DIST, and Nicola Russi and Mauro Volpiano, from DAD. Results from the JW will be published later in 2018 and available on the universities' websites. |  |
 | On June 22, 2018, h. 11:30-13:00 in the Vigliano Room the seminar "Exploring the memory of disaster today for World heritage tomorrow. A five phases glocal approach" by prof. Kobayashi will be presented. The seminar will be about a study and a proposal linking advanced planning for disaster prevention with landscape architecture. The presentation is based on Kobayashi’s experience with recovery and advance planning for Hanshin (Kobe) and Rikuzentakata (Iwate), in Japan. For more details, click on the image on the left. |
On Thursday, the 7th of June 2018 (Room 4VM) a seminar will present the results of the works that students have produced in the integrated course "Mobilita'/Sistemi insediativi" (second year of the Bachelor Programme in Territoeial, Urban, Environment and Landscape Planning). Students' works will be discussed by Eng. Alessandro Delpiano (Citta' metropolitana di Bologna), Eng. Giannicola Marengo (Citta' metropolitana di Torino), and Arch. Andrea Stanghellini (Agenzia della mobilita' piemontese). Please download the flyer for more info (by clicking on the image on the right). |  |
 | The Workshop "Community-led local development: Experimenting (local?) innovation" will be held by prof. Servillo in the framework of the Transnational Programmes Design course. The workshop will take place on May 16, in Room 3VM (Via Morgari). Please download the flyer for more info (by clicking on the image on the left). |
On May 21, 2018 the outcomes of the Joint Workshop "Planning for the global urban agenda. Shaping ecodistricts in Tokyo suburbs" will be presented. The Joint Workshop, organised by the University of Tokyo and the Politecnico di Torino, will be the focus of a seminar (on the 21st) and of an exhibition (from the 21st to the 25th of May). More details by clicking on the image on the right. |
 | In May 2018 will take place the new edition of the "Prospettive dai margini della città" film exhibition. The theme/title for this year is: Let's talk about the elephant in the room. The Exhibition, organised by Spunto Collettivo as usual, is supported by the School of Planning and Design. The programme can be downloaded by clicking on the image on the left. |
The Joint Workshop CHALLENGING THE URBAN FABRIC. RETHINKING URBAN INTERFACES IN TOKYO is promoted by the Politecnico di Torino (DAD and DIST department), from Hosei University in Tokyo, and from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). The Joint Workshop, dedicated to master level students, will take place in Tokyo from July 16 to 20, 2018. To download the call click here. Deadline for applications: 26.04.2018 |  |
 | In the framework of the "UNTITLED. Hybrid spaces in contemporary cities" research project a seminar will presents the latest results in "Energy at Urban ScalE modeling. The impact on policies for the rEUSE of existing buildings and empty spaces". The seminar will be held on April 19, 2018, 14:30-17:30, in the Vigliano Room at the Castello del Valentino. It is possible to download the programme here. |
Job opportunity: on April 9, 2018, at 10 AM in a room to be defined at the Politecnico di Torino, a meeting will be held between representatives of the Lidl company and students. After the meeting individual interviews will be held for the Junior Real Estate Developer position. For more info: http://stagejob.polito.it/eventi#lidl |  |
On March 22, 2018 (h. 4PM) the seminar "Pratiche cartografiche. La percezione dello spazio in rapporto a scrittura e cammino" has been held in room 7VM, Politecnico di Torino. For more info on the activities of the Laboratorio del Cammino, that started at the end of 2017 after the "ViaSalaria" experience and thanks to the DIST department, contact Luca Lazzarini (luca.lazzarini@polito.it) or visit the webpage: |  |
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Students from the Politecnico and the University of Tokyo at work in Hongo Campus, Tokyo. (photo: M. Santangelo) | Meeting a young farmer in Nishi-Tokyo. (photo: G. Cotella) |
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Final presentation in Nishi Tokyo, Tanashi Municipality (ph.: M. Santangelo) | Final presentation in Nishi Tokyo from the students of the University of Tokyo and of the Politecnico di Torino. (ph.: M. Santangelo) |
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Students and professors from Tokyo University and Politecnico di Torino. (photo: A. Murayama) |
"Pre-visioni sul Mai. Progetti e prospettive a confronto" is an exhibition that collects works on the Luigi Einaudi Campus (CLE) and surrounding areas of students of the MSc in Architecture for Sustainable Design and of the BSc in Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning. The planners' contribution focused on the campus and its relationship with the district. Planning students involved were from the Studio "Programmi integrati di sviluppo locale e rigenerazione urbana" and from the "Sociologia Urbana" course. The exhibition, held in the CLE premises, will be open from March 12 to March 16, 2018. For more info, please click on the image on the right. |  |
 | This Seminar on brownfield revitalisation is the occasion for comparing US and EU processes of regeneration from
a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Prof. Tzoumis, past- Fulbright
at Politecnico and currently Professor at the DePaul University (IL), will illustrate her applied
experiences in environmental policies in US. Starting from her background in US
Department of energy, US Senate, and national labs. The seminar will be held on March, 26 at the Castello del Valentino. For more info, please click on the image on the left. |
On Thursday the 1st and Friday the 2nd of February 2018 the international symposium "Urban Landscapes in High Density Cities" will be held in Torino. The symposium is a joint event organised by the Politecnico di Torino and the National University of Singapore. |  |
On Thursday, the 14th of December 2017, at 4pm in room 7VM, the seminar "Gli strumenti di finanziamento pubblico a servizio delle politiche di sviluppo locale" will be held. The meeting will see the participation of L. Muller and P. Romero, President and Director of the consultancy Chintana srl (www.chintana.it), a firm that works in the field of territorial planning and local development. The implementation of social and economic development initiatives, in a moment of recession, calls for local authorities to work according a programming rationale to get European and national funds. The capacity to access those funds is based on planning related competences and instruments: - territorial analysis - strategic programming - debate and cooperation Chintana will present cases and experiences related to such competences and instruments. |  |
 | On Thursday, the 23rd of November, at 4PM in room 7VM, in the framework of the course "Mobilità / Sistemi insediativi" (2nd year of the BSc in Territorial, Urban, Landscape and Environmental Planning), a seminar has been organised to present the new Regional Plan of Mobility and Transport (to be approved by the Piedmont Region). Arch. Olga Quero, of the Transport Planning Sector of the Piedmont Region, and Arch. Guido Baschenis, of the Territory and Landscape Sector of the Piedmont Region, will present the process that has brought to the Regional Plan and its coherence with the Regional Territorial Plan and the Regional Landscape Plan. |
Two seminars will be organised in the framework of the Erasmus + initiatives promoted by prof. Cassatella for the internationalisation of the School of Planning and Design:
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 | Conference: Energia e clima, la chiave per il futuro. Le costruzioni in legno (in Italian) 19.10.2017, h. 14.30-19.00, Room 1V (not in the Salone d'Onore as previously reported), Castello del Valentino Aim of the conference is to reflect on goals of environmental sustainability, energy efficiency, sound-proofing and safety on building sites for wooden buildings, to also understand how these goals may have a territorial dimension. |
A.Y. 2017-2018: Interdisciplinary Welcome Week On Monday the 2nd of October the first teaching period of the new cycle of the BSc in Territorial, Urban, Landscape and Environmental Planning will start. During the first week a series of meetings, initiatives, walks and lessons will introduce new students to their university degree environment. Beside, the programme of the Interdisciplinary Welcome Week (all activities will be in Italian). Here the detailed programme of the workshop: "Gli attori del governo del territorio". |  |
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framework of the European Heritage Days 2017 (23-24 September 2017), promoted
by the European Council and the Italian Ministry for Cultural Assets and
Activities and Tourism on the theme “Culture and Nature”, the works or students
of the Landscape and Territorial Planning Studio of the Politecnico di Torino
(MSc in Territorial, Urban, Landscape and Environmental Planning, a.y.
2016/2017) will be presented. The exhibition and related seminar are titled
“Cultura e Natura”, the Archaeological Site of Libarna. |  |
Two of our MSc students, Erica Mangione and Karl Kraehmer, will present the work in progress for their master theses at the IGOT - Istituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, in Lisbon. This seminar has been organised after their Erasmus + stay in Lisbon, at the Universidade de Lisboa and has been made possible thanks to the hospitality of prof. Margarida Queiròs. |  |
In the framework of the activities promoted by the School of Planning and Design, prof. Sebastian Macmillan (University of Cambridge) will hold a workshop titled "Working collaboratively with others". The workshop will take place on June, the 6th, h. 9:00-11:00 in room 7VM (via Morgari, 36). |  |
In the framework of the initiatives of the School of Planning and Design and the course of History and Criticism of Culturall Heritage the book "La scoperta della città antica. Esperienza e conoscenza del centro storico nell’Europa del Novecento" (eds. Davide Cutolo and Sergio Pace) will be presented. |  |
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Outcomes of the Landscape and Territorial Planning Studio (academic year 2016/2017, Italian curriculum) will be presented in a public exhibition in Ovada, on the 12th of May, 2017. Local stakeholders and members of the "Territori da vivere" project will be attending. Download the flyer here. |  |
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Field trip in Trento: "Territorial development and urban regeneration in the Trento Province", 30-31
January, 2017. This field trip has been organised in the framework of the "Territorial and Strategic Planning" unit (held by Prof. Brunetta). Info here. (photo: Franco Visintainer) |
2016-2017: SEMINAR "A park is a Park, is an Opportunity", 19.12.2016, room 4VM In the framework of the international initiatives of the School of Planning and Design the seminar "A park is a Park, is an Opportunity", organised by prof. Cassatella, has been held. Professors Knorr-Siedow and Fuhrmann from BTU Cottbus (Germany) will be the main speakers. Details in the flyer (click to open). |  |
CAREER PERSPECTIVES: First event On the 12th of December 2016 the first event to have our students to meet private firms interested in offering job opportunities has been held. The first company has been LIDL, one of the major retail company in Europe (LIDL Italia won the prize for Best Large Workplaces in 2016). 93 students took part to the meeting, many of them also involved in the following interviews for the position of Junior Real Estate Developer. |  |
SEMINAR ON TEMPORARY URBANISM 19.01.2017, Sala della Caccia Castello del Valentino The seminar will focus on a recent trend in contemporary urban areas that is often debated as a way to better involve citizens in the definition of urban and rural transformations. Guest speaker is prof. Angelo Bertoni (Aix-Marseille Université, France), together with professors Cassatella, Salone, Santangelo and PhD student Camilla Guadalupi. |  |
SERIES OF SEMINARS 2016-2017: Cities and territories between challenges and problems As a joint initiative of the "Environment and Territorial Sociology" and "Urban and Territorial Geography" a series of seminars has been organised.(flyer). Seminars are open to anyone interested to participate. |  |
WORLD TOWN PLANNING DAY Online Conference 2016 It is possible to follow online the International Conference on Urban Planning that will take place on the 8th of October. Details here. |  |
9° BIENNAL OF LANDSCAPE, Barcelona (Spain) Selected works for the 9° Biennal of Landscape are online. Works by our MSc students are displayed for the Politecnico. Works by our MSc students are displayed for the Politecnico. |  |
Here some pictures from the First Interdisciplinary Welcoming Week (photos by Marco Zappulla e Francesco Fiermonte). It is possible to see more geotagged pics here: http://130.192.43.132/welcome/ |  |
The 2016-2017 programme for the welcoming initiatives for freshmen of the Bachelor degree in Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning. Info here. |  |
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2015-2016: THIRD FILM FESTIVAL "Perspectives from the city margins" The third film festival "Perspectives from the city margins" will be held from the 28th of April to the 26th of May 2016. The festival has been organised by Spunto Collettivo, a students' association, funded by the Politecnico and sponsored by the DIST department, AlterPOLIS and the "Visioni Fuori Raccordo" Film Festival. Info: |  |
2015-2016: SEMINAR "An urban regeneration project in Ankara: Cermondern" The seminar, held on the 3rd of May 2016, saw the participation of prof. Bahar Gedikli, guest of the DIST department in the framework of the ERASMUS + mobility.Here the flyer. |  |
2015-2016: FIELD TRIP in Milano, Brescia, Piacenza (photo by Lorenzo Attardo) |  |
