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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.

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-11^th 2020 (3CFU).

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Spunto Collettivo, a students' organisation, is organising a field trip in Berlin from the 8th to the 12th of May 2019 (4 overnight stays included).
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.com
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".

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).

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".

Call for Participation to the Drinkscape activities for Graduate students in Yubune (Japan) and Cella Monte (Italy).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Joint Workshop in Tokyo with Hosei University and Sci_Arc (US), July 2018, 16-21

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.

For more details, click on the image on the left.

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).

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

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.

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:

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.

Final presentation in Nishi Tokyo, Tanashi Municipality

Final presentation in Nishi Tokyo from the students of the University of Tokyo and of the Politecnico di Torino.

Students and professors from Tokyo University and Politecnico di Torino.

This Seminar on brownfield revitalisation is the occasion for comparing US and EU processes of regeneration from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

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.

In the 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.

The seminar will take place on Monday, the 29th of May 2017, h. 10:00-13:00 in Room 2VM (Via Morgari, 36).

Download the flyer here.

Guest speaker is prof. Angelo Bertoni (Aix-Marseille Université, France), together with professors Cassatella, Salone, Santangelo and PhD student Camilla Guadalupi.

As a joint initiative of the "Environment and Territorial Sociology" and "Urban and Territorial Geography" a series of seminars has been organised.

Details here.

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.

07-09 April, 2016: field trip in regeneration neighbourhood in Milano (San Siro and Giambellino), Brecia (Carmine and San Polo) and Piacenza (Ciano). The field trip has been organised by Spunto Collettivo and funded by the Politecnico di Torino and the DIST department.

(photo by Lorenzo Attardo)