PERIOD: NOVEMBER - JULY In the most recent years, housing history has proved to be a fruitful field of exchange between scholars with different competences and an exceptional testing ground to experiment with methods and practices of historical research. The course aims to observe the multifaceted panorama of studies that, in recent years, have dealt with the history of 20th century collective housing, interweaving different scales and cultures of the project and adopting different perspectives, methodologies, and approaches. The course aims to analyze and discuss the most recent and significant trends (i.e. the use of microhistory, the growing interest for comparative history and transnational studies, the return of typological studies ...), which have contributed to question methodologies and sources of the historical studies on collective urban housing. Students will be asked to study and experiment research methods related to the history of architecture, to the analysis of the built environment, to the study of the practices of appropriation and transformation of the space, to the study of individual and collective memories, in order to investigate the history of postwar ordinary residential landscape. Students will be involved in a field-work based research exercise conducted on one or more representative case studies, the choice of which will be the subject of a specific moment of the seminar activity. The course will be taught in English.