Students in this seminar will acquire knowledge concerning in particular: - ability to know how to orient in specialist historiography on issues related to heritage protection; - ability to reach an articulated understanding of the relationship among contemporary society, memory, and heritage; - understanding of contemporary issues concerning cultural heritage law and landscape protection and ability to orient themselves among administrative law tools relating to public-private collaboration and partnerships in the field; - to understand the complex relationship among urban growth (linked to constantly changing needs), the architectural and urban heritage, and the memory of places. Furthermore, students will acquire critical skills, including: - elaborate a reasoned critical bibliography; - orient themselves in the contemporary debate and as to the regulatory framework of the subject; - publicly present their critical thinking; - discuss among peers based on an awareness gained on a scientific basis. Such knowledge and skills will be acquired during the seminar through different types of activities that will develop different kinds of skills: ex-cathedra lessons in a limited number and to be considered as methodological orientation, individual study, reading of texts belonging to a recommended and possibly implementable bibliography, specific research exercises, public presentation of the research and study activities carried out individually, seminar discussions, etc. Students will develop critical and interpretative skills on issues related to heritage, active protection, management, and legislation in this regard.

The knowledge of the history of modern and contemporary architecture is considered a fundamental prerequisite along with the basis of the theory of restoration. These disciplines are taught in the academic three-year basic cycle. Preconditions about urban sociology and administrative law are not required.

The seminar focuses on the notion of Cultural Heritage, the notion of active protection, the spatial-temporal dimension of heritage, its connections with the human and natural ecosystem, the concepts of place, and sustainable development. Cultural Heritage is a multifaceted notion that includes different readings and needs. It also requires various and integrated expertise. The workshop, thus, aims to provide some theoretical and analytical knowledge and tools on the heritage matter under the historical, sociological, and legal main perspectives with a specific focus on relationships between cultural heritage and social innovation. In this time, theoretical and methodological heritage knowledge will be strongly connected to the active role of communities and individuals in heritage preservation. For this purpose, the workshop deals with Cultural Heritage understandings by leading students to a shared reflection on the past, the collective memories, our shared heritage, and its uses and impacts on the current society. It will especially consider different kinds of heritage especially related to the built environment, cities, and territories developments, such as architectural, urban, rural heritage, and cultural landscapes. Both tangible and intangible heritage will be included. The development of instruments of shared administration and the principle of horizontal subsidiarity will also be tackled. In particular, topics covered will concern complex concepts such as territory, space and place, local development, participatory democracy and public participation, community action and cultural heritage, commons, and horizontal subsidiarity. The aim is understanding a territorial context starting from its observation and the voice of public and private subjects, associations, and individuals. Legislation relating to Cultural Heritage will be analyzed to give future professionals of the territory and the environment a systematic basis of reference for orientation within the legal and institutional framework of the territory's government and, in particular, the legislation of cultural heritage and landscape.

The seminar includes intermediate choral discussions: therefore, attendance is recommended. Each student's exercise must be produced following the deadlines given by the instructor during the semester.

The workshop includes three modules that will provide parallel teachings and activities from historical, urban sociological, and legal perspectives. The historical path (2 credits module) aims to build knowledge on Cultural and Natural Heritage and other heritage types, their understandings, and practices within a spatio-temporal context. It will link some main themes of societal challenges to heritage understandings to create the basis for a shared understanding of heritage in a critical and historical dimension. The past has been continuously constituted in the present in many ways, and we’ll explore some of them. For this purpose, we’ll focus on building a glossary of cultural and natural heritage. We’ll shape how we can shape sustainable heritage understanding. Some lessons and basic bibliography will be provided as a starting point. The class will co-create a contribution to this knowledge. The urban sociology path (2 credits module) has the vocational goal to learn how to set up a collaborative process by which local actors could be able to take care of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Social innovation is primarily intended as an innovation of the administrative law in support of local communities active to take care of cultural heritage in the perspective of the general interest. The legislation path aims to present and comment on the main legal institutions for the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage and landscape that are of educational and operational interest for students of Architecture courses, in the light of the complex institutional dynamics of relations in this field among State, Regions,local authorities on one side and formal and informal groups of active citizenship on the other side.

1. UNESCO, Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, 1972. Available at https://whc.unesco.org/en/conventiontext/. (Last accessed on September 30, 2021). 2. Ashworth G. J., and Graham, Brian (eds.), Senses of Place: Sense of Time, Routledge, London, 2016 3. Bandarin, Francesco and van Oers, Ron. The historic urban landscape: managing heritage in an urban century. John Wiley & Sons, Sussex, 2012. Available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119968115 (Last accessed on September 30, 2021). 4. Bollier D. and Helfrich S. (2019) The insurgent Power of Commons, New Society Publisher: https://eu.boell.org/sites/default/files/free_fair_and_alive_book.pdf 5. Ciaffi D. “Sharing the Commons as a ‘New Top’ of Arnstein’s Ladder of Participation” in Built Environment vol. 45, 2019 p. 162-172 6. Further teaching material published on the moodle platform.

Exam: Compulsory oral exam; Individual graphic design project;

Oral test: 50% of the evaluation is based on the outcome of the oral test (one question on the seminar program and the reference bibliography). 50% of the evaluation is based on the exercise. Expected duration of the final interview: 15 minutes. The exercise assigned at the beginning of the course foresees the first part to be tackled in small groups (max three people) and, subsequently, conducted independently. There are intermediate deadlines that must be met: on these occasions, the exercises in progress will be corrected by the teacher and discussed in a public seminar. Contributing to the final judgment is the evaluation of attendance at lectures, seminars, and other laboratory activities that are considered necessary conditions for the successful development of the planned activities. Even if part of the seminar activity may be carried out in groups, the final evaluation is individual and considers also revisions and discussions in itinere, intermediate evaluations, and individual participation during the whole duration of the seminar. The final interview and the evaluation of the exercise are aimed at verifying the acquired skills: knowledge of the most specific literature related to the themes of heritage protection, critical skills, ability to write a short scientific essay, the dialectical ability to exposition a problem related to the program carried out in the classroom. Honors will be awarded to the students who will be able to integrate the three different parts of the course.

In addition to the message sent by the online system, students with disabilities or Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) are invited to directly inform the professor in charge of the course about the special arrangements for the exam that have been agreed with the Special Needs Unit. The professor has to be informed at least one week before the beginning of the examination session in order to provide students with the most suitable arrangements for each specific type of exam.