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H2020 SMARTDEST project
Cities as mobility hubs: tackling social exclusion through ‘smart’ citizen engagement
(ENG) The H2020 SMARTDEST project “Cities as mobility hubs: tackling social exclusion through ‘smart’ citizen engagement” involves eleven research centers and universities and aims at mapping, understanding, and framing on a theoretical level the processes through which new forms of mobilities (such as tourism and mobile dwelling) are reproducing new forms of social exclusion, imbalances, conflicts, and other ambivalent externalities in urban...
Permanent temporariness in the post-earthquake
The ordinariness of the provisional condition between emergency and reconstruction in Central Italy
Terre del Monviso
Scenari strategici per un territorio metromontano
Il territorio del Saluzzese e delle Terre del Monviso è caratterizzato da un dinamismo socioeconomico e istituzionale che ne fanno un laboratorio interessante per l’approfondimento di attività volte a costruire iniziative integrate di sviluppo sulla base di processi negoziali e strategici. La ricerca ha lo scopo di definire la base conoscitiva per l’attivazione di un processo inclusivo e strategico per...
Next Generation Urban River Park
Valentino urban park enhancement strategy
Parco del Valentino is one of the city’s best-loved parks and a place where the city’s collective memory is condensed. This is the place where Christine of France chose to build her royal residence in the 17th century, enlarging and transforming a river villa overlooking the Po. It is also where the International Exhibitions of the late 19th and early...
Severe Acute Respiratory Infections Treatment Centre
A collaboration with the World Health Organization
The project is based on the collaboration between the Future Urban Legacy Lab and World Health Organization (WHO) with the aim of supporting Helpdesk COVID-19 Severe Acute Respiratory Infection(SARI) Health facilities design Support Network. Specifically, the work will concentrate on: (a) Technical project design for SARI health facilities according to information provided; (b) Specific technical support upon request on existing ...
Fare Spazio
Re-thinking school spaces under latent pandemic conditions
The prospect of returning to attending school in person after the first lockdown phase in Italy called into question existing school buildings spaces: the management of activities in class, the in- and out-flows of people, the organisation of daily breaks or the movements of students inside and outside buildings are just some of the many challenges posed by the current...
Tailor-made housing
How to improve housing affordability and adequacy through innovation of the cohousing model.
