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Friday 12 June | Castel del Giudice
The day begins with an exploration of tools for the local area: the first panel will examine the legacy of the PNRR and future planning strategies for small towns, whilst the second will focus on ‘invisible infrastructure’, new economies and the essential services that make life in these towns possible.
In the afternoon, theory gives way to action with a Serious Game session, and concluding with a moment of celebration and sharing at the Community Warming Party.

09:30 Registration
09:45 Official greetings

10:00 Panel Next Gen EU Legacy
11:45 Panel The (In)visible Infrastructure

13:15 Light lunch

14:30 Serious game
18:30 Community Warming Party

Saturday 13 June | Gagliano Aterno
The forum moves to Abruzzo to tackle one of the most complex challenges: the right to live in inland areas. The “New Housing Models” panel will bring together institutions, academics and third-sector organisations to explore cooperative and innovative housing models.

10:00 Registration
10:15 Official greetings

10:30 Panel New Housing Models

12:30 Light lunch

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A detailed overview will be provided of the key characteristics of the short-term rental sector (from its prevalence to its economic performance, from its geographical distribution to the profiles of those managing the listings), illustrating how it has evolved over the years and outlining the situation in various Italian cities. Against the backdrop of the findings from the research, a discussion will take place on the main regulatory approaches in Italy and Europe, exploring their limitations, potential, constraints and effects.

Free admission. You can follow the conference online via this link.

Contact: full@polito.it

On this page, you can find further information about the research underpinning the conference, and you can download the reports containing the data as they become available.

Research groups participating in the project and due to speak at the conference:

• BARI – Mariella Annese, Fabrizio Di Alessandro, Gianfranco Viesti (Politecnico Bari)
• BOLOGNA – Alessandro Bozzetti, Silvia Bartolucci (UniBologna)
• CAGLIARI – Abir Benfradj, Michele Campagna, Laura Tolu (UniCagliari)
• CATANIA – Eliana Fischer, Teresa Graziano, Laura Saija (UniCatania)
• FIRENZE – Marco Bellandi, Alice Calamandrei, Giulia Chiara Ceresa, Valentina D’Ippolito, Federico Martellozzo, Camilla Perrone, Massimo Tofanelli (UniFirenze)
• GENOVA – Lorenzo Barbanera, Emanuele Cinti, Igor Costarelli, Niccolò Morelli, Francesca Zagagni (UniGenova)
• MILANO – Valeria Marina Borodi, Silvia Mugnano, Riccardo Ramello (UniMilano – Bicocca)
• NAPOLI – Gaia del Giudice, Cristina Mattiucci (UniNapoli – Federico II), Cecilia Pasquinelli (UniNapoli Parthenope)
• PADOVA – Francesco Mauro, Lorenza Perini, Michelangelo Savino (UniPadova)
• PALERMO – Chiara Giubilaro, Marco Picone (UniPalermo)
• REGGIO CALABRIA – Benedetta Chiaro, Angelo Chiaro, Gabriella Pultrone (UniReggio Calabria)
• ROMA – Antonia Astore, Carlo Cellammare (UniRoma – Sapienza), Luca Tricarico (CNR)
• TRIESTE – Elena Marchigiani, Valentina Novak, Andrea Peraz (UniTrieste)
• VENEZIA – Matteo Basso, Gianfranco Pozzer (IUAV), Giacomo-Maria Salerno (UniSiena)

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The internationalisation of universities and the increase in the student population have an impact both on urban regeneration processes, through investment and physical transformation, and on the housing market, which is under increasing pressure due to the demand for student accommodation and competition from other forms of residential accommodation. In this context, housing is taken as a key to understanding broader urban dynamics and the conditions of a complex and potentially fragile student population, with repercussions on the right to education.

Interdisciplinary research, spanning urban planning, geography and sociology, analysed urban and university policies, local housing systems and students’ living conditions. This was accompanied by monitoring of medium- to long-term housing trajectories, supported in the case of Turin by the OSA – Osservatorio Student* e Abitare project, coordinated by Marco Santangelo (DIST) and funded by the DIST Department of the Polytechnic University of Turin, with the aim of guiding more inclusive and evidence-based public policies.

The study day is divided into two parts. The morning session (9:00–13:00) involves partner universities and national institutions in a reflection on the tools adopted in third mission and public engagement policies and on the role of universities in urban policies, with particular attention to the theme of housing.

The afternoon session (2:30–5:30 p.m.) will feature a discussion with national and international researchers on four key themes related to the transformations taking place in Italian university cities: the financialisation of student housing, studentification, political narratives of the knowledge economy, and the right to education as a right to the city.

For further information, please write to full@polito.it or erica.mangione@polito.it.

The conference is organised as part of the Project of National Interest (PRIN PNRR 2022) entitled LINUS – Living the University City, funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU through the Ministry of University and Research (MUR) with PNRR funds, in collaboration with the departmental project OSA – Osservatorio Student* e Abitare / DIST.

A general report on the day and documents presented are available on Poliflash.

The full recording of the conference is available in the section Media.

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The Torino conference will be the first of a series of annual meetings on critical legal geography. The PhD Workshop “Explorations in Critical Legal Geographies” is also an integral part of the conference: the workshop brings together 15 PhD students with a variety of backgrounds (legal, geographical, political, sociological, anthropological, urban studies), whose doctoral thesis speaks to critical legal-geographical debates. The workshop offers participants a forum to contribute to their research development in a cross/transdisciplinary manner and opportunity to create synergies across the legal-geographical spectrum.

Steering committee
Francesco Chiodelli (Università di Torino); Daniela Morpurgo (Politecnico di Torino); Giulia Massenz (Politecnico di Torino); Giacomo Pettenati (University of Eastern Piedmont); Voltaire Alvarado (University of Concepción); Tugba Basaran (University of Cambridge); Hadeel Abu Hussein (Utrecht University); Alexandre “Sandy” Kedar (University of Haifa); Austin Kocher (Syracuse University); Gail Lythgoe (University of Edinburgh); Elya Milner (Technical University of Berlin); Matteo Nicolini (University of Verona); Andrea Pavoni (University Institute of Lisbon)

Local organizing committee
Francesco Chiodelli (Università di Torino); Daniela Morpurgo (Politecnico di Torino); Giulia Massenz (Politecnico di Torino)

The conference is supported by the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning – DIST of the Politecnico and Università di Torino and the Future Urban Legacy Lab – FULL of the Politecnico.

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Subsidiarity, democracy and cooperation are the values that need to be put into practice in response to citizens’ new needs. A research volume on alternative housing strategies that explores the dynamics that have led to the current situation and presents an Atlas of European and international ‘collaborative housing’ projects. Reflections on the theme of housing, together with the research editor Silvia Cafora.

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The lecture will analyze the rising condition of displaceability as characterizing urban citizenship in the 21st century. It will focus on both material right to the urban space and resources, as well as the recent ‘digital revolution’ during which urban societies are increasingly subject to ‘algorithm governance’, with clear implications to the planning of a just city. The lecture will draw on Yiftachel’s comparative urban international research with a focus on Israel/Palestine.

Prof. Yiftachel teaches urban studies and political geography at Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba and is currently a visiting professor at Politecnico di Milano. His research focuses on critical understandings of the relations between space, power and conflict. He recently co-edited the volume “Urban Throwntogetherness in Hostile Environments” (City, 2022 Vol. 32), as well as “TheoriSE–debating urban theories from the global southeast” (ACC, Cape Town). Yiftachel is a social activist who is member of several organizations working for social justice, equality and peace.

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