Seminar
Drawing on the research accounts of three DIST PhD students, the seminar will explore water-sensitive design at
various scales. From the Water Sensitive City to the individual resident’s psychological perception of risk,
via infrastructure failures at neighbourhood level. Drawing on experiences from Europe and Latin
America, the seminar will discuss the spread of water-sensitive practices, resilience in river areas and the
design of spaces for rainwater in areas prone to flooding.

Book launch
The book Drought: Thresholds and Escape Routes in the Fight Against Climate Change in China by Andrea E. Pia explores the
growing water supply crisis through an ethnographic study of a rural
minority community in China threatened by climate change.

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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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The talk will summarise the developments at the EU level until today and provide insights how the research projects results are being used.

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Beini Ma’s research explores the environmental, physiological and behavioural mechanisms at play in complex urban waterfronts. The case studies are Shichahai in Beijing and Parco del Valentino in Turin.

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Experts from academia, the third sector and government will share best practices and pilot projects to combat social marginalisation and the housing crisis. FULL’s contribution will be presented by Erica Mangione, who will be attending in her capacity as both a researcher and an activist for Vuoti a Rendere. The objectives include the promotion of social housing, the restoration of existing buildings and the implementation of measures to support the most vulnerable groups.

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Air pollution was the first environmental phenomenon to emerge as a public issue to be addressed politically and legislatively as early as the middle of the last century. It therefore plays a key role in the complex relationship between anthropogenic transformations of the environment, the environment itself, and our awareness of our role as humans.
Even today, different interests converge and clash around air pollution and, in particular, around the issue of air quality, giving rise to complex political dynamics that directly involve citizens, as well as technological devices, scientific practices and institutions.

Air pollution is therefore an area in which to observe and experiment with ways of monitoring, managing and transforming our environment and our daily practices that may have broader relevance than the issues raised by climate change. This is also because air pollution has complex relationships with the dynamics of climate change and, in particular, global warming.

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What defines cities today is the paradoxical co-existence of often invisible threads of ecological fragility and social vulnerability, on one hand, and the conspicuous and rapid high-tech urban developments (smart technologies, AI-driven planning, IT infrastructures), on the other.
The agenda of the Invisible Cities Lab at Politecnico di Torino is motivated by the desire to trace the entanglement of technological, urban, and ecological networks that define the current conditions in cities and thus to unpack design and urban planning process in their complex social ecologies.

The event is organized by the DAD department, and session 1—The Ecological Crisis and the Practice of Architects—features a discussant who collaborates with FULL in all three cases.

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The Future Urban Legacy Lab presents the second meeting of the cycle Radici e orizzonti: dialogues on neopopopulation, which focuses on the topic of new internal migration trends in Italy, in particular of the younger generations.
The event will see the presentation of three books: “La Tornanza”, “Migrazioni Verticali” and “Voglia di Restare” by authors Antonio Prota and Andrea Membretti. Following this, the day’s theme ‘Tornare, restare, migrare’ will be discussed by Filippo Barbera and the authors.
La Tornanza (A. Prota, F. R. Albano, 2024), Migrazioni Verticali (edited by A. Membretti, F. Barbera, G. Tartari, 2024) and Voglia di Restare (edited by A. Membretti, S. Leone, S. Lucarelli, D. Storti, G. Urso, 2023) deal with the theme of the chosen movement of people towards inland and mountainous areas from different perspectives, regardless of the different reasons and collective trends that push people to move to the highlands. The texts well express that growing ‘desire for the mountains’ on the part of those who already live there and those who choose to live there at the basis of the new forms of neo-population.

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The Just Transition represents the path to addressing global challenges related to climate change and technological transformations, ensuring that the transition to a sustainable future is equitable, inclusive, and attentive to the needs of all communities.
The FULL center, building on a range of ongoing or recently completed research, offers a dialogue to glimpse this path.

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The meeting is proposed as an opportunity to examine and discuss housing and urban planning policies at a regional and local level over the last twenty years, through a comparative perspective between the cities of Bologna, Milan, Turin and Padua involved in the PRIN PNRR 2022 LINUS project – Living the university city: student housing as drivers of changes. The programme includes institutional and academic speeches, together with a round table that will bring together representatives of the four working groups of the cities involved.

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