The research project LINUS – Living the university city: student housing as a driver of changes, addresses these issues by focusing on the dynamics of student housing as a driver of urban change, where university and city attraction policies and the related growth of the student population put pressure on local housing systems.

This volume collects the proceedings of the public conference Vivere la città universitaria, L’abitare studentesco come generatore di trasformazioni, held in Padua on 31 May 2024. The conference was organised as part of the Project of Significant National Interest (PRIN PNRR 2022) entitled LINUS – Living the University City, financed by the European Union – NextGenerationEU through the Ministry for Universities and Research (MUR) with PNRR funds.

Each chapter opens with speeches by the session coordinators, with analysis and positioning in national and international academic and policy literature and debates. The second part of each chapter is completed by contributions from conference guests. In line with the investigative framework of the project, in fact, the seminar fostered the confrontation between a multidisciplinary group of academics, with experts in the field of student housing and public decision-makers, articulating the discussion around three main axes: university systems, the city – understood as a public and local decision-making system, and the student body as a whole.

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Specifically, HACKERARE M0N0P0L1 is an expansion (consisting of new cards, tokens, and markers) which, when used together with the classic version of Monopoly, transforms the latter into a game that combines a playful dimension with an educational/informative component. The ‘hacking’ operation affects both the software and hardware of Monopoly (i.e., both the rules and components such as the ‘Chance’ and ‘Community Chest’ cards), making the game dynamics more relevant to the real processes affecting contemporary cities. For example, different starting conditions are established (some players start with only a modest amount of money, others have a lot of money and a property with a house on it, others own a chain of hotels, and so on); by rewriting the “Chance” and “Community Chest” cards, events are proposed that reflect realistic situations or public policies (for example, processes such as studentification or privatization of real estate assets); by “redefining” certain squares on the board, elements are introduced that allude to the real structure of the real estate sphere (for example, the residual presence of public housing) and the social sphere (for example, each time a player completes a lap and passes GO, they receive a different salary depending on their starting condition).

How to obtain the game

HACKERARE M0N0P0L1 is a non-profit project, created for educational and training purposes and protected by a Creative Commons Licence 4.0 BY-NC-SA. It is distributed free of charge in two forms:

1- the various components of the game (i.e. the new cards, the new rulebook and the ‘Small Dictionary of Housing Issues’ booklet) are freely downloadable from this page and can be printed with a simple home printer.

2- a limited number of packs of the game have been produced, available to those who intend to use it for educational or training purposes (e.g. secondary and high school teachers, university lecturers, activists* of social movements for the right to housing). Anyone wishing to receive a free box of the game (while stocks last; new boxes will be printed through the crowdfunding campaign indicated below) is invited to contact: francesco.chiodelli@unito.it

Anyone who would like to receive a pack of the game for individual use can participate by donating to the crowdfunding campaign: https://sostieni.link/38980

The printed pack of HACKERARE M0N0P0L1 contains: 6 people cards; 6 discrimination cards; 6 tokens; 4 ‘public housing’ markers; 1 ‘building abuse’ marker; 20 probability cards; 20 contingency cards; 3 ‘Contingency or probability?’ cards; rules; ‘Small dictionary of the housing issue’.

DOWNLOAD HERE THE FILES to print and play the game at home.

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Episode 4 – Participation and active citizenship

Participation is actually a spectrum of practices, which are also defined as a “ladder” or “tree of participation” to represent its various forms: from information to citizen consultation, to more active forms of collaboration and greater responsibility in decision-making processes. Listening to the voices of those who want to contribute to tomorrow’s change is useful for achieving the transitions that our cities and territories need.

• Texts by Erica Mangione (FULL), Cristian Campagnaro, Giorgia Curtabbi, and Martina Leo (PoliTo for social issues).
• Voices of Cristian Campagnaro, Giorgia Curtabbi, and Martina Leo from PoliTo for social issues, Claudio Jampaglia

Zeta _ Cities in Transition is a podcast by FULL – Future Urban Legacy Lab, the research center on cities and territory at the Polytechnic University of Turin, produced for the ZetaLab project of the City of Turin, funded by the Piedmont Region, to promote participation and active citizenship among young people.

• Coordination Mauro Fontana, Erica Mangione, Manuela Ronci.
• With the participation of PoliTo per il Sociale and Lucio Beltrami.
• Post-production and editing Claudio Jampaglia at Radio Popolare studios.
• Music by Gaetano Nicosia.
• Graphics by Giuseppe Mangiola.

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Episode Three – The Right Transition

The just transition is not a destination, but an ongoing process that requires placing socio-spatial justice at the heart of urban transformations, guiding every decision on spaces, resources, and rights.

• Lyrics and lead vocals Erica Mangione
• With contributions and voices from young participants in the course Challenges for the Contemporary City.

Zeta _ Cities in Transition is a podcast by FULL – Future Urban Legacy Lab, the research center on cities and territory at the Polytechnic University of Turin, produced for the ZetaLab project of the City of Turin, funded by the Piedmont Region, to promote participation and active citizenship among young people.

• Coordination Mauro Fontana, Erica Mangione, Manuela Ronci.
• With the participation of PoliTo per il Sociale and Lucio Beltrami.
• Post-production and editing Claudio Jampaglia at Radio Popolare studios.
• Music by Gaetano Nicosia.
• Graphics by Giuseppe Mangiola.

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The first meeting of the series Roots and Horizons: Dialogues on New Population Focuses on the theme of new internal migration trends, particularly among the younger generations in Italy. The documentary Fare Paese (Making a Country), produced by the Frange Mobili and La Bandita collectives in the southern Apennines during the summer of 2023, traces the possible life trajectories, sometimes counter-trend, of young people from six villages in Calabria, Basilicata, and Puglia. Many choose to stay or return to their territories of origin, intersecting metro-philia with new models of life, community, and forms of care to build a country.

Laura Saja, Antonio De Rossi, Mauro Fontana, and Loris Servillo discuss this with the authors.

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The paper aims to contribute to shedding light on the state of the (post-)pandemic housing market, focusing in particular on the supply available to the so-called ‘off-market generation’ and asking to what extent the combination of the economic-financial crisis and the pandemic crisis has increased the barriers to access to housing for this group. In order to do so, the case study of Turin and the municipalities in its metropolitan area is analyzed, with respect to which the availability of private housing for sale and rent is investigated, read in connection with some relevant characteristics of this stock (e.g. location, price, and square footage). The reference year is 2021, ‘suspended between past and future’.

After having presented the analysis of data on the availability of homes for rent and for sale – which are presented mainly in the form of maps – this report concludes with two fictitious but absolutely plausible examples of ‘typical households’ belonging to a lower-middle income bracket, looking for a home in the city of Turin and its hinterland. By investigating the private supply available in relation to the needs of these two families, it is possible to understand, in concrete terms, the problems and prospects of housing accessibility in the (post-)pandemic period in and around Turin.

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Followed by a presentation of the book “Perifantaferie” by F. La Rocca

Kontiki is the first physical headquarters in Italy of the Fridays For Future movement.

Talk on home and energy with researchers Nadia Caruso, Francesco Chiodelli, Enrico Fabrizio, Maria Ferrara, who bring the FULL centre’s project ‘Poveri noi – la povertà energetica delle famiglie italiane’ (Poor us – energy poverty among Italian families) to the fore.

To follow presentation of the book ‘Perifantaferie’ by F. La Rocca

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