The Lab at FULL

FULL (Future Urban Legacy Lab) is an interdepartmental center of the Politecnico di Torino, operating in the field of urban and territorial transformations. It analyzes the processes of physical, economic, and social modification, and it provides design visions at different scales to support decision-making processes.

FULL, thanks to its multidisciplinary community of affiliates, aims at integrating the ”Urban Legacies” – which represent, as a whole, the anthropic and natural assets embedded within the urban territory – into new development visions, able to foster the debate about the future of the city.

FULL challenges the traditional conceptions of urban space. It promotes the debate about new interpretations for the contemporary urban transformation phenomena, to deal with the main issues posed by two opposite tendencies: on one side the rapid urbanizations and, on the other hand, the diffuse obsolescence and decommissioning of extensive parts of the city fabrics, resulting from the crisis of the traditional socio-economic models.

FULL aims to merge the knowledge of the past and present conditions of the urban territories with the capability to project new strategic visions of the future, able to support the dialogue among decision-makers and stakeholders of the urban transformations.

FULL can rely on a manifold and multifaceted methodology of research, that reflects the richness and the variety of the scientific sectors that compose its scientific community. The research activities are based on cross and interdisciplinary methods; collaboration and experimentation; internationalization and comparative methods; theoretical and practical approach.

FULL bridges the competences of several departments of Politecnico di Torino: DAD, DAUIN, DENERG, DET, DIATI, DIGEP, DIST, to create a multidisciplinary task force able to deal with the most challenging “wicked problems” of contemporary urban society.

FULL provides a broad range of competencies from various PoliTO Departments, single UniTO researchers, and international scholars committed to the field to dialectically reframe issues of a socio-technical nature, overcoming the tech/humanities divide and fostering the intersections of past and future visions in an experimental stance accustomed to work with partial and adjusted insights.