Interdisciplinary approach

Subject areas are: Built Environment; Economics and Strategy; Law; Human Sciences; Art and Design; Communication.
Each area unit comprises of different subjects. Each unit is usually 11 hours and takes place in a period of two weeks, on Fridays (morning and afternoon) and Saturdays (only morning).
Workshops and training period take place on remaining week-days, and are to be defined, or will occur after the end of lectures.
Some lectures comprise remote learning. Foreign students have the possibility to attend Law area through equivalent courses at the University of their country of origin.
In all the subject areas, a strong integration between humanistic and technical perspectives is found: the programs aim to develop the ability to understand institutional roles and socio-economic dynamics, emphasizing individual skillset creation. The course includes the contribution of experts,

AREAS AND SUBJECTS

BUILT ENVIRONMENT AREA
Area Manager Prof. Benedetto Antonini

Architecture and Urban Planning: The project for existential space on architectural and urban scale. Urban planning. The new paradigms for programming, planning and urban and architectural design in the era of Coronavirus and climate changes. People-Smart Sustainable City and Smart Sustaibable Village.
Built environment: Transformation and consumption of the environment. Means and ways for the representation of these transformations. Environmental pollution. Renewable energy. Environmental impact evaluation. Environmental indicator systems. Emergency Habitat Workshop. Landscape science. Building Information Modeling BIM. Design management.

ECONOMY AND STRATEGY AREA
Area Manager Prof. Angelo Caruso di Spaccaforno and Prof. Giampiero Bambagioni

Urban Economics. Macroeconomics and analysis of Real Estate markets. Estimating methodology: Appraisal and Economic evaluation of Projects. Evaluation of architectural and environmental resources of cultural interest and public assets. Life Cycle Assessment. Value Analysis.
Real Estate Finance. Real Estate funds and other financial vehicles including SIIQ, Crowdfunding, Real Estate Owned Company (Reoco). Program management and building project management. Urban marketing. Smart Sustainable City. Management and Governance.

AREAS AND SUBJECTS

LAW AREA
Area Manager Atty. Elisabetta Cicigoi

Economic and Legal Framework: UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), New Urban Agenda, UNECE Policy Framework for Sustainable Real Estate Markets. Public Private Partnerships (PPPs).
Difference between traditional and legal systems. Planning and construction: urban planning. Contractual relations management.
Environment: Resource management and soil protection. Cultural and Environmental heritage and their protection in the current international scenario.

HUMAN SCIENCES AREA
Area Manager Prof Gabriella Gilli

Psychology of urban living. Cultural anthropology. Urban sociology. Ethics of social relations. Cross-cultural business etiquette.
Quality of living and sustainable urban development.

ART AND DESIGN AREA
Area Manager Prof. Santiago Caprio

Urban design. Visual communication. Modeling tools for the cities matching sustainability with style. Psychology of the language of arts.

COMMUNICATION AREA
Area Manager Prof. Lucio Fumagalli

Methods and tools in urban communication. Urban Identity: interdisciplinary laboratory. Big data analysis for the management of urban transformations. Smart Cities, Smart Villages and Open Data.