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Academic Year 2025/2026 - Teacher: CARLO COLLOCAExpected Learning Outcomes
It is intended to provide a critical and updated - sociologically oriented - review of the main architectural and urban planning issues that have affected the city and its transformations in recent decades. The teaching will enable the following to mature: (a) a reasoned and critical definition of socio-territorial problems; (b) a sociologically oriented capacity for analysis with reference to future urban scenarios and evolutionary trends; (c) a greater awareness of the contribution of the sociological approach to sustainable and participatory land design.
Course Structure
Teaching will focus on lectures, seminar activities on some specific topics, study of research cases and possibly the development of individual and/or group projects. In addition to the oral presentation of the topics covered, the teacher will make use of IT and audiovisual media.
Required Prerequisites
Knowledge of the socio-territorial approach in sociology, main theories and methods.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not mandatory. There are no intermediate tests. Group/individual works are planned for the in-depth study of certain topics; these works will constitute an integral part of the exam. Participation in group work is subject to attendance at teaching.
Detailed Course Content
The following topics will be the subject of the course: (a) Cities, emotions and spaces of the imaginary; (b) Cities, landscape and responsibility for architecture; (c) Models of urban regeneration: practices of social innovation and integrated land development; (d) Socio-cultural and spatial dimensions of participatory planning.
Textbook Information
- A. MAGNIER, L'agire architettonico, in A. Magnier e P. Russo, Sociologia dei sistemi urbani, il Mulino, Bologna, 2002, pp. 207-241.
- E. GRANATA, Placemaker. Gli inventori dei luoghi che abiteremo, Einaudi, Torino, 2021.
- C. COLLOCA, Città, immigrati e forme dello spazio relazionale, in SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE, fascicolo 133, 2024, pp. 14-29, https://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/articolo/75401
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The theories and methods that underpin design action | A. MAGNIER, L'agire architettonico, in A. Magnier e P. Russo, Sociologia dei sistemi urbani, il Mulino, Bologna, 2002, pp. 207-241. |
| 2 | City, landscape and collective values essential for democracy | S. SETTIS, Architettura e democrazia. Paesaggi, città, diritti civili, Einaudi, Torino, 2017, pp. 129-164. |
| 3 | Social innovation and architectural innovation | E.GRANATA, Placemaker. Gli inventori dei luoghi che abiteremo, Einaudi, Torino, 2021. |
| 4 | Multicultural urban scenarios | C. COLLOCA, Città, immigrati e forme dello spazio relazionale, in SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE, fascicolo 133, 2024, pp. 14-29, https://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/articolo/75401 |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
The evaluation will be the outcome of a number of factors, namely active participation in classroom teaching, the critical capacity highlighted, the quality of group and/or individual work assigned by the teacher and the outcome of the final test.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
(A) Contemporary city models: cases compared.
(B) The characteristics of the main participatory strategies for the social planning of the territory.
(C) Social action and land design.
(D) Land, territoriality and local development.
(E) Territorial marketing and valorisation of local resources.