AESOP Young Investigator
Training Programme 2019
REGIONAL PLANNING AND DESIGN FROM THEORY TO PRACTICES
Kick off meeting | 10th June 2019

Florence, Italy
• Department of Architecture of the University of Florence
• ACRI | Associazione di Fondazioni e Casse di Risparmio Spa (ACRI)
• Association of European Schools of Planning – AESOP
• AESOP Young Academics

YOUNG INVESTIGATOR TRAINING PROGRAM 2019
REGIONAL PLANNING AND DESIGN, FROM THEORY TO PRACTICES

KICK-OFF MEETING | 10th June 2019
Santa Teresa Building, room 401
Department of Architecture, University of Florence
via della Mattonaia 8, Florence

Thanks to a financial contribution of the Associazione di Fondazioni e Casse di Risparmio Spa (ACRI) 20 research awards have been provided for 20 young researchers to participate in the 2019 AESOP
“Planning for Transition” international conference to be held in Venice from 12 to 15 July 2019 and to spend one month before the Aesop 2019 Conference as a visiting scientist at one of the 8 leading Italian departments participating in the network.
The objective of the “Young Investigator Training Program - YITP” is to promote scientific research and collaboration among internationally-recognized research institutions and to encourage the mobility of young scientists. In particular, the scholarships are designed to support the participation of young researchers, working in research centres abroad, in internationally-recognized research seminars and conferences organized by Italian research institutions. The ultimate purpose is to enable young researchers to establish and consolidate relationships with Italian research centres, with the aim of developing common research projects.

PROGRAMME

9.30 – 10.00 | Participant welcome and registration

10.00 – 11.00 | The AESOP Young Investigators Training Program 2019: introduction and welcome
Saverio Mecca, Dean of the Department of Architecture, University of Florence | Valeria Lingua, Assistant professor of Urban & Regional Planning, Department of Architecture, University of Florence | Giancarlo Cotella, Politecnico di Torino | Lucia Nucci, Roma Tre University, Italian Representatives in the AESOP Council of Representatives (CoRep) | Francesco Musco & Laura Fregolent, IUAV, Aesop Congress 2019, Local Organisers Committee

11.00 – 11.30 | Regional design: theory and practices
Keynote speech: Verena Balz, Chair of Spatial Planning & Strategy, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

11.30 – 11.45 | Coffee break

11.45 – 13.30 | Regional design: the Italian way (1)
Luigi Dei, Rector of the University of Florence
Giuseppe De Luca, Valeria Lingua, Carlo Pisano & Elisa Caruso,
University of Florence
Roberto Sega, Switzerland
Amir Shakibamanesh, Iran

Angioletta Voghera, Nadia Caruso & Benedetta Giudice
Politecnico di Torino
Camilo Vladimir De Lima Amaral, Brasil
Parveen Kumar, India
Simone Tulumello, Portugal

13.30 – 14.30 | Lunch buffet

14.30 – 17.30 | Regional design: the Italian way (2)
Francesco Domenico Moccia, Emanuela Coppola & Alessandro Sgobbo, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Che Amat Rohayah, Malaysia
Muhammed Rahman Shafiq-Ur, Bangladesh
Rahul Tiwari, India

Paola Viganò, Lorenzo Fabian & Luca Velo, IUAV
Cecilia Furlan, The Netherlands
Hope Hui Rising, US
Yuting Tai, The Netherlands

Angela Barbanente & Laura Garassini, Politecnico di Bari
Rozana Darwich, Lebanon
Antonio Raciti, US

Patrizia Gabellini & Giulia Fini Politecnico di Milano
Álvaro Clua Uceda, Spain
Hope Magidimisha Hangwelani, South Africa
Sabrina Sposito, Germany

Maurizio Carta, Daniele Ronsivalle & Barbara Lino, University of Palermo
Carmelo Ignaccolo, US
Satya Maia Patchineelam, The Netherlands

Giovanni Caudo, Mauro Baioni, Federica Fava & Nicola Vazzoler, Roma Tre University
Caterina Francesca Di Giovanni, Portugal
Ioanna Katapidi, UK

17.30 – 18.00 | Conclusion
Valeria Lingua, Assistant professor of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Florence
Verena Balz, Chair of Spatial Planning & Strategy, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands