International PhD Summer School
HERITAGE AND DESIGN
Architectural Preservation, Design and
Planning in World Heritage Cities and Landscapes

Mantua, Italy
REGISTRATION DEADLINE | Rolling, until all places are filled
•  DAStU | Department of Architecture and Urban Studies
• UNESCO Chair | UNESCO Chair in Architectural Preservation and Planning in World Heritage Cities, Politecnico di Milano, Mantua Campus

The PhD School will be held at the Mantua Campus, Politecnico di Milano.

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PROGRAMME
The International PhD Summer School is open to about 30 PhD Students from Politecnico di Milano, and other Italian and foreign PhD Programmes interested in participating to this initiative. The School proposes an activity related to curricular PhD Courses corresponding to 5 ECTS credits. It is organized in a design workshop and a series of thematic conferences in which different disciplinary contributions will be considered and useful for the development of research methodologies, with lecturers, designers and scholars of international relevance. The design experiments will be developed in Mantua urban context and will be conducted by design groups supervised by tutors and visiting professors. The design activity will be verified during an intermediate and a final review by boards consisting of professors of the Politecnico di Milano and other Universities.

TOPIC
The “Heritage and Design” International PhD Summer School proposes different disciplinary approaches for the development of intervention strategies applied to the historical city, to its morphological fabric, to its places and monumental buildings. The School aims to open the way for new research methodologies focused on the relationship between architectural and landscape pre-existing conditions in historically layered environments, and design actions of urban recomposition and renewal. The considerations about the insertion of new urban functions or architectural structures in the study areas will address concretely the relationships among conservation, adaptation, transformation of places in order to enhance the built heritage. The case-studies will be chosen in collaboration with Mantua Municipality, and will be focused on some emblematic contexts of historical and modern transformations in the city. They will be centered on three different themes and scales: “architectural recovery and urban reorganization”, “recomposition of open spaces”, “landscape design”.

FACULTY
• Teaching coordinators and tutors from the Politecnico di Milano.
• International visiting professors, who will work with groups of PhD Students for a day and, upon completion, will hold a conference.
• Critical reviewers from the PhD Programmes of the Politecnico di Milano and other Universities. 

REFERENCE COMMITTEE
• Federico Bucci, Vice rector for Mantua Campus
• Gabriele Pasqui, Head of the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies
• Barbara Pernici, Director of the School of Doctoral Programmes
• Ilaria Valente, Dean of the School of Architecture and Society

PhD SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
• Luca Basso Peressut, PhD Coordinator in Architecture, Urban and Interior Design
• Carolina Di Biase, PhD Coordinator Preservation of Architectural Heritage
• Pierfranco Galliani, PhD Coordinator in Architectural and Urban Design
• Paola Pucci, PhD Coordinator in Urban Planning, Design and Policy
• Rossella Salerno, PhD Coordinator in Territorial Design and Government
• Sara Protasoni, Board member of Mantua Unesco Chair

SCIENTIFIC SUPERVISOR
Pierfranco Galliani
TEACHING COORDINATOR AND ORGANIZATION
Luigi Spinelli

VISITING PROFESSORS
• Francisco José Barata Fernades, Universidade do Porto (P)
• Luis Basabe Montalvo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (E)
• Christine Dalnoky, Atelier de Paysage Dalnoky, Oppède (F)
• Pia Durisch - Aldo Nolli, Durisch + Nolli Architetti, Massagno (CH)
• José Ignacio Linazasoro Rodriguez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (E)
• Gonçalo Sousa Byrne, Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos, Lisboa (P)

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
• Mantova International Summer School website
• Cassandra Cozza | tel. +39.02.23992603 | mob. +39.346.8843958
PhD Programme in Architectural and Urban Design 
Politecnico di Milano | Department of Architecture and Urban Studies | via Bonardi 3 - 20133 Milano
E | drpau-dastu@polimi.it 

Unesco Chair Secretariat
• Paola Talò
E. | unescochair.mantova@polimi.it
Mantua Campus
Politecnico di Milano | piazza d’Arco 3 - 46100 Mantova