Department
DIPARTIMENTO DI ARCHITETTURA E STUDI URBANI
Description
MUST Master in Temporary Uses is a postgraduate training course on temporary uses. Widespread in the practices of public administrations and other urban actors (from real estate developers to activists of land animation activists), temporary uses can be a helpful tool useful to support processes, projects, and intervention strategies for urban and territorial transformation at different scales.The Master is organized into three parts and developed in modules addressing the use of temporary uses respectively for the reuse of residual buildings and spaces residual buildings and spaces, in large urban projects, for the redevelopment of landscape and public space, for post-disaster situations, and in transformations due to big events. The 13-month training program consists of lectures and discussions, exercises and individual study, visits, and comparisons with professionals, organizations, and territorial realities working with temporary uses, a workshop, and an internship. The Master provides multidisciplinary skills multiple: from territorial and community analysis to the construction of intervention strategies and tactics to site-specific and adaptable design. With the aim of providing the means to know, evaluate critically, and design temporary uses appropriately and effectively and to train different professional profiles, including reuse agents, experts, designers, activators, and managers of temporary uses in the cases outlined. The potential employment outlets are in public administrations, businesses and real estate, animation, community activation, consultancy, employment in socio-cultural entrepreneurial contexts, or placemaking contexts of various kinds. The Master is aimed at graduates and individuals already in the world of work, particularly technicians and civil servants active in Public Administration, Private companies, or freelancers.
Educational project
MUST - Master in Temporary Uses is an advanced Politecnico di Milano postgraduate course. It trains experts in temporary uses and provides the appropriate skills to new professional figures to design, plan, implement, and manage temporary uses in different situations. It is aimed at graduate students and already working individuals, particularly those working in the Public Administration, the third sector, the private sector, or freelancers. The 13-month training offer is structured around several questions, like How to activate projects to reuse abandoned spaces temporarily? How to accompany long and uncertain regeneration processes of large urban areas? How can temporary uses start new imaginaries or test new uses? The Master is organized into three parts, subdivided into six modules, each of them facing the design of temporary uses in relation to: the reuse of residual buildings and spaces; the large urban projects; the regeneration of landscape and public space; post-disaster situations and urban transformations due to big events. The main training objectives of the Master's course are: to learn about the different declinations of temporary uses; to learn how to critically evaluate situations and contexts in which it is valuable and appropriate to proceed with temporary uses; to have the basic skills to initiate temporary use projects. This will be done through various activities (lectures and discussions, exercises and individual study). Particular emphasis will be placed on visits and meetings with professionals, organizations, and territorial realities that experiment with temporary uses; and on the workshop and the internship that will be held and will allow to have a design and implementation experience or in-depth study at institutions, professional studios, private companies, associations and NGOs in the forms to be defined.
Requirements
The Master's Course is for candidates with a Master of Science's Degree or equivalent qualification obtained abroad in - technical- scientific field of Architecture, Planning; - Social-Humanistic field in the field of Anthropology, Protection of Cultural Heritage; - economic-environmental field; - communication and marketing in the field of the promotion and enhancement of existing resources; Graduates in related disciplines as well as graduates with professional experience in the same subjects will also be eligible. For foreign candidates, equivalent qualifications in the respective study systems will be considered.
Location
Milan
Faculty and staff
Director: MARIA ANTONELLA BRUZZESE
Co-Director: ISABELLA SARA INTI
Department/School/Institution
POLIEDRA
VIA G. COLOMBO, 40
20133
MILANO
Contact person
Dott.ssa ILARIA ROSARIA SEBASTIANELLI
+390223992925
formazione-poliedra@polimi.it
Application documents
DR 2714 MU2 MUST_ENG.pdf
DR 2714 MU2 MUST.pdf
DR 2714 Rettifica MU2_MUST.pdf
DR 2714 Rettifica MU1_MUST_ENG.pdf