EXPERIENCING NANTES. A PSYCHO-ARCHITECTURAL APPROACH TO URBAN DESIGN

(Practical activities, Webinar, Frontal teaching, Experimental laboratory, Workshop, Trips and excursions)

  • Language: ENGLISH
  • Campus: SPAZIO ESTERNO AL POLIMI, AULA VIRTUALE
  • Enrollment: 20-05-2022to hour 12:00 on
    31-05-2022
  • Subject area: Soft skill, personal and career development|Tools|Tech and society
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Teacher in charge
PIGA BARBARA ESTER ADELE
Credits
3
Hours to attend
40
Max. number of students
7
Selection Criteria
CV; university career advancement; previous knowledge of the subject of the workshop.
 
Topics:
augmented reality, interdisciplinary teamwork, international workshop, urban design
Tag
Environment and land planning, Smart cities and smart building, Architectural and urban design, Environmental and social sustainability, Social, Urban studies

Description of the initiative

IN BRIEF
Period \ June 20-25, days 5 (excluding travel days)
Main subjects' field \ Psychology, Urban planning, ICT
Number of students involvedat the receiving institution benefiting from the teaching program \ 20 (max)
Number of teaching hours \ 40 (including experiential walks, lessons, and classwork design workshops)

PROGRAM
ONLINE 14.06.2022 (9:30 - 11:30)
Preliminary workshop
The online workshop is designed to introduce the summer school activities and define the theoretical and methodological context, in order to provide all the participants with a unified framework for the interdisciplinary approach. Organizational and logistic issues are discussed, including the instructions for the software applied during the summer school.

Day 1
15:00 - 16:00 Welcome & "Introduction to experiential walk"
16:00 - 16:30 Groups creation
16:30 - 19:00 Experiential walk during the evening
19:00 Pizza break along the river

Day 2

09:00-12:30 Traditional experiential walk 
13.30-14.30 Classwork (individual work on the person's walking experience) 
14.30-17.30 Imagine the sound experience
17.30-18.30 Classwork, sharing the representation with other participants

Day 3
9:00 - 11:00 Blind/thermal/acoustic/smell walk IN PARALLEL "Augmented soundwalk"
11:30 - 12:30 Lesson "Theoretical lesson about the sensory experience" 
13:30 - 18:30 Group Classwork (representing the sensory experience)

Day 4
9:00 - 11:00 Blind/thermal/acoustic/smell walk IN PARALLEL "Augmented soundwalk"
11:30 - 12:30 Lesson "Soundscapes, sound walks and urban design"
13:30 - 18:30 Group Classwork (representing the sensory experience)

Day 5
9:00 - 9:30 Lesson "The experience of places: theoretical and methodological aspects in a psychological perspective"
9:30 - 10:30 Presentation of the results of City Sense 
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Group Classwork (representing the sensory experience)
13:30 - 18:30 Group Classwork (representing the sensory experience)

Day 6
9:00 - 10:00 Setting up the final presentation 
10:00 - 12:00 Final Presentation by the participants and public discussion

CASE STUDY

The current building of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) of Nantes and its neighborhood will be the case study of this workshop. The CHU Nantes will move to a new site in 2026 and its current site is from now on part of a large-scale participative debate on the renewal of the city center. In particular, this site is strategic for the city of Nantes from both an urban (articulation of the city-center with the Loire riverbank) and architectural (the renovation of this remarkable after WWII building) perspective.

EXPERIENTIAL WALK & ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS
  • Subjective experience (experiential walk with the app City Sense)
  • Climate conditions (Coolscapes Microclimate Cart)
  • Blind walk (guided walk excluding sight to focus on other sensory elements)
  • Augmented soundwalk (walk with ECHO app for an alternative auditory experience)

Duration

dal June 2022 a June 2022

Calendar

ONLINE
14.06.2022 (9:30 - 11:30)

ONSITE
20.06.2022 > 24.06.2022 (all day)
25.06.2022 (9:00 - 12:00)

Note

FUNDS
The subscription to the teaching activities for the selected participants is free of charge.
The activities are supported by the Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme with the following funds for each participant:

  • Individual support: 70euro/day (max 6 days)
  • Travel expenses: 275 euro
  • TOTAL: euro695/selected participant

Each participant should be equipped with a laptop and a mobile device with headphones (please, let the organizers know in case of difficulties in having the devices for the workshop)

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