Milano Arch Week is a week of events and debates on urban transformation and the future of the cities, under the artistic direction of Stefano Boeri. The festival is promoted by the City of Milan, the Politecnico di Milano and La Triennale di Milano, in collaboration with the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation. It will take place between 21st and 26th May. Milano Arch Week will again be honored with the presence of great names on the international scene, conversations with young architects, urban planners, landscape designers, opinion leaders; books presentations, installations, workshop and performances. Milano Arch Week is also music, theatre, guided itineraries of architecture in Milan, and Vesparch, urban tours riding a Vespa. In response to the themes explored by theXXII Triennale Internazionale di MilanoBroken Nature: Design takes on Human Survivalcurated by Paola Antonelli (you can find more detailed information on theonline platform),Milano Arch Week 2019, now at its third edition, will unfold the relationship betweenAnthropocene and Architecturewithin and across the urban contexts worldwide.What does it mean to repair the interrupted relationship with Nature, understood as a complex interweaving of environmental, social, cultural, economic issues, within the current condition of planetary urbanization?Through a polyphony of voices across the fields of architecture, arts, philosophy, science, engineering,Milano Arch Week 2019will investigate cities and architecture as systems of flows and networks; cities and architecture as integrated systems of artifice and nature; cities and architecture as places continuously shaped by a 'contemporary plurality' of subjects, individuals, trajectories; cities and architecture as places of material and immaterial production; cities and architecture as places where the human specie has the opportunity to reverse the disastrous effects of climate change.

Goals:

• Gaining knowledge on subjects and issues related at different level to architecture, city planning, construction engineering, design;

Tools:

• Attending Milano Arch Week events

Evaluation criteria:

• Milano Arch Week 2019 "passaport" completion:

Students attending some of the Arch Week initiatives will be recorded on a folding card that will be available on the days of the event at the Politecnico di Milano and the Triennale. During some events of the program the student will be able to accumulate stamps in a predefined number based on the event. A table will be defined that will indicate the events mentioned above and the respective value (in number of stamps). The achievement of 2 credits of Action 2 Milano Arch Week will take place with the acquisition of a number of stamps that will be announced in the coming weeks .

dal May 2019 a May 2019