Collaborative & Adaptive Cities

The research group explores the role of urban planning in a time of socio-economic and environmental crisis that has shifted priorities toward urban and territorial regeneration, sustainable development, and adaptability—including in response to rapid and unexpected changes in context, such as the coronavirus pandemic and extreme climate events.

The urban and environmental commons, of which our territories are particularly rich, represent the starting point for rethinking urban life from a perspective of adaptation and preparedness in the face of ongoing changes. In this context, the quality of public and social spaces, practices of social innovation, and mobility as an enabling dimension of spatial justice become central.

CARTA Lab carries on research and research-action in its local territory according to an interdisciplinary approach that is open to considering the collaborative and process-oriented nature of urban and territorial transformations.

In this context, urban design and planning acquire strategic significance as tools for guiding, experimenting and verifying scenarios of shared transformation of the city and the territory.

The research group works on both national and international projects as well as in collaboration with local authorities and communities to develop practices of urban reuse and transformation to promote approaches and tools for the shared care of urban commons and the implementation of urban planning tools.

Scientific Head for the Department

Valentina ORIOLI

Structured professors

PhD

Researcher