Sustainability of urban landscapes - La sostenibilità ambientale dei paesaggi urbani

The Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST) organized an international workshop with the participation of Italian and international expert researchers. The objective was to investigate methods, tools and indexes for promoting the sustainability of cities and urban landscapes. The teaching staff was a multidisciplinary group of four departments (DIST, DENERG, DIATI and DAD) of the Politecnico di Torino, professors and researchers from the University of Maryland, the Senseable City Lab of Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, the Ryerson University (CA), the University of Southern Denmark SDU, and the Idiap Research Institute in Switzerland.

Working within a multidisciplinary group of teachers and students enabled more learning channels to be activated.
The cycle of conferences was divided into nine days of seminars (5 hours each on Thursday afternoon). The seminars focused on the environmental sustainability of cities and building heritage and on the infrastructure in the urban environment. Each seminar was organized by a group of teachers who will also present some case studies. In addition, a virtual tour was organized at the Green Pea in Turin, the first Green Retail Park dedicated to the theme of Respect.

The international joint workshop was proposed by Guglielmina Mutani from DENERG Department. Other professors and collaborators of the Politecnico di Torino involved were: Grazia Brunetta, Angioletta Voghera, Ombretta Caldarice, Francesco Fiermonte from DIST Department, Roberta Ingaramo from DAD, Marco Bassani from DIATI, Valeria Todeschi, Silvia Santantonio, Simone Beltramino from DENERG. Other external professors involved were: Jerome Kaempf and Roberto Boghetti from Idiap Research Institute, Dimitrios Goulias from University of Maryland (USA), Umberto Fugiglando from Senseable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT (USA), Umberto Berardi from Ryerson University (Canada), Nicola Tollin from University of Southern Denmark SDU.

The initiative was supported by the Responsible Risk Resilience Center - R3C of Politecnico di Torino.