460519 - 15 ECTS

460523 - 6 ECTS The Territory Forums aim to create spaces for debate and collective construction of knowledge around pressing issues associated with policies, practices and processes of contemporary urbanization, with a view to providing students with operational tools for analysis and action in the territory.

The Territory Forum - Public Space intends to deepen the importance of public space in the contemporary city and reflect on the main themes and challenges facing its qualification, project and design, in the various scales and contexts of the city. Thus, the syllabus to be addressed seeks to delimit a wide range of themes, which, intersecting, can be understood as specific themes to be developed from the point of view of project methodologies and strategies. An attempt will be made to frame each of the themes in a broad reading of the city, promoting reflection and discussion both around urban areas that result from recent urbanization (more diverse, extensive and discontinuous) and in more central and consolidated areas, not forgetting, in each case, the search for the valorization of its territorial, environmental and landscape dimension.

The structure of this training unit is based on a set of thematic sessions, organized into three distinct but complementary phases. In the first phase, we seek to start from a more general reading, from a historical and theoretical framework on the evolution and importance of public space at different moments in the history of the city. In the second phase, an approach to the importance of defining the program and consequent diagnostic tools on the potential, quality and performance of different types of public spaces is envisaged. Finally, in the third phase, progressively, it is intended to deepen a set of thematic approaches that currently have been marking and revealing their urgency in the processes of urban requalification and public spaces in the main European cities.

In parallel with the visions and experiences more linked to project practice that will be transmitted by invited speakers for the different sessions, each session will seek to show examples and experiences of interventions in public spaces that, together, establish a theoretical- practical and project references for each of the topics to be addressed in each session.

460522 - ECTS

460520 - 6 ECTS

The trivialization of the use of the word “territory” erroneously suggests that its meaning is clear and self-explanatory. In fact, the situation is very different: the meanings of the territory as a concept are lost (as in common language) in the lack of rigor and in the diversity and contradiction of what is said about it.

Territory is a highly sensitive political device; a permanent social construction interpreted and problematized in an unstable way. More than a fact or a set of facts, the territory is a subject, a matter under discussion that includes the positions of the actors involved and the scientific/disciplinary approaches highlighted.

This UC will seek to reflect on what is said when talking about territory, as well as on its modes of production and representation, exploring operative ways of looking at the phenomena of contemporary urbanization. To this end, it starts from the recognition of the extensive anthropization of the Earth in which the city-country dichotomies; center-periphery; rural-urban; natural-artificial no longer make sense. This condition forces us to accept and understand the complexity of (in)visible processes, agents and phenomena, which crosses infinite scales, times and disciplinary fields.

Acting in this context is “an act of 'unfolding' that weaves from one point to another, so many relationships (...). That's it, actualizing potency, or becoming active: life and its prolongation depend on that.” (Deleuze, 1988). For this reason, the limited vision of the project-that-creates the 'new' is contradicted, and thus freezes the territory in a 'finite' idea, for a project-that-transcribes and catalyzes infinite relationships and possibilities. How to act like this? How to think like that? What tools? How to represent this relational unfolding? are the issues we try to approach.

460525 - ECTS
The Territory Forums aim to create spaces for debate and collective construction of knowledge around pressing issues associated with policies, practices and processes of contemporary urbanization, with a view to providing students with operational tools for analysis and action in the territory.

The Territory - Environment Forum will focus on the discussion of topics associated with biophysical structures, environmental sustainability, climate management, ecosystem services, ecological structures and the role of non-built elements in the organization of urbanization and landscape. It is intended to explore urban planning and design practices more capable of responding to the increasingly pressing challenges of environmental sustainability and climate change, as well as, more generally, responding to the need to act in territories of extensive occupation where the structuring of the territory can no longer be dependent on building, which is a minority there.

In this sense, the Territory - Environment Forum will seek to:

* Understand and discuss existing and latent environmental systems and their structuring role in landscape organization, in topological, functional, morphological and cultural terms.

* Identify, explore and debate regulatory policies, planning instruments and management and intervention practices in the territory, in their relationship with environmental systems. Particular attention will be given to the way in which the emergence of new challenges associated with environmental sustainability and climate change have been altering these policies, instruments and practices. New ways of acting that these amendments call for will be explored and debated.

* Explore and discuss planning, management and intervention practices at a local scale, in the search for operational ways of acting in contemporary territories that take environmental systems and non-built elements as structuring parts of the organization of territories.

* Clarify the conditions of relevance of the terms of urban and territorial cohesion, and ways of combining spatial systems in the face of differentiated contexts and often unpredictable dynamics, namely with regard to social and significant conformities.

* Assess the contingent nature of urban planning, by observing how the project recognizes and represents the physical and social reality that it intends to change.

Given the nature of the course, focused on continuous training and the updating of knowledge and instruments of technicians, the Forum of the Territory - Environment will have, in each new edition of the course, a specific theme, aiming to cover, in great depth, the main emerging issues, both in the academic debate and, above all, in urban design and planning practices.

460524 - ECTS

460521 - 6 ECTS

Os territórios onde trabalhamos resultam da sobreposição de sistemas, tempos e transformações de diversas escalas que se complementam e integram de forma transversal.

Aquelas intervenções tidas por bons exemplos são normalmente destacadas pela sua imagem e qualidade espacial. Mas os processos que viabilizaram a sua materialização tendem a permanecer pouco conhecidos e estes são, muitas vezes, processos longos, complexos, interdisciplinares e essenciais para o sucesso das intervenções. A aproximação a estes processos oferece uma aprendizagem valiosa para futuros projectos e para o conhecimento disciplinar.

A U.C. tem por objectivo a apresentação, análise e debate de uma ou mais intervenções selecionadas em função do seu contributo para o tema do Laboratório. Cada intervenção será reconhecida através de visita de estudo e do contacto com os seus principais intervenientes que permitirão compreender todo o contexto e os processos que a viabilizou.