Doctoral programme in architecture, city and design
track regional planning and public policy (three
years program) seat Palazzo Badoer S. Polo 2468 30125 Venezia information 041 257 1426/1845/1865/1886/1787 infodottorati@iuav.it coordinator: Francesca
Gelli vice-coordinator
Guido Borelli |
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academic board
Universitā Iuav di
Venezia
Guido Borelli, Giulio Ernesti, Laura Fregolent, Francesca Gelli, Anna Marson,
Marco Mazzarino, Simonetta
Morini, Francesco Musco, Stefano Stanghellini, Carla
Tedesco, Stefania Tonin, Margherita Turvani
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>> track presented by Francesca
Gelli
presentation
PhD research and training programme in Regional Planning and Public Policies –
which first started in the Academic year 1990-91 – focuses on the transversality of urban policies in the context of
contemporary complex and heterogeneous urban societies, thus bringing to the
fore the need for the adoption of a cross-cutting approach to urban policies
analysis, at the same time calling attention to the much-needed integration of
and between different forms of knowledge (ordinary, professional, scientific,
interactive ...) as well as the exploration of different planning fields.
Internationally-oriented, it encourages
research studies both in European and extra-European countries, with a growing
interest in the transition countries.
The Programme aims to broaden the
comprehension of and facilitate innovative elaboration on the policy approach
(theories and methods) as part of urban and territorial policies and planning
processes’ studying.
At the analytical level, a policy approach is
characterized by the attention to:
- the social and interactive construction of
territorial plans and policies (a multiplicity of agents may be
involved/mobilize themselves in policy inquiry and in problem setting dealing
with the elaboration and implementation of policies);
- the problem of agents’ enactment; what
are the favourable conditions for joint action (motivations that agents have to
act; expected and unforeseen outcomes of actions; agents’ networks;
interdependences among agents as well as the effects produced by their
actions). Theoretical and methodological contributions are to be derived from
various disciplinary domains (sociology, anthropology, political sciences,
history, economics, architecture and urbanism...);
- the observation of existing planning
activities and practices, and especially the multitude of agents included and
intervening in them, thus calling into question who actually qualifies for
assuming particular planning competences (disciplinary, institutional, social)
in a pluralized public action;
- the mechanisms for producing “useful
knowledge”, with the aim of facilitating more encompassing learning
processes;
- tempo, time, timing in a planning process
creation and development.
Some main research questions (to be
studied/investigated with the aid of appropriate methodologies and research
tools – single case study, comparative case analysis; ethnographic
observation – and within a solid theoretical framework are:
a) planning institutions: their functioning
and innovative potentials and actions, on different territorial scales;
b) problems and conflicts related to the
definition of “public interest”; the pluralisation of “the
public”;
c) policy-making process: theories and
practices of policy design and implementation; rationality models used in and
kinds of knowledge needed for decision making and implementation (variety of
information sources and analytical methods employed in the processes of
government policy making and social problem solving);
e) policy making practices; plural practices
of space use and territory construction conducted by many actors; their
interdependence, outcomes, regulation.
The programme is designed to provide a
comprehensive training for carrying out research studies and acquisition of expertise in main systems of spatial planning and urban policy-related
areas (such as sustainable local development policies; climate changes and
mitigation strategies; urban regeneration programmes; urban and rural
development; infrastructural policies; environmental and social conflicts; place-based and participatory approaches to urban policy design and
implementation; social innovation; ethnicity, multiculturalism and policy
responses to diversity; etc.), but it is also
flexible. Students can benefits from studying such
topics, phenomena which they find particularly thought-provoking and also, by
designing the research path which best meets their interests, under the
supervision of well-known scholars and researchers (in some cases external
member of the academic board).
Proposed activities
1. the first year: seminar series, involving Italian and foreign scholars- visitors
who are invitedto discuss constitutive theoretical
and methodological issues, and key concepts in urban studies; critical survey of planning and public
policy literature which is to be undertaken by each PhD candidate; research
activities aiming at improving methodological skills; the identification and
design of individual research programme;
2. the second year: analysis of a policy case,
recent or ongoing, developed by the PhD candidate usually during a research
period abroad, in collaboration with foreign universities or other
organizations, with relevant experts and scholars support; definition of thesis
statements and general structure of the dissertation;
3. the third year: composition, writing and
discussion of the doctoral dissertation.
The PhD candidates’ participation in
international and national scientific conferences where the
their written papers are presented, as well as the publications or
submissions of articles for publication in scientific journals (peer reviewed)
are strongly encouraged during the first and second year and requested during
the third year.