scientific committee

Università Iuav di Venezia

Matteo Basso, Guido Borelli, Laura Fregolent, Francesca Gelli, Giovanna Marconi, Anna Marson, Francesco Musco, Elena Ostanel, Giuseppe Piperata, Carla Tedesco, Stefania Tonin

other universities

Giovanni Allegretti (Università di Coimbra), Francesca Cognetti De Martiis (Politecnico di Milano), Marco Cremaschi (Università di Roma Tre) Daniel Cefaï (EHESS-Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales), Giovanni Laino (Università Federico II di Napoli), Patrick Le-Gales (Université Sciences Po), Francesc Munoz (AUB, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona), Gabriele Pasqui (Politecnico di Milano), Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (University of Westminster), Gilles Pinson (Université Sciences Po), Brigida Proto (EHESS-Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales)

experts

Pier Luigi Crosta, Giulio Ernesti, Liliana Padovani, Domenico Patassini, Margherita Turvani

PhD students

Gianluca Bassanese, Nadia Sara Bregozzo, Fabio Carella, Linda Danieli, Gianmarco Di Giustino, Amedeo Fadini, Elena Ferraioli, Medea Ferrigo, Filippo Maria Faini, Cosimo Ferrigolo, Francesco Galli, Carlotta Giordani, Anna Giusti, Pietro Legnani, Giovanni Litt, Alessandra Longo, Stefania Marini, Nicolò Molinari, Jorge Geovanny Mosquera Suarez, Giovanna Muzzi, Mersida Ndrevataj, Erika Palmieri, Naomi Pedri Stocco, Sabrina Righi, Valentina Romero Silva, Federico Sartori, Silvia Sivo, Eugenia Spinelli, Olga Tzatzadaki, Francesco Ulivi

PhD students with Iuav grants in doctoral courses of national interest

Alberto Bonora - Università degli studi di Roma “La Sapienza”

Federica Gerla - Università degli studi di Roma “La Sapienza”

Scientific research in urban and regional planning and policies aims to develop a strong understanding of the theoretical and methodological frameworks and to apply a 'policy approach' to various urban and territorial actions, such as plans, programmes, projects and more or less integrated actions. This approach focuses on the processes (political, administrative, technical, social) to define the problems that the policies propose to deal with, (re)define the "public interest" character of the issues dealt with, interact with the different actors that are mobilised and/or are involved in the construction and implementation of the policies, and the intentional and non-intentional outcomes of the various policies activated. It is examined with reference to:

- the theory and practice of the design, implementation and evaluation of public policies and plans at different scales and in relation to different issues (from different urban policies to territorial heritage and landscape, from local development to the management of change processes at a global scale)

- the participation of citizens in the construction of policies and the treatment of conflicts

- land use practices, production of common goods and their regulation.

The transversality required by these fields of action - if compared to traditional disciplinary areas - is supported by an orientation to interdisciplinary research practices.

As for the specific teaching and research activities that complement the transversal training offered by the Bembo Writing Workshop, the course of study for PhD students in Urban and Regional Planning and Policies is roughly structured as follows.

1. First year: programme of lectures and seminars from January to July, including a module on theories, one on methodologies and a third on the presentation/discussion of research; in the meetings dedicated to the 'research question', it is clarified that defining a research question does not mean choosing a topic, but a key to the discussion that will determine the path of the thesis, and indications are given on the various steps that are useful to verify its solidity. Some special sessions are devoted to the bibliographical essay required for the year, discussing different examples of how to explore a topic by using the different bibliographical resources available.

For admission to the following year, students must present at the end of the year a bibliographic essay (state of the art) on a subject agreed with the relevant Scientific committee.

2. Second year: PhD students are generally involved in setting up and progressing their dissertation research, which often entails a period of study abroad; discussion of progress is planned through interaction on topics, specific methods and issues with the Scientific committee, and if relevant, the organisation of seminars dedicated to addressing specific issues relevant to the work programme.

To be admitted to the following year, a state of progress of the thesis is required to clearly discuss the research question, the methodologies adopted, and the work programme to complete the thesis.

3. Third year: the PhD students work on the conclusion of the research activities and the thesis. There is at least one meeting dedicated to the intermediate discussion of the progress of the thesis, which at the end of the year must be delivered in the form of a complete draft in all its parts to the scientific committee.