Educational Activities

Lecturer: Prof. Marco Gaiani

Doctoral credits: 1, Lecture hours: 2

Activity type: Disciplinary and multidisciplinary training

Language: Italian and English

Training contents and objectives
The seminar is organised in collaboration with the referees of the University Research Assessment System (VRA) afferent to the Department of.
The aim of the seminar is to provide doctoral students with the tools and methods they need to find their way around the framework of the evaluation systems in the face of a de facto unlimited (and not always transparent) panorama of the various publishing sites and to identify, using more reliable criteria, the most authoritative and qualifying ones.
authoritative and qualifying ones. Since the scientific publication represents the main form of official communication of the scientific community, its methods and character will also be defined during the meetings.

Teaching methods: In presence

Method of assessment: Eligibility

Period and venue
1st semester,
29 January 2026, TIME AND CLASSROOM TO BE DEFINED

Registration: Please send the lecturer a confirmation of participation by e-mail before the beginning of the course.

Contact: marco.gaiani@unibo.it

Teachers: Dr. Raffella Inglese, Library of Building Engineering-Architecture

Doctoral credits: 0.5, Lecture hours: 3

Activity type: Transversal activity

Language: Italian

The module is part of the “PhD Information Literacy, Open Access & Copyright Workshop” organized in collaboration with ARPAC and the Engineering and Architecture Library, aimed at providing knowledge of the Department's libraries and their databases, the rules governing copyright for both teaching and research, and patents. Among the objectives of the module is to illustrate the new bibliographic management software (Endnote); citation databases (Web of Science and Scopus); databases for architecture and engineering (ASTM COMPASS, SAE TP; IEEEXplore). Doctoral students will also be introduced to methods of publishing research material that allow free and unrestricted access (open access). For more information, visit the website https://sba.unibo.it/[…]/information-literacy-trasversale-per-dottorandi.

Teaching methods: In presence

Method of assessment: Eligibility

Period and venue:
2nd semester (March-May 2026)
TIME AND CLASS TO BE DEFINED

Registration:Email

Contacts: raffaella.inglese@unibo.it

Lecturers: Ph.D. candidates and Ph.D.@ACP Collegium


Doctoral credits: 3, Lecture hours: 24

Activity type: Disciplinary and multidisciplinary training

Language: English

The module is part of the “PhD Information Literacy, Open Access & Copyright Workshop” organized in collaboration with ARPAC and the Engineering and Architecture Library, aimed at providing knowledge of the Department's libraries and their databases, the rules governing copyright for both teaching and research, and patents. Among the objectives of the module is to illustrate the new bibliographic management software (Endnote); citation databases (Web of Science and Scopus); databases for architecture and engineering (ASTM COMPASS, SAE TP; IEEEXplore). Doctoral students will also be introduced to methods of publishing research material that allow free and unrestricted access (open access). For more information, visit the website https://sba.unibo.it/[…]/information-literacy-trasversale-per-dottorandi.

Teaching methods: In presence

Method of assessment: Eligibility

Period and venue:
1st, 2nd semester
DATE AND TIME TO BE DEFINED

Registration: TO BE DEFINED

Contacts: matteo.cassani@unibo.it

Lecturer: Vanessa Assumma

SDS: CEAR-03/C, CEAR-12/A

Doctoral credits: 3, Lecture hours: 18

Activity type: Disciplinary and multidisciplinary training

Language: English

The course provides the PhD student with theoretical and practical knowledge of decision-supporting evaluation techniques for solving complex spatial problems involving buildings, the city, the territory and the landscape. The course programme focuses on a selection of operational research evaluation techniques, specifically belonging to Multicriteria Decision Analysis/Making (MCDA) and Multi-Objective Optimisation (MOO). Each seminar lesson will be structured in a theoretical part and a practical part dedicated to the use of these techniques using specific software. At the end of the course, the PhD student will be able to structure decision-making problems, strategically evaluate alternative options and determine the most sustainable solution.

Teaching methods: In presence

Evaluation method: Eligibility

Period and venue
JANUARY 2026, DATE AND TIME TO BE DEFINED

Registration: Please fill the form to confirm your participation by December 2025 https://forms.office.com/pa[…]NzJUSy4u&route=shorturl

Contact: vanessa.assumma@unibo.it

Lecturer: Marco Pretelli, Andrea Ugolini, Leila Signorelli, Alessia Zampini, Giulia Favaretto

SDS: CEAR-11/B

Doctoral credits: 3, Lecture hours: 12

Activity type: Disciplinary and multidisciplinary training

Language: Italian

The course focuses on the culture of protection and planning for existing heritage and aims to provide advanced knowledge on strategies and methods for enhancing and caring for heritage. HERITAGE will pay particular attention to various aspects, from the concept of cultural heritage and care as an integrated activity, in which communities play an increasingly central role, to the processes of value attribution, from protection strategies to preventive and planned conservation, from architecture belonging to widespread heritage to so-called dissonant heritage, from intangible to tangible heritage and related issues, to the transformation of heritage and strategies for its conservation and values.

Teaching methods: In presence

Evaluation method: Eligibility

Period and venue
1st-2nd SEMESTER, DATE AND TIME TO BE DEFINED

Registration: Please communicate your participation in time to the lecturer

Contact: leila.signorelli@unibo.it

Lecturer: Prof. Annalisa Trentin and Prof. Matteo Cassani Simonetti

SDS: CEAR-09/A, CEAR-11/A

Doctoral credits: 2, Lecture hours: 16

Activity type: Seminar with Study Day

PhD Coure: 2nd, 3rd year

Language: Italian, English

Contents and learning objectives:
Case studies: Bergamo, Bologna, and Florence. The seminar is interdisciplinary in nature, involving disciplines such as restoration, geography, history, aesthetics, and construction technology. The seminar takes place on two levels: 1. Fundamentals/Analysis: understanding the city as an urban form (theoretical research); Body/Space: the city as volumetric composition and spatial arrangement (typology, morphology), the city as living space, the construction of the urban place; Interior/Exterior: the city and its territory (geography); Form/content: the city and its idea (Gestalt). 2. Urban form development projects involving restoration, conservation, and transformation (design research: the construction of the urban place)

Teaching methods: In presence

Evaluation method: Eligibility

Period and venue
30-31 May 2026
DIDA - University of Florence

Registration: Please send the lecturer a confirmation of participation by e-mail before the start of the course.

Contact: annalisa.trentin@unibo.it

Lecturer: Prof. Ana Clara Moura

SDS: CEAR-12/A

Doctoral credits: 2, Lecture hours: 18

Activity type: Seminar

PhD Year: 1,2,3

Language: Italian and English

Contents and learning objectives:
The seminar aims to provide specific knowledge about available data and its use in order to generate knowledge on environmental issues. In particular, it proposes a case study on the city of Bologna, aimed at assessing the climate impacts on urban fabrics.

Teaching methods: Online

Assessment method: Eligibility

Period and venue
Semester 2
DATES AND TIME TO BE DEFINED

Registration: Please send the lecturer a confirmation of participation by e-mail before the start of the course.

Contact: anaclara@arq.ufmg.br

Lecturers: Dr. Angela Santangelo, Dr. Claudia De Luca
with the collaboration of Ing.Arch. Benedetta Baldassarre

SDS: CEAR-12/A

Doctoral credits: 0.5, Lecture hours: 4

Activity type: Disciplinary and multi-disciplinary course

PhD Year: 1,2,3

Language: English

Contents and learning objectives:
Seminar held by Benedetta Baldassarre, Architect and Engineer, who will explore the theme of rural regeneration, risk, and cultural tourism, focusing on participatory and data-driven methodological approaches.

Teaching methods: In presemce

Assessment method: Eligibility

Period and venue
Semester 1,
DATE, TIME AND PLACE TO BE DEFINED

Registration: Please send the lecturer a confirmation of participation by e-mail before the start of the course.

Contact: angela.santangelo@unibo.it

Lecturers: Dr. Daniele Pascale Guidotti Magnani

SDS: CEAR-11/A

Doctoral Credits: 1, Lectures Hours: 9

Activity Type: Seminar

PhD Year:1,2,3

Language: Italian

Contents and learning objectives:
Starting with the presentation of the recently published book Una nazione giovane: l’Italia dei Palazzi Municipali, 1861-1911 (A Young Nation: Italy's Town Halls, 1861-1911), edited by Isabella Balestreri and Marco Folin, the study day aims to investigate the forms and roles assumed by architecture and the arts in the political definition of nation states, in a period stretching from the Napoleonic era to the First World War. Thanks to contributions from experts in the field, it will be possible to compare cases and strategies implemented in different contexts.

Teaching method:

Evaluation method: Eligibility

Period and Venue:
1st SEMESTER
DATES, TIME, PLACE TO BE DEFINED

Registration: Please send the teaching staff a confirmation of participation by email before the start of the course.

Contact: daniele.pascale2@unibo.it

Lecturers: Prof. Federico Fallavollita, Prof. Fabrizio Ivan Apollonio, Dr. Riccardo Foschi

SDS: CEAR-10/A

Doctoral credits: 2, Lecture hours: 12

Activity type: Seminar

PhD Year:1,2,3

Language: Italian, English

The seminar presents a project dedicated to the digital reconstruction of historical architectures that have disappeared or were never built, using 3D models based on figurative and textual sources. Currently, the absence of shared standards makes it difficult to distinguish scientifically valid reconstructions from amateur ones. The project's goal is to define guidelines and operational methodologies for the creation, documentation, and critical evaluation of these models, ensuring transparency and accessibility. By involving universities, companies, and institutions, the initiative aims to develop common standards and raise public awareness about the correct use of historical reconstructions. The project seeks to have a significant impact both in the academic world and in the digital entertainment industry. 

Teaching method: In presence

Method of evaluation: Eligibility

Period and venue
2nd semester
DATE, TIME AND PLACE TO BE DEFINED

Registration: Please send the lecturer a confirmation of participation by e-mail before the start of the course.

Contact: federico.fallavollita@unibo.it, riccardo.foschi@unibo.it

Lecturers: Prof. Matteo Cassani Simonetti, Prof. Ilaria Cattabriga

SDS:CEAR-11/A

Doctoral Credits: 2, Lectures Hours: 12

Activity Type: Disciplinary and multidisciplinary course

PhD Year: 1,2,3

Language: Italian

The course presents some research experiences in the field of architectural history, emphasizing the methodological aspects of interpreting urban and architectural space. The program includes four lectures: M. Cassani Simonetti, Towards the construction of a history as a choral work. Leonardo Benevolo and the “History of Modern Architecture”; I. Cattabriga, Museography and Museology: reading and interpreting the project as a “linguistic enunciation of the structure of perceptions”; G. Leoni, The historic city as a counter-model of urban development in Italy in the second half of the 20th century; D. Pascale Guidotti Magnani, The porticoes of Bologna and the UNESCO candidacy. The history of the city applied to a case of protection and preservation of architectural heritage.

Teaching method: In presence

Evaluation method: Eligibility

Period and Venue:
2nd semester,
DATE, TIME AND PLACE TO BE DEFINED

Registration: Please send the teaching staff a confirmation of participation by email before the start of the course.

Contact: matteo.cassani@unibo.it, ilaria.cattabriga3@unibo.it

Lecturers: Professors of Technical Architecture

SDS: CEAR-08/A

Doctoral Credits: 1, Lectures Hours: 6

Activity Type: Disciplinary and multidisciplinary course

PhD Year:

Language: Italian

Contents and learning objectives:


Teaching method: In presence

Evaluation method: Eligibility

Period and Venue:
DATE, TIME AND VENUE TO BE DEFINED

Registration: Please send the teaching staff a confirmation of participation by email before the start of the course.

Contact: luca.guardigli@unibo.it

Lecturers: Professors of Technical Architecture

SDS: CEAR-08/A

Doctoral Credits: 1, Lectures Hours: 6

Activity Type: Disciplinary and multidisciplinary course

PhD Year:

Language: Italian

Contents and learning objectives:


Teaching method: In presence

Evaluation method: Eligibility

Period and Venue:
DATE, TIME AND VENUE TO BE DEFINED

Registration: Please send the teaching staff a confirmation of participation by email before the start of the course.

Contact: luca.guardigli@unibo.it

Lecturers: Prof. Ernesto Antonini, Prof. Andrea Boeri, Prof. Saveria Olga Murielle Boulanger, Prof. Jacopo Gaspari, and Prof. Danila Longo

SDS: CEAR-08/C

Doctoral Credits: 1.5, Lectures Hours: 9

Activity Type: Disciplinary and multidisciplinary course

PhD Year: 1,2,3

Language: Italian

The course will discuss the notion of climate adaptation, critically examining the definitions proposed in recent scientific literature on the topic and in some guidelines and regulatory acts issued by national and supranational public authorities. It will then examine its applications at different scales, presenting and discussing some case studies and the most relevant effects that the need for adaptation produces in the design of interventions on the built environment.

Teaching method: In presence

Evaluation method: Eligibility

Period and Venue:
DATE, TIME AND PLACE TO BE DEFINED

Registration: Please send the teaching staff a confirmation of participation by email before the start of the course.

Contact: danila.longo@unibo.it

Lecturers: Prof. Andrea Borsari, Prof. Pierpaolo Ascari

SDS: PHIL-04/A Estetica

Doctoral Credits: 2, Lectures Hours: 12

Activity Type: Seminar

PhD Year:

Language: Italian

Contents and learning objectives:


Teaching method: In presence

Evaluation method: Eligibility

Period and Venue:
2nd semester,
DATE, TIME AND PLACE TO BE DEFINED

Registration: Please send the teaching staff a confirmation of participation by email before the start of the course.

Contact: a.borsari@unibo.it, pierpaolo.ascari@unibo.it