Educational Activities

Lecturers: Annalisa Trentin, Matteo Cassani Simonetti

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

Doctoral Credits: 2, Lectures Hours: 16

Activity Type: Seminar

Status: Active for the A.Y. 2024/2025

Language: Italian

Contents and learning objectives:
Case studies Bergamo, Bologna and Florence. The seminar has an interdisciplinary character, involving disciplines such as restoration, geography, history, aesthetics and construction technology. The seminar takes place at two levels: 1. Foundations/Analysis: understanding the city as an urban form (theoretical research); Körper/Raum: the city as volumetric composition and spatial arrangement (typology, morphology), the city as habitable space, the construction of the urban place; Interior/exterior: the city and its territory (geography); Form/content: the city and its idea (Gestalt). 2. Development projects of the urban form between restoration, conservation and transformation (design research: the construction of the urban place)

Teaching method: In presence

Evaluation method: Eligibility

Period and Venue:
2nd semester,
30/05/2025 - 31/05/2025
Bologna, Venue to be defined

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

Contact: annalisa.trentin@unibo.it , matteo.cassani@unibo.it

Lecturer: Vanessa Assumma

SDS: CEAR-03/C

PhD Credits: 1, Lectures Hours: 12

Activity Type: Seminar

Status: Active for A.Y. 2024/2025

Language: English

Contents and Learning Objectives
The seminar aims to provide PhD students with a general overview of decision-making tools suitable for the management of cultural heritage and landscape. Great attention will be paid to climate change and hazards that impact landscape and cultural heritage, as well as to national operational guidelines for the development of UNESCO Management Plans to support the planning and design of interventions in rural and urban areas according to a heritage-driven development perspective. A real case study will be presented to understand how evaluation tools can effectively support the decision-making process. New perspectives and emerging research interests will be illustrated to provide a qualitative-quantitative approach to landscape and cultural heritage management.

Teaching method: In presence

Evaluation method: Eligibility

Period and Venue:
2° semester
07/05/2025
14/05/2025
21/05/2025
28/05/2025
Bologna, venue to be defined

Registration: Please send the Lecturer a confirmation of participation by May 2nd 2025 https://forms.office.com/e/GwPSaVxzXq.

Contact: vanessa.assumma@unibo.it

Lecturer: Riccardo Gulli

SDS: CEAR-08/A

Doctoral credits: 1, Lecture hours: 3

Activity type: Seminar

Status: Active for A.Y. 2024/2025

Language: Italian

Contents and learning objectives
Seminar held by Prof. Renato Morganti of the University of L'Aquila focused on the presentation of the project activity carried out in the field of interventions on the existing heritage and object of the published volume ‘Dentro e fuori l'antico’, 2024. 

Teaching method: In presence

Method of evaluation: Eligibility

Period and venue
2nd semester
May 2025
BEA 9:00-12:00

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

Contact: riccardo.gulli@unibo.it

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

SDS: CEAR-11/B

Doctoral credits: 1, Lecture hours: 12

Activity type: Disciplinary and multidisciplinary training

Status: Active for A.Y. 2024/2025

Language: Italian

Training contents and objectives
The course aims to provide advanced knowledge of the processes of cultural heritage valorisation. Particular attention will be paid to the concept of care understood as an integrated activity in which communities play an increasingly central role, not only in conservation strategies but above all in the process of attribution of value. The importance of minor architectures, fragile contexts and the so-called discordant heritage will therefore be explored, analysing the processes that determine their recognition, the strategies implemented for their valorisation and encouraging interdisciplinary reflection.

Teaching methods: In presence

Method of assessment: Eligibility

Period and venue
2nd semester
April-May 2025

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

Contact: a.ugolini@unibo.it , marco.pretelli@unibo.it , leila.signorelli@unibo.it , alessia.zampini2@unibo.it , giulia.favaretto2@unibo.it

Lecturer: Elisa Conticelli

SDS:CEAR-12/A

Doctoral credits: 1, Lecture hours: 2

Activity type: Seminar

Status: Active for A.Y. 2024/2025

Language: English

Contents and learning objectives:
The seminar aims to deepen the understanding of the circular economy as a holistic model that can be applied to different urban settings. In particular, the lecture will explore how the circular economy can be integrated into urban planning tools towards more sustainable, resilient and connected cities. Participants will also have the opportunity to strengthen their skills in structuring a methodology for doctoral research.

Teaching methods: Online

Assessment method: Eligibility

Period and venue:
Semester 2, 27 March 2025 14:00-16:00
Online

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

Contacts: elisa.conticelli@unibo.it , giulia.marzani3@unibo.it

Lecturers: Luca Guardigli, Riccardo Gulli

SDS: CEAR-08/A

Doctoral credits: 1, Lecture hours: 4

Activity type: Seminar

Status: Active for A.Y. 2024/2025

Language: Italian/English

Contents and learning objectives
The seminar aims to highlight the importance of Construction History for the purposes of architectural design. In particular, it addresses the knowledge of the techniques and economic and social factors characterising construction processes. Articulation of the seminar over one day. Lecture with lecturers from the college and external lecturers. Presentation of current national and international doctoral research in presence/online and discussion.


Assessment method: Eligibility

Teaching method: In presence

Period and venue:
2° semester, 15 or 16 April 2025
Venue to be defined

Enrolment: Please send the lecturer confirmation of participation by e-mail by the beginning of the course.

Contacts: luca.guardigli@unibo.it , riccardo.gulli@unibo.it

Lecturer: Angela Santangelo, Research Management Office @DA


Doctoral credits: 2, Lecture hours: 12

Activity type: Workshops

Status: Active for A.Y. 2024/2025

Language: Italian

Contents and learning objectives:

The aim of the course is to provide basic knowledge on funding opportunities for competitive research, innovative teaching and territorial cooperation projects in European and national contexts. The course is divided into several lessons aimed at deepening the rules of the different programmes and some examples of projects, through the invitation of some of the coordinators or scientific referees of competitive projects pertaining to the Department of Architecture.  

Teaching methods: In presence

Assessment method: Eligibility

Period and venue:
I and II semester
27 March 2025
10 April 2025
8 May 2025
22 May 2025
5 June 2025
26 June 2025
Venue 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

Teachers: Elena Formia, Valentina Gianfrate, Michele Zannoni

SDS: CEAR-08/D

Doctoral Credits: 2, Lectures Hours: 24

Activity Type: Disciplinary and Multidisciplinary Training

Status: Active for the A.Y. 2024/2025

Language: English

Contents and Training Objectives:
The training module aims to provide PhD students with knowledge and skills and a critical look at the relationship between research, design and innovation. In the training path, teachers, research exponents, innovators who are developing approaches and methodologies oriented to the identification and creation of solutions for complex systems will be invited as guests. PhD students will be involved in a pro-active training process through 2 annual meetings organized in 8-hour modules
- Lecture (2 hours) Guest One day Bootcamp (6 hours) intensive workshop
During the preparation period for the Oneday Bootcamp (1 week before) PhD students will be asked to independently complete the reading of papers and documents provided by the guests.

Teaching method: In presence

Evaluation method: Eligibility

Period and place of delivery:
2nd semester
March-September 2025

Registration: Please send the teaching staff a confirmation of participation via email promptly.

Contact: elena.formia@unibo.it , valentina.gianfrate@unibo.it, michele.zannoni@unibo.it

Lecturers: Annarita Ferrante, Luca Guardigli

SDS: CEAR-08/A

Doctoral credits: 1, Lecture hours: 4

Activity type: Seminar

Status: Active for A.A. 2024/2025

Language: Italian

Training contents and objectives
Energy and architectural requalification of buildings. Development of products and techniques for the performance improvement of buildings. The seminar is spread over two days and aims to deepen the relationship between university research and the development of innovative technologies through meetings with designers and companies. Day 1: presentation of European projects - Prof. Annarita Ferrante. Day 2: Meeting with designers and enterprises - Prof. Luca Guardigli.

Teaching methods: In presence

Assessment Method: Eligibility

Period and venue
Semester 2,
- on 10 February the seminar will be from 2 to 6 p.m. (4 hours) in the Aula Magna,
- on 11 February, the workshop will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. (8 hours) in Lecture Hall 3.3.

Registration: Please fill in the following form https://forms.office.com/e/PKS29raQXw

Contacts: annarita.ferrante@unibo.it, luca.guardigli@unibo.it

Organizers: PhD students and Ph.D. Board

Doctoral Credits: 3, Hours: 24

Type of activity: Disciplinary and multidisciplinary training

Status: Active for the A.Y. 2024/2025

Language: English

Contents and training objectives:
The activity consists in the organization of an international conference by the PhD students with the support of some teachers of the Collegio. The multidisciplinary nature of the PhD course in 'Project Cultures', since the first year in which this activity was proposed, guides the choice of the topic of the meeting which, therefore, will be investigated from a transdisciplinary perspective. The activity includes the definition of the topic, the keynotes, the call for abstracts, the publication of the results preceded by the refereeing of the contributions, the organization of the event and the lectio magistralis.

Teaching method: In presence and Online

Evaluation method: Eligibility

Period and venue:
2nd semester
February 10, 9:00-18:00
Palazzo D’Accursio Sala Tassinari Piazza Maggiore, 6 Bologna

Registration: https://events.unibo.it/in-[…]hdarchitecture-bologna-2024

Contact: matteo.cassani@unibo.it

Lecturer: Vanessa Assumma

SDS: CEAR-03/C

Doctoral credits: 2, Lecture hours: 18

Activity type: Disciplinary and multidisciplinary training

Status: Active for A.Y. 2024/2025

Language: English

Contents and learning objectives:
The course focuses on a set of tools to effectively frame the problem and the decision-making context, constructing and evaluating sets of alternatives, considering techniques such as stakeholder analysis, SWOT analysis, multi-criteria analysis, hybrid methods looking at integrated assessment and geo-design.

Teaching methods: In presence

Evaluation method: Eligibility

Period and venue
Via Saragozza 8, Bologna
15/01/2025, 7.11
16/01/2025, 7.4
22/01/2025, 7.10
23/01/2025, 7.10
29/01/2025, 7.10
03/02/2025, 7.10

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

Contact: vanessa.assumma@unibo.it

Lecturer: Marco Gaiani

Doctoral credits: 1, Lecture hours: 2

Activity type: Disciplinary and multidisciplinary training

Status: Active for A.A. 2024/2025

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 2025 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., classroom 5.2,
Viale del Risorgimento 2, Bologna

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

Contact: marco.gaiani@unibo.it

Lecturers: Andrea Borsari, Pierpaolo Ascari

SDS: PHIL-04/A

Doctoral credits: 3, Lecture hours: 36

Activity type: Disciplinary and multidisciplinary training

Status: Active for A.Y. 2024/2025

Language: Italian/English

Training contents and objectives
‘the course will provide references for the definition of a new urban aesthetics that compares the tradition of twentieth-century elaboration on the city (Simmel, Kracauer, Benjamin, Foucault, Debord, Perec, Harvey etc.) with the series of problems proposed by the developments of the contemporary city, such as the relationship between the digital city and the city of bodies, the perception of the urban environment, the relationship between urban art, memory and public space, the aesthetic-perceptual dimension of phenomena linked to the anthropocene and climate change.
The title of the first seminar (1st year): ‘For an urban aesthetic in the age of the Anthropocene: the sublime and other categories’.

Teaching methods: In presence

Assessment method: Eligibility

Period and venue:
March 3rd and 5th 2025
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Sala Riunioni (exPam), Via Saragozza 8, Bologna.

Registration: Please contact the contact via email the lecturers before the beginning of the course.

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

Lecturer: Andrea Borsari, Francesco Di Maio, Claudia Nigrelli

SDS: PHIL-04/A

Doctoral credits: 2, Lecture hours: 20

Activity type: Seminar

Status: Active for A.Y. 2024/2025

Language: English

Contents and learning objectives:
Review of international studies on conceptual frameworks for the study of the city, the historic city and public spaces with the participation of Italian and European university lecturers.

Assessment method: Eligibility

Teaching methods: In presence

Period and venue:
Semester 1, 12-14 December 2024,
Via Zamboni 33 e P.za Maggiore 6

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

Contact: a.borsari@unibo.it

Lecturer: Ana Clara Moura

SDS: CEAR-12/A

Doctoral credits: 1, Lecture hours: 8

Activity type: Seminar

Status: Active for A.Y. 2024/2025

Language: Italian and English

Contents and learning objectives:
The seminar aims to provide specific knowledge about available data and their use in order to generate knowledge on environmental issues. In particular, an application case on the city of Bologna is proposed, aimed at assessing the climate impacts on urban fabrics.

Teaching methods: Online

Assessment method: Eligibility

Period and venue
Semester 1,
16 October, 23 October 2024
November 2025, date to be determined

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

Contact: anaclara@arq.ufmg.br

Lecturer: Valentina Gianfrate

SDS: CEAR-08/D

Doctoral credits: 2, Lecture hours: 16

Activity type: Workshop and Seminar

Status: Active for A.Y. 2024/2025

Language: Italian and English

Training contents and objectives
The training will be organised in collaboration with the Joint PhD ‘Service Design for Public Sector’ coordinated by UNI Sapienza, on the themes of design applied to complex contexts. The participation of external guests, the organisation of the Workshop ‘Extreme&Space Design’, a peer-to-peer dialogue among PhD students and study visits to significant places in Bologna (Serra Madre, Co-Location Centre C&C, etc.) are foreseen.

Teaching method: In presence

Assessment method: Eligibility

Period and venue
1st semester
02/12/2024
03/12/2024
04/12/2024

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

Contact: valentina.gianfrate@unibo.it

Lecturers: Annalisa Trentin, Joerg Gleiter

SDS: CEAR-09/A

Doctoral Credits: 1, Lectures Hours: 8

Activity Type: Seminar

Status: Active for the A.Y. 2024/2025

Language: English

Contents and educational objectives:
STUDY DAY, November 26, 2024 - Sala lignea Biblioteca Malatestiana Cesena, curated by: Annalisa Trentin (Unibo); Joerg Gleiter (TU Berlin);
UAA - Ungers Archiv. Study day with Interdisciplinary Seminar with the participation of external experts, round table with PhD students

Teaching method: In presence

Evaluation method: Eligibility

Period and Venue:
1st semester, 26/11/2024
Sala Lignea Biblioteca Malatestiana, Cesena

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

Contact: annalisa.trentin@unibo.it

Lecturer: Andrea Ugolini

SDS: CEAR-11/B

Doctoral credits: 3, Lecture hours: 24

Activity type: Seminar

Status: Active for A.Y. 2024/2025

Language: Italian

Training contents and objectives
Meetings organised by the Italian Society for the Restoration of Architecture (SIRA) dedicated to young researchers in restoration. Three working days of 8 hours each are planned in which the researchers will be asked to illustrate their study paths. The aim of the initiative is to promote the knowledge and exchange of experiences between young Italian and foreign researchers. The three days will focus on the themes of the management and care of the archaeological, modern and contemporary heritage.

Teaching methods: In presence

Assessment method: Eligibility

Period and venue
1st semester
22/11/2024

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

Contact: a.ugolini@unibo.it

Lecturer: Danila Longo

SSD: CEAR-08/C

Doctoral Credits: 2, Lecture Hours: 20

Activity Type: Seminar

Status: Active for the A.Y. 2024/2025

Language: Italian/English

Contents and training objectives:
The series of conferences addresses the challenges that Europe poses to contemporary cities, the relationship between integrated infrastructures, the energy issue and the digitalization of services. The research lines explored during the meetings are treated and clarified through a series of transversal themes declined on the city and investigated according to the different responses to social, environmental and technological challenges. 10 meetings on the following topics: smart city and governance; community and energy citizenship; big data, control room and planning; formal and informal transition processes; neutral cities; green cities; sustainable mobility and ecology and ethics in architecture; impacts of design actions and SDGs.

Teaching method: In presence

Evaluation method: Eligibility

Period and place of delivery:
1st, 2nd semester
I e II semestre - 20/09/2024; 27/09/2024; 30/09/2024; 18/10/2024; 25/10/2024; 25/03/2025;
04/03/2025;
10/03/2025;
11/03/2025;
17/03/2025;
18/03/2025;
31/03/2025;
01/04/2025.

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

Contact: danila.longo@unibo.it , beatrice.turillazzi@unibo.it

Transversal Skills Plan: Course Update
The updated program is available on the website https://eventi.unibo.it/competenze-trasversali-dottorato.

As always, places are limited: it is therefore important to identify the priority topics for your training and the activities that you will actually be able to follow; this is to allow the largest number of PhD students to participate.

It is possible to register for the activities on the website https://iscrizioni-eventi.unibo.it/
Any changes to registrations will always be possible on the same website.