Unit CITY AND LANDSCAPE

Zero Volume Architecture

Code	A001945
Location	ASSISI
CFU	6
Teacher	Paolo Belardi
Teachers	Paolo Belardi Joseph Grima (Codocenza)
Hours	45 ore - Paolo Belardi 9 ore (Codocenza) - Joseph Grima
Learning activities	Affine/integrativa
Area	Attività formative affini o integrative
Academic discipline	ICAR/14
Type of study-unit	Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction	Italian.
Contents	The course concerns the modifications of simple architectural systems without building volumes.
Reference texts	I.Cortesi, "Il progetto del vuoto. Public Space in Motion 2002-2004, Alinea, Firenze 2005. A. Aymonino, V.P. Mosco (a cura di), Spazi pubblici contemporanei. Architettura a volume zero", Skira, Milano 2006. A. Aymonino, G. Cavazzano (a cura di), "Architettura Zero Cubatura. Tesi di laurea 2002-2007", Il Poligrafo, Padova 2007. "Zero Volume", in "Area", 111, 2014.
Educational objectives	The course has set itself the objective of providing students with the tools to control the modifications of architectural systems simple without building volumes.
Prerequisites	Basic knowledge of architecture drawing.
Teaching methods	The course is divided into lectures and exercises in a project.
Other information	None.
Learning verification modality	The exam consists of an individual oral test and the presentation of a project realized in a group. The test aims at assuring the level of knowledge and understanding, as well as synthesis, achieved by the student.
Extended program	The course concerns the modifications of simple architectural systems without building volumes. The course is divided into lectures and exercises in a project.

Aesthetics of Landscape in the History of Thought

Code	A001947
Location	ASSISI
CFU	6
Teacher	Massimiliano Marianelli
Teachers	Serena Meattini (Codocenza) Massimiliano Marianelli
Hours	27 ore (Codocenza) - Serena Meattini 27 ore - Massimiliano Marianelli
Learning activities	Affine/integrativa
Area	Attività formative affini o integrative
Academic discipline	M-FIL/06
Type of study-unit	Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction	Italian
Contents	Recognition and relationship between art and landscape
Reference texts	1) Introduction and framing of the meanings of aesthetics that will allow the student to learn and use the vocabulary, categories and basic notions of the discipline. Material provided by the teachers 2) The link between art and relationship. Material provided by teachers 3) Aesthetics and landscape: The landscape as a place of recognition and space of relationship. Reference text: P. D’Angelo, Estetica e paesaggio, Il Mulino 2009 4) Places and forms of aesthetic experience: for a broadening of the notion of artisticity. Material provided by the teachers; M. Donà – M. Marianelli, Beuys e Burri: 1980 – 2020. Un tempo e il suo orizzonte di senso, pièdimosca Edizioni, Perugia 2021 5) Landscape and spaces of contemporary art. Material provided by teachers Teachers will provide further information during the lessons
Educational objectives	The student will have to acquire critical awareness of the main argumentative and problematic points characterizing the modern and contemporary debates that invest: the definition of aesthetics, reflection on the landscape, the nature and role of art with attention to the theme of recognition and relationship. Significant acquisition of the historical-philosophical contents of the discipline; development of the capacity of elaborative-critical and interpretative orientation. Methodology of interdisciplinary teaching: relations between aesthetics and other fields of knowledge; philosophy and science, philosophy and art, philosophy and history, philosophy and public discussion
Prerequisites	None
Teaching methods	Lectures, seminars
Other information	Lessons will take place at the Palazzo Bernabei (Assisi) or, if necessary, in blended or online mode. For more information, please visit the website. Frequency of lessons: Optional but strongly advised.For more info:https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/)
Learning verification modality	Final oral examen or written test of 40 minutes.
Extended program	The course aims to focus on the relationship between aesthetics, landscape and art starting from the centrality of the relational dimension, on the basis of the category of recognition. Some basic elements of the disciplinary field will be addressed in order to provide a historical and methodological framework aimed at understanding the terms, categories and evolution of the different meanings assumed by the discipline (the science of sensible knowledge; the different declinations assumed by the aesthetic experience; the various forms of philosophy of art). The link between art and recognition will then be addressed, emphasizing the relational and intersubjective implications connected to the artistic dimension, introductory to the treatment of the landscape and the different forms of artistic expression in the contemporary context. The relationship between aesthetics and landscape will be addressed considering heterogeneous readings and perspectives, in order to propose as broad a view as possible on the possible issues and implications related to the theme.

Land Art Design

Code	A001946
Location	ASSISI
CFU	6
Teacher	Benedetta Terenzi
Teachers	Benedetta Terenzi
Hours	54 ore - Benedetta Terenzi
Learning activities	Caratterizzante
Area	Design e comunicazioni multimediali
Academic discipline	ICAR/13
Type of study-unit	Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction	Italian
Contents	The course offers a methodological path that guides students to acquire a range of knowledge, tools and methods useful for the design activity. The course offers a practical approach to the use of project tools, so that the student can become familiar with making informed choices along all stages of the design process. In particular, the design work will concern wayfinding for improving the spatial perception and orientation of places.
Reference texts	Belardi, P., Bianconi, F., 2012, I am a Hospital. Dal wayfinding al waysharing, Firenze, Alinea. Calori C., Vanden-Eynden D., 2015, Signage and Wayfinding Design. A Complete Guide to Creating Environmental Graphic Design Systems, Hoboken, New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Downs, R. M., & Stea, D. (Eds.), 1973, Image & environment: Cognitive mapping and spatial behavior. AldineTransaction. Hunter S., 2010, Architectural wayfinding. Centre for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access. School of Architectural and Planning, University of Buffalo. Kaplan, R., Kaplan, S., & Brown, T., 1989, “Environmental Preference” in “Environment and Behavior”, 21(5), 509. Lynch, K.,1960, The Image of the City, Cambridge, MIT Press. Passini, R.,1984, “Spatial representations: A wayfinding perspective” in “Journal of Environmental Psychology”, 4(2), 153–164. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0272-4944(84)80031-6 Passini, R., 1992, Wayfinding in Architecture, New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons Inc. Arthur, P., Passini R., 1992, Wayfinding: people, signs and architecture. New York, McGraw-Hill. Passini, R., 1984, “Spatial representations: a way-finding perspective” in “Journal of Environmental Psychology”, 4, 153-164. Sims, M.,1991, Sign Design, Graphic, Materials, Techniques, London, Thames and Hudson. Spera, M., 2005, Abecedario del grafico. La progettazione tra creatività e scienza. Roma, Gangemi Editore. Terenzi, B.,2012, Identità e immagine. Le logiche del design nel progetto per la comunicazione visiva, Bergamo, edizioni Imagna. Zingale, S., 2006, Wayfinding e cognizione spaziale, Intervista di L. Melzani, Milano. Zingale, S., 2006, “Segnare la strada. Il contributo della semiotica al Wayfinding” in “Ergonomia”, vol. 4; p. 35-37, ISSN: 1123-7651
Educational objectives	The evaluation criteria will focus on the acquisition of some key skills (Dublin Descriptors) that the course intends to feed: - analytical and sense-making skills (ability to use the tools and methods of research and analysis and synthesis) - communication skills (verbal, visual and storytelling); - systemic vision skills (thought organization, ability to manage the process phases, - research and in-depth skills, problem solving skills); - design skills (ability to organize work and use project development tools) - autonomy, self-esteem, teambuilding and teamworking.
Prerequisites	Knowledge of ISO standards on design and the ability to represent in 2D and 3D through the use of various tools. Use of graphics software.
Teaching methods	The course includes a series of lectures, which are accompanied by meetings with local experts and professionals. In addition, two intermediate verification moments on the topics addressed will be scheduled.
Other information	The course provides indications on the sources from which it is possible to draw indications and suggestions for the exercises and for the project. The sources are traditional (books, magazines, documents) and audio / video and will be enriched from time to time during the lessons.
Learning verification modality	The exam will be carried out on the dates fixed in the exam timetable of the CdS and includes an oral test and the presentation of the project drawings. The oral exam consists of an interview lasting no more than about 30 minutes to present the project's drawings to the committee.
Extended program	The course starts with an analysis of the meaning of wayfinding and the intervention methods of Environmental Graphic Design (EGD) to bring students closer to an interdisciplinary approach to the design of places with a view to enhancing the territories. The design experience will develop in synergy with the other modules of the Laboratory, with the aim of an integrated sustainable communication system of the man-made territory. If we enter the area of ¿¿territorial planning, we must first of all specify that a good project goes beyond the simple structure designed to accommodate and facilitate human work through the wise arrangement of places, paths and functions and that it possesses a sort of autonomy able to order and guide operations according to intelligent procedures, almost spontaneously taking action to produce detailed solutions when problems arise. In this sense, unlike what happens in current practice, where generally the issues of orientation are entrusted to graphic solutions often applied a posteriori which inevitably neglect both the correspondence between form and content, giving up the communicative component of places, the EGD through the use of wayfinding has a multidisciplinary approach to design. Wayfinding describes the dynamic component of this man-environment relationship, indicating the process that implies the ability to move in space to reach the set goal through adequate information. This ability, according to Arthur and Passini (1992), presupposes the resolution of a spatial problem solving.