Università Roma Tre

The course deals with the complex relationship between climate and city. The evaluation of mitigation strategies and adaptation to the effects of climate change in the urban environment, becomes an increasingly important and essential issue in every hypothesis of modification of physical space and, in particular, of collective spaces in the city.
The main objective of the course is to provide students some tools and techniques to evaluate the impact of an intervention on public space in terms of climate resilience and urban health (with particular attention to the microclimatic phenomenon known as "Urban Heat Island"). The course, conceived as a design exercise, aims to stimulate an innovative and sensitive approach to the understanding of urban morphologies, territories and their own needs for adaptation to new climatic conditions that affect the life and health of the inhabitants of metropolitan areas. The course tries to stimulate this sensitivity and, at the same time, to experience a broad design vision that can deal with the complex challenges that affect the contemporary public space, with the new and changing needs that contemporary urban communities express and that the project must be able to meet.