Università Roma Tre

The Laboratory proposes a didactic approach with projects for the reuse of disused buildings in Rome, which can be implemented in extensible and responsive time phases. It connects students with emerging communities by stimulating the search, on the investigated site, for actors, users, financing, circular economy triggers. Time and the human factor induce an indeterminate project by inducing the search for timelines, self-organised subjects, development phases, with the contribution of tools and methods for project evaluation. The module of apraisal and project evaluation, in this context, aims at integrating the fundamental themes of valuation by deepening some specific aspects, through the discussion of the most recent disciplinary developments in support of community projects and bottom up proposed, developed in the Workshop. Evaluation is part of the ideational-formative process of the reuse project, providing a logical and methodological support to the progressive and temporal choices, becoming an active component and generator of project alternatives. The evaluation contributes to the construction and choice of the preferable solution with respect to the context, to the complex framework of subjects (formal and informal) that make up the emerging communities that are involved in the progressive process of space and city transformation.
The evaluation aims to search for prefigured feasibility requirements, taking into account the multiplicity of variables involved (economic, social, environmental, financial, aesthetic-cultural, etc.) and the contribution of innovative and alternative economic models based on circularity, proximity, the values of use and non-use, common goods and the collaborative and solidarity-based economy. The module explores project evaluation tools according to different approaches linked to these economic paradigms, proposing methodologies and tools that allow the evaluation of effects and impacts perceived by the community and capable of stimulating the activation or triggering of resources, the development of the project and the process and the possible prediction of conflicts.
Specifically, the module consists of:
- Summary recapitulation of the fundamentals of appraisal: fundamental principles and appraisal procedures of fundamental and derived values. In-depth study of the main international estimation procedures. In-depth study of Total Economic Value: methodological framework and criteria for estimating use value and non-use values.
- Elements of economics: references to the theory of value, elements of cognitive and behavioural economics, hints at solidarity, collaborative and community and proximity economic forms.

On the fundamentals of appraisal:
- C. Forte, B. De' Rossi, "Principi di economia ed estimo", Etas Libri, Milano 1979.
- Appraisal Institute, “The Appraisal of Real Estate”, 15th ed., Appraisal Institute, Chicago, 2020.
On project evaluation:
- Bateman I. J. et al., “Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques: A Manual”, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2002.
- MIT-Ministero delle Infrastrutture ed ei Trasporti. (2017). Linee guida per la valutazione degli investimenti in opere pubbliche. https://mit.gov.it
- Polelli, M. “Nuovo trattato di estimo”, Maggior, Rimini, 2008.
- Roscelli, R. (a cura di), Manuale di estimo, UTET, Torino, 2014.
Handouts and documentation provided within the Course.