The City and the Water

About

The International Summer School “The City and the Water”, since 2014, is a Design Full-Time Workshop, aimed at investigating the complex relationships between the built environment and the water, in its broadest meaning of environmental resource, and therefore including seaside, rivers, lakes and water resources.

The Summer School is organized over two weeks and hosted in Pisa by the Department of Energy, Systems, Territory, and Constructions Engineering of the University of Pisa.

The students, coming from all continents, will be engaged in the development of a project on a case study, with the support of professors and tutors from the University of Pisa and visiting professors from other national and international schools of architecture, engineering and landscape design.

The title of the 2025 edition will be "Cities with(out) water". The first part of the Summer School will be dedicated to the critical reading and knowledge of the study areas in order to identify their value and criticalities. On the remaining days, the students will work on the development of an enhancement project on the area chosen as a case study. Throughout the period, lectures will be appropriately organised to provide theoretical and methodological support for project development. The ideas and drawings developed during the Summer School will be presented in a public exhibition.

Organizing Committee (in alphabetical order):
- Marco Giorgio Bevilacqua
- Lucia Giorgetti
- Giammarco Montalbano
- Piergiuseppe Rechichi
- Giovanni Santi

Scientific Committee (in alphabetical order):
Abdelmalek Ammari, Marco Giorgio Bevilacqua, Renato Bocchi, Fabrizio Cinelli, Lucia Giorgetti, Barbara Gherri, Antonella Guida, Renato Iannelli, Luca Lanini, Emanuele Leporelli, Lina Malfona, Massimiliano Martino, Jonida Meniku, Jamal Mounaji, Fatima Zahra Oufara, Livio Petriccione, Luca Ponsi, Vito Porcari, Alessandra Renzulli, Giovanni Santi, Issam Sobhy, Abdelghani Tayyibi, Beatrice Turillazzi, Denise Ulivieri, Veronica Vitiello.

The Winter School will be held on campus, in Pisa, at Centro Congressi Le Benedettine, Piazza San Paolo a Ripa D'Arno, 16.

Course leader

Prof. Giovanni Santi

Target group

The International Summer School is open to university students and PhD students of Architecture, Urban Planning, Design, Design Institutes, Landscape Design, and also to young professionals and artists from all EU and non-EU countries.

Course aim

The summer school aims to provide theoretical skills and methodological tools for the architectural design linked to water's landscape.

Students, organized in groups composed by members of different nationalities, will be asked to develop a project of enhancement for an area chosen as a case study. The internationality of the group of students is fundamental for promoting cultural exchange and comparison, also in terms of approach, between dfferent experiences in the field of architectural design, landscape conservation and enhancement at an international level.

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