The Chinese Culture University, Taiwan, in collaboration with the municipality of Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca, Italy, is offering to a limited number of architecture and landscape architecture students the opportunity to take part in a seven-day design workshop in Maccagno, organized by the Landscape architecture department, College of Environmental Design, the Chinese Culture University as part of the CCU summer 2018 workshops program. This workshop is the third and last installment of the collaboration between CCU and the municipality of Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca, that began with the August 2016 workshop and repeated with the August 2017 workshop, involving more than 50 students.
the seven-day design workshop
The design workshop will investigate the possibility for to drive contemporary global urbanization by elaborating the spatial interaction of inhabited areas with large-scale environmental features. This will be done within the framework of the spatial development of Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca, the Italian municipality that commissioned the workshop as part of the research process for developing new guidelines of planning.
Indeed, the municipality has just undergone a process of administrative agglomeration that brought together three different municipalities. Socio-economic resources has begun to be shared, and new optimism has arisen from formerly peripheral municipalities. Anyway, such socio-economic restructuring is not enough; a spatial restructuring of the territory is necessary, too. Indeed, if socio-economic dynamics have changed, their organization within space has changed, too. Thus, a renewed infrastructure must be put in place, and must suit existing dynamics, as well as must bring existing resources in contact with the new dynamics. Only by means of this, the management and maintenance of those resources would not turn into an unsustainable burden.
The workshop will include (1) visits/survey of the municipal territory, (2) briefing seminars with the commissioners of the municipality, (3) studio/atelier time tutored by experts in urban and landscape design, (4) lectures by experts in public space design, (5) a final presentation of the workshop outcome to the citizens and commissioners of Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca.
In particular, the participants will have to develop urban and landscape projects for selected areas of Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca, combining management ideas with architectural intervention so as to generate a new vision of development. Participants will work and live in an international environment, where English will represent the main working language, along with Italian and Mandarin Chinese.
