For the ‘Biennale Sessions – Reporting From the Italian Front’ 2016, the architectural group of the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Trento with R.E.D.S. Cloud proposes the theme of the UNIVERSITY - CITY intended not only as the connection between higher education institutions and its users, but also as the ability of the university to meet the ch
allenges arising from applied research, design innovation and improving the quality of life that comes from the territory. The UNIVERCITY - Biennale Sessions 2016 - aims to focus on three DESIGN CHALLENGES to reflect and reframe critically the relation between University and City in the contemporary built environment. What is the impact of Design in the force that shapes our contemporary reality through the production of Knowledge, Contexts, and Entrepreneurial practices? To what extend do contingencies of time and place shape our responses to the continuous relationship between University and City system? How does the discursive character of design education as collaboration and scholarship contribute to this feedback look?
