In March 2019, the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation launched the ioabitosocial platform dedicated to the search for temporary social housing solutions in Italy: www.ioabitosocial.it
The ioabitosocial platform is an opportunity to network, linking the ever-increasing demand of people looking for short term housing solutions with the offer of the many “temporary housing” managers in Italy. It is aimed at people in a stressful housing situation, students, travelling professionals, city users, elderly people, young couples.
The aim of the platform is to facilitate the search for temporary housing solutions through geolocation and identification of needs and requirements, making existing Social Housing…
Maria Chiara Tosi, Marta De Marchi, Michela Pace, Università Iuav di Venezia
Designing the transition to greater sustainability is one of the main challenges that many institutions are working on.
There are many areas in which the transition is articulated: housing, agrifood production systems in space, mobility models, production geographies, and finally the environmental transition, linked to the effects of climate change.
In the context of these initiatives aimed at facing the challenge of transition, the role of cities has only recently emerged. In several areas such as transport, health, well-being, social inclusion, pollution control, environmental management, cities have proven to be better equipped than nation…
Gianni Biagi, Director of URBIT
The great global pandemic crisis caused by Covid19 has opened, perhaps rather forced to open, a reflection on the theme of how contemporary cities have been designed and built. A reflection that affects the foundations of the disciplines that are interested in cities and building places for human life. The National Institute of Urban Planning has produced a document on the subject and many scholars have reflected on how to reorganize the city, living, urban living.
This seminar aims to offer a first calm reflection on these topics starting from two introductions (two reflections aloud)…
