The establishment of the Sino-Italian Urban Regeneration HUB stems from the recognition of a precise market need expressed by the Italian design industry and the potentiality offered by the context of the Chinese urban construction sector. The HUB offers at the DES School an opportunity to explore the topic of urban regeneration in contemporary China. After the rapid growth of the last two decades, China’s spatial, urban, and architectural development is at a crucial stage. A renewed awareness and sensitivity to issues of sustainability and land consumption are ushering in a phase that calls for new strategies to understand the urban territory and re-signify the physical environment.
It is with these assumptions that the Sino-Italian Urban Regeneration HUB finds its mission, promoting the Italian morpho-typological approach, known worldwide for its ability to work in a multi-scalar and meta-historical way, as a cutting-edge research methodology and design practice. This represents an opportunity to advance scientific knowledge and promote innovation in Urban Regeneration, exploring the mutual influences of Chinese and Italian cultures.
The HUB, with the support of engineering, architecture, and economic consulting organizations, connects academia with the public and private sectors. It focuses on research into new urban design tactics and advances in architectural technologies. In this way, it aims to usher in a new urban strategy, reflecting the changing paradigms of the new sensibility that is the seed of the Chinese urbanity, uniting past, present, and future.
The establishment of the Sino-Italian Urban Regeneration HUB stems from the recognition of a precise market need expressed by the Italian design industry and the potentiality offered by the context of the Chinese urban construction sector. The HUB offers at the DES School an opportunity to explore the topic of urban regeneration in contemporary China. After the rapid growth of the last two decades, China’s spatial, urban, and architectural development is at a crucial stage. A renewed awareness and sensitivity to issues of sustainability and land consumption are ushering in a phase that calls for new strategies to understand the urban territory and re-signify the physical environment.
It is with these assumptions that the Sino-Italian Urban Regeneration HUB finds its mission, promoting the Italian morpho-typological approach, known worldwide for its ability to work in a multi-scalar and meta-historical way, as a cutting-edge research methodology and design practice. This represents an opportunity to advance scientific knowledge and promote innovation in Urban Regeneration, exploring the mutual influences of Chinese and Italian cultures.
The HUB, with the support of engineering, architecture, and economic consulting organizations, connects academia with the public and private sectors. It focuses on research into new urban design tactics and advances in architectural technologies. In this way, it aims to usher in a new urban strategy, reflecting the changing paradigms of the new sensibility that is the seed of the Chinese urbanity, uniting past, present, and future.