Top of Page Contemporary Metropolis The New Discipline MGIP Metrodology Metropolitan Discipline Contemporary Metropolis Contemporary Metropolis INNOVATIVE COURSE . LESSON 1 Rapid urbanisation has been one of the urgent issues across the globe in the past few decades. According to the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, today, 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. As a consequence, more and more cities are now becoming part of larger metropolitan areas. The modern meaning of metropolis appeared in early 20th century describing the change of measure and scale of the urban settlements in the wake of the industrialization in the western world. It described the urban expansion that had been occurring at different times in different locations around the world over the past two centuries. Otto Wagner and Ludwig Hilberseimer were amongst the first scholars who raised the issue of the Großstadt, that is the “big” city. The phenomenon of the contemporary metropolis is, however, quite different from the modern industrial “big city”. Unlike the prediction of early modern metropolis being the “vertical city” driven by progress, technology, and science, what we experience now is rather a more complex “horizontal metropolis”. There are many underlying reasons to this phenomenon that are also complex and intertwined. However, within our project framework, we focus on the three issues of data, scale, and quality of living. The New Discipline The Need of a New Discipline INNOVATIVE COURSE . LESSON 2 The contemporary metropolis cannot be defined by statistics nor be considered as a globally homogeneous phenomenon. Instead, we need to focus on the paradigm shift from city to metropolis that brought us a new way of understanding our living context, the new measure and scale of contemporary lives. Therefore, considering the different nature of the contemporary metropolis and its inherent issues, we cannot understand it within traditional disciplinary boundary. Metropolitan Discipline is the new perspective on contemporary metropolis and the complexity of its issues with these approaches and questions. It promotes collaboration and contribution of scholars and practitioners all around the globe in shaping the genome and phenome of the metropolitan knowledge as well as building new tools, frameworks, and methodology. The emphasis on the “practice” comes from the notion that the metropolitan discipline is not merely a branch of knowledge but rather a framework for the reciprocal process of knowledge building and practical exposure. Metropolitan General Issues and Principals MGIP INNOVATIVE COURSE . LESSON 3 MGIP PROCESS VIDEO The aim of the Metropolitan General Issues and Principle (MGIP) framework is to create a feedback mechanism where practical experience is reflected in the theoretical work of the Metropolitan Discipline, taking the local environment, community, wealth, governance, and culture dimensions into consideration. Reducing the metropolitan complexity into metropolitan dynamics is an important role of the MGIP framework. Compared to the entire entangled system that is the metropolitan complexity, metropolitan dynamics represent a series of phenomena explaining the issue and the gap in reality. These are related to specific topics and issues, therefore have limited factors to consider compared to the entire complexity. Metrodology Metrodology INNOVATIVE COURSE . LESSON 4 METRODOLOGY NEW PROCESS VIDEO Metro-dology is the design process of the Metropolitan Architecture projects. It is a sequence of phases implemented with specific tools that support the decision-making process of the physical transformations of a metropolis through the building of a metropolitan narrative. The Metropolitan Discipline aims to equip the learners with the ability to articulate a dialogue, a narrative on all subjects that make up the framework of metropolitan projects and be able to integrate the complex urbanization process in their strategic plans.

Events Arbatax-Tortolì: Evolutionary City ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO WORKSHOP Date to be determined Arbatax - Tortolì | Sardinia, Italy The Workshop is organized in collaboration with the Municipality of Tortolì-Arbatax and with the company LEVANTE s.r.l.s. concessionaire of the area. The main urban challenge tackled by the project is the fight again the abandonment through valorization of the area called Parco Batteria of 40.551 sq.m., through an integrated naturalistic-cultural itinerary. The incredibly beautiful panorama sweeps like an amphitheater from the Gennargentu mountains to the Tortolì plain and the Gulf of Arbatax. The municipality and the concessionaire of the area aims at “the enhancement of an integrated naturalistic-cultural itinerary through the development of recreational and cultural compatible activities with reference to natural areas, as long as they do not conflict with the needs of naturalistic protection and in full respect of ecological functionality”. The proposed project aims to enter into the debate between cultural goods and economic-social good. Send Dear students, It is with regret that I communicate the extension of the workshop of Arbatax Tortolì, organized for 12th-22th of October - on a date to be scheduled - due to the National Covid 19 Emergency. Nevertheless, I would like to invite you to the seminar organized for October 19th at 14.30 pm with international experts on the Territorial Ecotourism management and Ecosystem Services topics joining at https://politecnicomilano.webex.com/meet/antonella.contin . Please fill in the registration-form only in case of a real willingness to participate.

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Objectives Metropolitan Curriculum Through hybrid configurations of leadership, the metropolitan discipline is like a “third space” in which it’s possible to engage HEI professors and stakeholders in truly authentic learning activities (assisted by rapid advances in digital technology).The way of conceiving the metropolitan training programme is completely new as it is based on a learning-by-doing methodology that allows knowledge building participation process where the HEI teachers can benefit from the awareness of the specific needs and objectives that the stakeholders – and civil servants in particular – will be able to express. The students, professors and professionals will work together in order to share ideas and discuss pioneering solutions for the problems of managing contemporary metropolis. The metropolitan training programme will define a broader disciplinary framework where different skills and competences will be provided and brought together by a common metropolitan interest. We expect that the participants will accomplish better understanding of the complexity of cities, identifying successful practices that could be transferred to other metropolitan areas, and introducing the debate about the need for a new metropolitan discipline accounting for management approaches to the large urban scale. Training 01 Objectives The Tellme Training is designed as an interdisciplinary course. The complexity of the city design today combines a high number of diverse disciplines that all contribute to form the body of knowledge necessary to act in the territorial and urban environment. Built and Natural Environment, Economics, Law, Governance and Sociology are all tools to be used by the developer in the process of decision-making. The aim of the interdisciplinary approach is providing the participants with additional knowledge of subjects that have not been studied in their previous disciplinary profile. It is not intended to give participants the education level equivalent to a discipline that has not studied, but that they are able to understand the mechanisms of the subjects, which are not primarily theirs. And understand that priorities are set different when coming from a different discipline – they should learn to think “out of their box’ and have some inside views in other boxes”. The training course aims to equip participants with the ability to articulate a dialogue/narrative on all subjects that make up the framework of metropolitan project and be able to integrate the overall urbanization process in their strategic plans. Since teaching and learning the metropolitan disciplinary curriculum is not static, it is considered an open topic. The curriculum follows the intentions and the general indications of the discipline, defines the competences and the learning goals. It integrates and not only sums different and complex disciplinary knowledge. Therefore, its purpose is not to replicate the knowledge that already has been imparted by sector during a master course, but will underline the elaboration of a model of integration between the various issues addressed. In short, the goal is to properly train the metropolitan groups rather than giving lessons on techniques and skills that become obsolete in a few years. It results in civil servants and stakeholders’ positive attitude towards the uncertainty and complexity of the physical and social scenarios of the metropolitan dimension. Standardized and regular programs of knowledge that communicate invariant content are no longer suitable to the rapid changes. Moreover, the professional and conventional technicians alone are no longer appropriate. The metropolitan discipline allows acquiring a capacity for integrated visions and thought. It is necessary to learn how to select the required information in order to understand the priorities that are not only effective today but are valid and sustainable in the long time span. Training 02 Metropolitan Curriculum Metropolitan Curriculum

Top of Page PoliMI Fondazione di PoliMI Uni de Sevilla Uncuyo UAM Esta Uni de Guadalajara Cippec Doba CNR PoliMI The partnership is composed by 6 HEIs - Politecnico di Milano (Italy), Universidad de Sevilla (Spain), DOBA (Slovenia), Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina), Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana and Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico), a University Foundation (Fondazione Politecnico di Milano - Italy), 2 NGOs (ESta, Italy and CIPPEC, Argentina), a Research Centre (CNR-IREA, Italy). Politecnico di Milano Politecnico di Milano School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction Engineering ​ Department of Architecture and Urban Studies Partner Organizations ANTONELLA CONTIN PoliMi Team coordinator MS[lab] Team coordinator Professor and Researcher antonella.contin@polimi.it SANDY JLYOON KIM Researcher jiyoon.kim@polimi.it ALESSANDRO MUSETTA Researcher alessandro.musetta@polimi.it Valentina Galiulo Researcher Valentina.galiulo@mail.polimi.it Iacopo Neri position email Marzia Di Fini position email Measures and Scales of Contemporary Cities Lab Coordinator: Antonella Contin antonella.contin@polimi.it ​ MS Lab is a research unit in the department of architecture and urban studies at the Politecnico di Milano. The lab has been and sharing the idea of ‘Metropolitan Approach to Complexity’ and ‘Practice of the Metropolitan Discipline’, emphasizing the process of constructing a new urban and architectural form that shapes the metropolitan territory. The metropolitan approach to complexity is the methodology to practice on the field of action of the metropolitan dimension. The role of the MSLab within the TELLme project courses is to share knowledge on the metropolitan approach, alternative to land-use planning approach, and discuss needs, values and possibilities on projects with academics, civil servants, and local In this framework, the relevance of investing in the public realm and civic robustness is focused on how to orient mapping efforts to get strategic in structuring city growth. Giulia Tagliente position email Fondazione Politecnico di Milano ​ Fondazione Politecnico di Milano The Lifelong Learning, Social Responsibility and Digital Learning and Collaboration Unit ​ The Lifelong Learning, Social Responsibility and Digital Learning and Collaboration Unit at Fondazione Politecnico di Milano (FPM) supports innovation processes in education and training and promotes continuous skill development as essential to build a knowledge-based economy enabling critical professional and organizational changes. It covers a range of activities aiming at recognizing and upgrading skills acquired through life, social, and work contexts; developing and promoting e-collaboration and e-learning with innovative processes and methodologies; stimulating and encouraging multidisciplinary approaches attentive to human and social development; and promoting responsible practices of sustainable and equitable development in local and international settings. ​ Within the TELLme project, FPM main role is to transfer its expertise into the development of the TELLme Training Programme Guideline (O6) and to collaborate in building the framework of the transversal and managerial competences acquired during the training activities (O7). FPM is contributing to the overall theoretical framework of the Metropolitan Architecture Discipline under the epistemological perspective. STEFANO SANNA Researcher stefano.sanna@fondazione.polimi.it PATRIZIA GIORDANO Project Manager patrizia.giordano@polimi.it Fondazione Politecnico di Milano Fondazione di PoliMI Universidad de Sevilla Universidad de Sevilla Master in Sustainable City and Architecture (MCAS) Coordinator: Domingo Sánchez Fuentes dsanchez@us.es MCAS provides for professionals, administration, technicians and future researchers, advanced and transdisciplinary training in Sustainability, aimed at the regeneration of the City and Architecture. Its studies are distinguished by its cultural and reflective framework, and by a pioneering technical offer, which decisively anticipates the pressures enduring sustainability as a discipline. The Seville TELLme Team interweaves three departments at Higher Technical School of Architecture, University of Seville, Spain: Urbanistics and Land Management; History, Theory and Composition in Architecture; Building Structures and Geotechnical Engineering in addition to experts belonging to the Andalusian Historical Heritage Institute, converging all of them at MCAS of the University of Seville. The role at TELLme project consists of taking care of ecological and social issues, in special on cohesion and equity for emerging new metropolitan areas. CARLOS TAPLA MARTIN Professor and Researcher tava@us.es DOMINGO SANCEZ FUENNTES Seville Team coordinator Professor and Researcher dsanchez@us.es PEDRO GORGOLAS MARTIN Professor and Researcher pedrogorgolas@gmail.com BIANCA del ESPINO HIDALGO Professor and Researcher bdelespino@us.es EMILIO MASCORT ALBEA Professor and Researcher emilio.mascort@gmail.com Uni de Sevilla Uncuyo Universidad Nacional de Cuyo Universidad Nacional de Cuyo GABRIELA PASTOR Mendoza Team Coordinator Professor and Researcher gpastor@mendoza-conicet.gob.ar LAURA TORRES Mendoza Team Coordinator Professor and Researcher ltorres@mendoza-conicet.gob.ar Research Unit ​ Mendoza TELLme Team is an interdisciplinary and interinstitutional group that brings together researchers from different academic units (Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Education) of the National University of Cuyo and also of the Argentine Institute of Arid Zones Research (IADIZA), executing unit of CONICET. The group investigates the transformations of the territories and their affections to rurality from the point of view of the social sciences studying landscapes, heritages and social reproduction. The Mendoza case of study introduces in the TELLme Project the particular expression of the metropolitan territories of dry lands. The irrigated areas -also called rural and urban "oasis"- and the non-irrigated ones are testimonies of the process of decisions made in the construction of the territory by control of access and use of water. The Mendoza case is highly significant to provide specific categories in the understanding and decision making within the framework of metropolitan projects in dry land contexts. FRANCO MARCHIONNI Researcher fmarchionni@mendoza-conicet.gob.ar EMILIA AGNEGNI Researcher eagneni@mendoza-conicet.gob.ar CATALINA BOATO Students catalinaboato@gmail.com LUCIO MARINSALDA Students luciomarinsaldapastor@gmail.com RACHID SAR SAR Students rachidsarsars3@gmail.com DANIEL DE LUCÍA Financial Officer ddelucia@uncu.edu.ar Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Research Unit ​ Mendoza TELLme Team is an interdisciplinary and interinstitutional group that brings together researchers from different academic units (Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Education) of the National University of Cuyo and also of the Argentine Institute of Arid Zones Research (IADIZA), executing unit of CONICET. The group investigates the transformations of the territories and their affections to rurality from the point of view of the social sciences studying landscapes, heritages and social reproduction. The Mendoza case of study introduces in the TELLme Project the particular expression of the metropolitan territories of dry lands. The irrigated areas -also called rural and urban "oasis"- and the non-irrigated ones are testimonies of the process of decisions made in the construction of the territory by control of access and use of water. The Mendoza case is highly significant to provide specific categories in the understanding and decision making within the framework of metropolitan projects in dry land contexts. SAÚL ALCÁNTARA Professor and Researcher tava@us.es TERESA OCEJO UAM Team Coordinator dsanchez@us.es JOSÉ CASTRO Professor and Researcher pedrogorgolas@gmail.com UAM Esta Esta Economia e Sostenibilità MASSIMILLIANO LEPRATTI ESTA Team Coordinator massimiliano.lepratti@assesta.it ANDREA CALORI position andrea.calori@assesta.it FRANCESCA FEDERICI position francesca.federici@assesta.it NGO Coordinator: Massimiliano Lepratti massimiliano.lepratti@assesta.it ​ Mendoza TELLme Team is an interdisciplinary and interinstitutional group that brings together researchers from different academic units (Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Education) of the National University of Cuyo and also of the Argentine Institute of Arid Zones Research (IADIZA), executing unit of CONICET. The group investigates the transformations of the territories and their affections to rurality from the point of view of the social sciences studying landscapes, heritages and social reproduction. The Mendoza case of study introduces in the TELLme Project the particular expression of the metropolitan territories of dry lands. The irrigated areas -also called rural and urban "oasis"- and the non-irrigated ones are testimonies of the process of decisions made in the construction of the territory by control of access and use of water. The Mendoza case is highly significant to provide specific categories in the understanding and decision making within the framework of metropolitan projects in dry land contexts. Esta Uni de Guadalajara Universidad de Guadalajara The Research and Post graduate Coordination The Research and Postgraduate Coordination is the responsible unit for researchers and research groups. Among other activities, this coordination is the link between higher local, national and international bodies that promote research and support the processes of training and development of researchers, as well as promoting disciplinary and teaching update courses. ​ The Research and Postgraduate Coordination has registered the TELLme Project and the researchers and technicians that participate in it, and when it is required, it informs to higher investigation instances, of the activities that are developed in relation to this project. RUBÈN MÀRQUEZ RIZO Researcher rubenmarquitectura@hotmail.com OLGA ClLARISA BECERA MERCADO Researcher olga.becerra@cuaad.udg.mx RAMÒN REYES RODRIGUEZ Guadalajara Team Coordinator Professor and Researcher ramon.reyes@cuaad.udg.mx SOCORRO CAMACHO GARCIA Researcher socorro.camacho@academicos.udg.mx Universidad de Guadalajara Cippec Cippec Cippec Doba Doba DOBA CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

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Protocol Maps Pocidural Maps Mendoza PROTOCOL MAPS Green Gray l 10000 with legend Mendoza PROCIDURAL MAPS (MAPS OF DINAMIC) Pocidural Maps Progressive separation of the Piedemont territory from its economy and cultural/ symbolic features, producing peripherization and unequal and limited acces to resources Speculative investment on Piedemont extracting and concentrating Natural and Urban Resources