{"id":202,"date":"2017-04-05T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T15:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/designingcities\/?p=202"},"modified":"2017-04-05T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T15:34:09","slug":"intrepid-urban-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/designingcities\/2017\/04\/intrepid-urban-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"INTREPID URBAN FUTURES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Designing Cities is an innovative interdisciplinary programme between architecture and planning. It has been set up in response to the evolution of the professional practice more in demand\u00a0of urban designers. It responds also to the broader need\u00a0to implement real interdisciplinary and trandisciplinary programmes to tackle contemporary\u00a0societal challenges, such as climate change, technological innovations and bottom-up democracy in urban\u00a0transformations. For this reason staff from the University of Westminster have been\u00a0involved in a EU funded COST Action called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intrepid-cost.eu\">INTREPID<\/a>\u00a0on Interdisciplinary in Urban Studies since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>On the 24th of March 2017 the Department of Urban Planning and Transport at the University of Westminster hosted an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intrepid-cost.eu\/london-workshop\/\">INTREPID workshop<\/a> to discuss the future of universities and knowledge for sustainable urban futures. Scholars and practitioners from the UK, France, Portugal, Italy and Luxembourg gathered together. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/directory\/woltjer-johan\">Johan Woltjer<\/a>, Professor and Head of Planning and Transport, opened the workshop explaining\u00a0how interdisciplinary\u00a0urban knowledge is delivered at the University of Westminster and stressing how this can ensure the achievement of\u00a0urban wellbeing. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/directory\/verdini-giulio\">Giulio Verdini<\/a>, Course Leader of the BA Designing Cities and Olivia Bina, Deputy-Director of the Institute of Social Science in Lisbon, chaired the workshop. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/directory\/papa-enrica\">Enrica Papa<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/directory\/mathewson-david\">David Mathewson<\/a>, respectively involved in the MSc\u00a0in Transport Planning and Management and MA in International Planning and Sustainable Development\u00a0at\u00a0the University of Westminster, also joined.<\/p>\n<p>The lively discussion during the day placed emphasis on the efforts done by universities today to break the silos of knowledge and to embark into new interdisciplinary approaches. Great attention was also given to the need of co-creating knowledge with the society, through the experimentation of civic engagement tools. In this respect, Designing Cities is\u00a0testing new forms of community engagement through participatory design workshops. In summer 2017 a workshop on &#8216;Creative Towns&#8217; will be organised in the South of Italy, in Calabria, where selected students will have the chance to engage with local communities finding together solutions for urban regeneration and sustainable local development.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporter: Giulio Verdini. Pictures:\u00a0\u00a9 Giulio Verdini)<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-205 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/designingcities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/04\/IMG_7349-copy-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_7349-copy\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-206 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/designingcities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/04\/IMG_7366-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_7366\" width=\"839\" height=\"629\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designing Cities is an innovative interdisciplinary programme between architecture and planning. It has been set up in response to the evolution of the professional practice more in demand\u00a0of urban designers. 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