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The structure of the program allows the separate frequency of the single modules in form of post-graduate courses offered by the Continuous Formation Program (Foundation UCP).
At the end of every didactic module, a certificate of frequency (for 100-hours modules) or a post-graduate diploma (for 150-hours or more modules) will be released by the Foundation UCP. It is possible this way to choose year by year the activities and post-graduate diplomas according with the preferences of the participants.
The accumulated credits can be spent in the Master Program at the moment of the registration.

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LABORATORY SYSTEMS FOR GREEN AREAS: FROM URBAN TO NATURAL GREEN SPACES
_01 MODULE 150 hours
Cases of Modern Movement plans which do not strictly concern the architectural construction are rare. In the functionalist plans, “urban green spaces” were considered a mono-functional area, with facilities and services, which could be constructed according to consolidated models, in exactly the same way as the residential, industrial areas, etc. Nevertheless, throughout the building of contemporary cities, from Fredrick Olmsted to Ebenezer Howard, many episodes witness the assignment of a precise value to open space design. As from the environmental movement of the 60s, but especially thanks to the fact that landscape architecture has progressed to a wide-scale discipline, what was considered merely as an indistinct green net by planning, has now become something concrete for the planner: an environmental pre-existence, a complex system of relationships between hydrogeological and botanical structures, to be understood and interpreted with the most advanced scientific disciplines, as well as to be re-planned on the basis of its valorization with respect to human settlements too.

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LABORATORY NUOVI USI PER ANTICHI TERRITORI: IL TURISMO _02 MODULE 150 hours
Tourism represents the second biggest world industry, placing itself after oil extraction and processing. A phenomenon in full growth if one considers that almost half the population of the world moves away from their home territory for touristic reasons, of which one sixth away from the country they live in. On the one hand this has given rise to a specific new economy, analyzed, programmed and managed by the important tourist operators, whilst on the other it has become a synonym for free use of the territories, for contact between the different cultures of the world. The flow of this true and proper widespread migratory phenomenon finds the main art cities and naturalistic destinations unprepared, thus triggering anthropological, environmental, urban and infrastructural issues. Entire territories are re-interpreted offering their availability to new functionalities which must take into account the valorization and respect of the local culture and landscape.

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INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR _03a MODULE 100 hours
Ten consecutive days to investigate a specific case study with a multidisciplinary group of teachers and students. It is possible to replace the international seminar with other optional formative activities as the Intensive International Course in Barcellona, trips of study and landscape itineraries.

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LABORATORY PLAN FOR THE WATER SYSTEMS: COASTS, RIVERS, AGRICULTURE _04 MODULE 150 hours
It is known that, as for climate forcings, water systems and geomorphological order connote the geography of the territory. For architecture, water has ceased to be considered a simply ornamental element, becoming instead a factor unifying and structuring the landscape. Only recently have we become aware that the very biological diversities present thanks to the surfacing of water give rise to a rich habitat, an added value to the land which must be protected and promoted. Therefore, recognizing and controlling the interactions between the environmental systems not only allows us to rebuild the anthropical story, but also to address the future evolution of a landscape, through choices programmed for the different levels. From small natural water courses to large infrastructures, management of the “resource water”, especially fresh water, has now become a matter of international politics, due to the fact that it questions economies historically based on agriculture as well as survival of the cities and territorieso.

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LABORATORY THE PUBLIC SPACE PROJECT _05 MODULE 150 hours
Lavorare Nowadays, working on public spaces represents a planning challenge and reason for thought. Whilst indeed, on the one hand society experiences the dramatic loss of belonging to collective and shared values, of the concept of “public”, on the other, the unspecified extension of the sense of urbanity even to the country-side, other than naturalistic settings, seen in architecture in the widespread use of typological models and uniform materials produced by semifinished products industry, is able to uniform the space, diminish the differences and demean the context. New areas of goods and experience consumption have substituted local markets and public gardens, large transport infrastructures, roads and avenues lined with trees as well as the telematic squares have taken the place of urban squares…The traditional models to which the the public spaces were linked are going through an identity crisis due to their very nature; a crisis which planners are summoned to sort out by sensible reconstruction, beginning from the intrinsic qualities of the spaces.

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DISSERTATION SEMINAR _03b MODULE 50 hours
The Masters dissertation concludes the formative course and may deal with various different topics having planning characteristics, provided it is related to one of the themes treated on the course. The thesis may also be followed by an external lecturer, and accompanied by the tutor or Masters Directors and will be discussed with the appointed board of examiners.

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