They will address issues of climate change and its ecological as well as socio-economic consequences for the built environment, the energy transition with regard to the renovation of existing buildings and building culture, the scarcity of resources and the circular economy, digitalization and its opportunities for new construction production, but also questions of rapid global urbanization, the advancing demographic - and employment-related change and its impact on the planning of new living environments and spaces.

About the course

While centering around post-military abandoned structures the studio work will rethink rehabilitation and reprogramming of these buildings while at the same time focusing on fragile ecosystem of Adriatic basin where we base our topic. In this work we will look for hidden narratives, investigate sensory experience and study species in order to create scenarios that could foresee the future of coexistence in the Adriatic.