The master's degree course has taken a leading role in addressing the challenges of global change in urban, territorial and environmental contexts through a multidisciplinary, integrated and interactive approach, aimed at building sustainable and resilient design strategies that jointly combine technique and creativity in supporting planning and design of living places in the global north and south.
The course trains specialists in urban and territorial planning and design able to to handle "complex problems" with reference to the city, the territory, the landscape.
The presence of the University of Florence's scholars best competences, together with collaborations with academic and research institutions from all over the world, makes it possible fro the students develop an in-depth knowledge in the innovative management of urban and territorial assets and metabolisms at different scales and about manifold matters (water, energy, food cycle), in the framework of local and circular economies that enhance common goods. During the two years of the course, the coordination between the theoretical knowledge of the frontal courses and the project activities of the five Laboratories is particularly aimed to activate a constant dialogue between theoretical issues and planning practices. That particularly interacting with public administrations and local actors and setting up Living Lab like design activity. Laboratories allow to experiment, integrate and test the methodologies and techniques of urban planning -also enabling skills on GIS based tools- with those of river redevelopment, ecology and agroecology, , architecture, technology, economics, landscape, agroforestry sciences and many others. That with the aim toforma multifaceted professional figure capable of responding to the design challenges of the contemporary world.
