Disciplinary area: Civil Engineering and Architecture, Earth Sciences, Biological Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, - Archaeological Sciences

Departments involved: Architettura, Design e Urbanistica, Chimica e Farmacia, Scienza dell’Uomo e della Formazione, Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche (UNICA)

Brief description:
The environmental issue requires rethinking forms and ways of living around concepts of environmental sustainability and various scales, from spatial planning and transport systems, management of biotic and abiotic resources and ecosystems, energy, water and soil, sustainable design, architectural philosophy and methodology of the project, of urban recovery and regeneration up to the design of the objects and communication.
The doctorate aims to train a researcher able to understand the built spaces and their relationships with the environment and landscape to design their management and transformation.

INFORMATION ON THE PH.D. COURSE
The aim of the school is to train high-profile professional and research figures qualified for the management of the project at different scales, from urban / territorial - with particular attention to the environmental dynamics and the forms - process that characterize them - to the architectural one, through methods, techniques and tools for the reading, interpretation, representation and management of different project contexts, based on the deepening of the various aspects of the disciplines that contribute - traditionally and not - to the project of the city and the territory, up to on the scale of the object and design.

KEY INFORMATION
- Disciplinary area: Civil Engineering and Architecture, Earth Sciences, Biological Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, - Archaeological Sciences
- Department: Architettura, Design e Urbanistica, Chimica e Farmacia, Scienza dell’Uomo e della Formazione, Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche (UNICA)
- Coordinator: Prof. Fabio Bacchini
- Venue: Architettura, Design e Urbanistica (sede amministrativa), Chimica e Farmacia, Scienza dell’Uomo e della Formazione - External structures in Italy and abroad
- Type of lessons: frontal and practical lessons
- Language: Italian - English
- ECTS: 180

OVERVIEW
Brief description:
The environmental question requires rethinking forms and ways of living around concepts of environmental sustainability and the various scales, from spatial planning and transport systems, management of biotic and abiotic resources and ecosystems, energy, water and soil, sustainable design, architectural philosophy and methodology of the project, of urban recovery and regeneration up to the design of objects and communication.
The doctorate aims to train a researcher able to understand the built spaces and their relationships with the environment and landscape to design their management and transformation. This requires a systemic and multidisciplinary approach: the disciplinary barriers with their exclusionary theories do not allow to address the issue of sustainability in an integrated way.
The doctorate is themed and interdisciplinary, but is coherent with contents, objectives and methodological approach. It is centered on architecture and on the environmental project of space starting from adequate naturalistic knowledge.
The goal is to make concrete sustainability dealing with material and immaterial objects in relation to the structures and functions of the ecosystem, but also to redevelop, recover, restore, rethink, reuse, recycle, reduce
Rethink and recapitulate the story, rework it, relive it; redesign the city and its territory, the landscape and the environment in reciprocal relationships, its shape and its objects, with a sense of limit, of saving, of equity, of solidarity.

Teaching goals:
The aim of the school is to train high-profile professional and research figures qualified for the management of the project at different scales, from urban / territorial - with particular attention to the environmental dynamics and the forms - process that characterize them - to the architectural one, through methods, techniques and tools for the reading, interpretation, representation and management of different project contexts, based on the deepening of the various aspects of the disciplines that contribute - traditionally and not - to the project of the city and the territory, up to on the scale of the object and design.
The research doctor you want to train can find a place in the field of research, teaching, profession and public administration in management positions, coordination, management and procurement of funds. An operator of a high cultural and technical level able to face with appropriate awareness and preparation the problems currently posed by the complexity of the urban and territorial reality and in particular by the environmental crisis and by a "sustainable development" such as:
- the living and the evolution of the built
- the historical architectural and archaeological heritage
- city and countryside
- the city of rights
- environment, territory and landscape
- geology, botany, pedology and ecology as foundations of the territory
- the many dimensions of the project and the plan
- objects that make us intelligent.

Expected employment and professional opportunities
The 2015 Alma Laurea survey is confirmed. Research graduates who have obtained the title in the last three years (XXVI XXVII XXVIII cycle) in Architecture and the Environment are holders of research grants, freelancers, researchers in universities or foreign research. However, it should be emphasized that the ease of finding employment is often accompanied by long periods of contractual stabilization and professional enhancement, both in reference to their employment performance within the national productive fabric, where the PhD title still struggled to be appreciated.

Language
This PhD course includes 3 compulsory common courses taught entirely in English aimed at improving communication and oral comprehension and the use of scientific English in terms of: i) reading and understanding of scientific texts; ii) writing of scientific texts; iii) oral communication in scientific forums.
All courses are taught with bilingual material - Italian / English - and teachers use both languages during lessons.
PhD students can attend the University Linguistic Center for a linguistic study.
Laboratories, facilities, libraries, and databases
The Departments that contribute to the operation of the Course - Department of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning and Chemistry and Pharmacy - have laboratories equipped with instruments for analysis in the open field and in a controlled environment, as well as experimental fields and positions for monitoring and manipulation of environmental conditions. There are workshops in Architecture, Urban Planning, Earth Sciences, Ecology, Botany and Pedology. Furthermore, IT laboratories are present. PhD students have free access to the University Library System http://sba.uniss.it/, with: • 40,500 electronic journals in subscription; 10,000 free on the Web • 52 databases and other electronic publications on subscription; 600 free on the Web • 14,500 e-books • Digital products of the University's scientific research in the UnissResearch institutional archive (10,500 publications including PhD theses).

REQUIREMENTS
Education: master's degree
Selection process: Public call with evaluation of qualifications, research project and interview
Language: knowledge of the English language is required for admission to the course.