The LOL Landscape Of[f] Limits Summer School organized at Piacenza Campus is configured as an international workshop in which approximately 100 selected students from other Italian and foreign universities participate.
The workshop is intensive and takes place in the first two weeks of September. The first edition was inaugurated in 2010 and over the years an intense and experimental teaching and research experience has developed aimed at:
- develop the international identity of the School, both in the involvement of students and teachers from other universities, and in thematic approaches;
- discuss the prospects for transformation and development of contemporary cities and territories in a moment of strong crisis, taking the Piacenza reality as an exemplary case study;
- innovate the teaching methods of the discipline, towards the application of forms of interaction and comparison in architectural and landscape design with a heterogeneous panel of teachers and team leaders.
It is a very intense experience both from an educational and social point of view due to the strong interaction between students, teachers and industry experts involved.
The selected students participate daily in design ateliers where, in groups, they develop a project under the close supervision of team leaders (expert founders and partners of international architecture firms). Attendance is compulsory and takes place in the Pavilions of the Arata Campus where students can use all the Campus services (library, laboratories, sports facilities, etc.).
A digital platform functions as a document collector, in order to stimulate the sharing of drawings and materials during the workshop activities.
The workshop ends with the presentation by each group of the project and the exhibition of the elaborate products followed by the ceremony of delivery of the certificates of participation.
2024 edition - 2 - 13 September, 2024
For the 2024 edition the organizing team has chosen an ambitious theme with the aim of examining the landscape through the lens of conflict, challenging the way we interact with it and questioning place-making practices on types of territory that they have complex and contested narratives and histories. This includes areas of great importance, as well as those subject to issues such as extraction, social, cultural or political issues, and resistance.
The 2024 team leader will guide students to take a critical look at how we describe and interpret places where conflict occurs.