This is done by creating a learning environment that incites students and their educators  to respond to global challenges whilst creating conditions to locally engage as active citizens in their communities.  

The goal of the  architectural department is to support students developing knowledge, skills, traits, attitudes, and behaviours necessary for becoming ethical professionals and cosmopolitan citizens, by advancing new political agencies to co-design healthier, safer, and a fairer world, in a changing social, ecological, and political environment.  

These exhibited students’ projects speak of architectures that emphasize the plural, collective and collaborative nature of the practice of architecture. Architectures can be used in multiple ways; as critical processes of inquiry, as vehicles to raise social awareness, as tools for collective imagination, and as a collaborative project aimed at caring for and repairing the spaces for the common good. These projects use architectures as an instrument for care.  

Massimo Santanicchia, PhD 

Head of the Department of Architecture  

Sahar Ghaderi, PhD 

 Programme director of the Master in Architecture