RESEARCH

Research activities concern architectural and urban design; they concentrate on nationally and internationally key areas. Main field of interest are actually:
  • Tradition and Modernity: building on the existing
  • New strategies in urban renewal
  • Future habitats and social housing

The research is strengthened by cooperation with internationally leading universities and research centres. Examples of particularly successful projects in recent years are, in the framework of the EU-Culture Programmes, the results of following activities:

  • Bringing Together (Iran, 2005-2006)
  • Caravan. Culture on move (Iran, 2006-2007)
  • Along the Silk Road (Iran, 2007-2009)
  • Cultures of Living (India, 2008-2010)
  • City Cultures on Focus (Turkey, 2010-2012)
  • Seeking out Urban Culture (Romany-Turkey, in progress)

Participation in networks serves both to bring cooperation partners together and to increase international visibility. For this reason in 1996 he founded ARCDES as inter-disciplinary research centre. ARCDES supports today cooperation with universities, research institutions and industry, in order to widen its research profile and acquire additional research funding. Its goal is to strengthen its own research and to enrich the economic and scientific landscape in the city of Ferrara and in the entire region.