Summer school ‘Cities with(out) water’ in Pisa
The International Summer School “The City and the Water”, is since 2014 a Full-Time Design Workshop, aimed at investigating the complex relationships between the built environment and the water, in its broadest meaning and therefore including seaside, rivers, lakes and water resources. The Summer School is organized over two weeks and hosted in Pisa, Italy by the Department of Energy, Systems, Territory, and Constructions Engineering of the University of Pisa.
- Summer school “Cities with(out) water”
- School of Engineering, University of Pisa (Italy)
- 25-08-2025 06-09-2025
The students, coming from all continents, will be engaged in the development of a case study, with the support of professors and tutors from the University of Pisa and visiting professors from other national and international schools of architecture, engineering and landscape design.
The title of the 2025 edition is “Cities with(out) water”. The first part of the Summer School will be dedicated to the critical reading and knowledge of the study areas, in order to identify their value and criticalities. On the remaining days, the students will work on the development of an enhancement of the area that is chosen as a case study. Throughout the period, lectures will be organised to provide theoretical and methodological support for project development. The ideas and drawings developed during the Summer School will be presented in a public exhibition.
Application deadline: 2 May 2025