ABCPhD CALL4SCHOLARSHIP 33Research topic: Constructing place and community: the complementary relationship between architectural and urban design in towns and villages of the Pontine Marshes.(33- Annex 1.7)

ABCPhD DOCTORAL PROGRAMIN ARCHITECTURE BUILT ENVIRONMENTAND CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING

POLITECNICO MILANO 1863 - Doctoral Program in Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering

ABC PhD Programme – CALL 4 SCHOLARSHIPS 33Research Topic: Constructing place and community: the complementary relationship between architectural and urban design in towns and villages of the Pontine Marshes

• Number of scholarships: 1 (one)• Monthly net income: €. 1.012,00 (max 36 months)

[In case of a change of the welfare rates during the three-year period, the amount could be slightly modified]

• Additional support: Funding for educational activities(*) : € 1.370 per student [for the 2nd and 3rd year]

• Starting of PhD activity: 1/11/2017• Deadline for application to the call: 11/09/2017• Research Director: Cristina Pallini• Research Group: Cristina Pallini, Francesca Bonfante, Nora Lombardini• Funding and cooperating Institutions: the scholarship is funded by Politecnico di

Milano, Department ABC

Funding and management of the thematic scholarships

(*) (purchase of study books and material, funding for participation in courses, summer schools, workshops, conferences)

POLITECNICO MILANO 1863 - Doctoral Program in Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering

ABC PhD Programme – CALL 4 SCHOLARSHIPS 33Research Topic: Constructing place and community: the complementary relationship between architectural and urban design in towns and villages of the Pontine Marshes

This research will be part of the Project MODSCAPES, funded by the HERA Programme (Humanities in European Research Area) in the framework of the HERA JRP call “Uses of the Past”. The MODSCAPES consortium includes experts in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, planning, art history, and anthropology:

• Project Leader: ULB Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculty of Architecture, Belgium (FNRS)• PI 2: Politecnico di Milano, Dept. of Architecture, Built Env. and Constr. Engineering (C. Pallini)• PI 3: Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Artística do Porto, Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo• PI 4: TU Berlin, Dept. of Arch. and Urban History, Inst. of Arch., Fac. IV Planning Building

Environment• PI 5: Estonian University of Life Sciences: Inst. of Agr. and Envir. Science, Dept. of Landscape

Arch.• Associated partners: DOCOMOMO International (Lisbon), ECLAS European Council of

Landscape Architecture Schools (Vienna), CIVILSCAPE (Bonn)

Context of the research activity

POLITECNICO MILANO 1863 - Doctoral Program in Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering

ABC PhD Programme – CALL 4 SCHOLARSHIPS 33Research Topic: Constructing place and community: the complementary relationship between architectural and urban design in towns and villages of the Pontine Marshes

MODSCAPES deals with rural landscapes produced by large-scale agricultural development and colonization schemes planned in the 20th century throughout Europe and beyond. Conceived in different political and ideological contexts, such schemes were pivotal to nation-building policies. They provided a testing ground for the ideas and tools of environmental and social scientists, architects, engineers, planners, landscape architects and artists, which converged around a common challenge. Their implementation produced new rural landscapes, which have seldom been considered as a transnational research topic. Hence, MODSCAPES aims to raise awareness around this shared cultural heritage which stands today as a tangible evidence of recent European history.Introducing the concept of landscape as a unifying paradigm for a trans-disciplinary approach to the built environment and intangible legacies (the related cultural and socio-political context), this project aims to bridge research, practice, and policies. Hence, it aspires to test research outcomes against the current challenges faced by modern rural landscapes as a resource for future ‘reflective societies’ and ‘inclusive environments’ (Horizon 2020).

Motivation and objectives of the research

POLITECNICO MILANO 1863 - Doctoral Program in Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering

ABC PhD Programme – CALL 4 SCHOLARSHIPS 33Research Topic: Constructing place and community: the complementary relationship between architectural and urban design in towns and villages of the Pontine Marshes

Educational objectivesAt the end of the Doctoral Programme, the Candidate will have expertise in issues related to the optimization of SHM systems for structures and infrastructure aimed at their integrity management.

Knowledge on innovative SHM techniques based on strain nanosensors will also be acquired and will be valuable for the construction market and, in particular, for those private or public companies involved in asset maintenance of structures and infrastructures.

Besides acquiring skills in the field of research development and management, it is expected that the candidate will develop a publication record in recognized international journals and conferences.

POLITECNICO MILANO 1863 - Doctoral Program in Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering

ABC PhD Programme – CALL 4 SCHOLARSHIPS 33Research Topic: Constructing place and community: the complementary relationship between architectural and urban design in towns and villages of the Pontine Marshes

Methods and techniques that will be used to carry out the researchMODSCAPES combines research-driven and bottom-up participatory activities based on the collection, treatment, elaboration, and critical discussion of visual data and multiple narratives regarding. Thus, MODSCAPES’ research methodology combines archival and fieldwork research with bottom-up data collection. The novel element here is the comparative methods, for which there is an urgent need. To achieve this, research is being carried out in five core thematic research-driven Work Packages (WPs 1 to 5) carried out under the scientific supervision of one leading and one supporting partner, each following an ad hoc research protocol. WPs 1 to 4 (Documenting Agricultural Development Colonisation Projects /Schemes ; Physical legacies ; Sociocultural impacts ; Memories and perceptions ) are conceived to consolidate research-driven and bottom-up knowledge around the topic, while WP5 (Changes and challenges) aims to open new policy-oriented and design-oriented research directions in the field.

POLITECNICO MILANO 1863 - Doctoral Program in Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering

ABC PhD Programme – CALL 4 SCHOLARSHIPS 33Research Topic: Constructing place and community: the complementary relationship between architectural and urban design in towns and villages of the Pontine Marshes

At the end of the research project the candidate will have acquired skills and expertise to operate in the fields of architectural and urban design.

Skills of the candidate

Job opportunitiesThese will concern five focus areas suggested in the call:

• Changing uses of (different) pasts.• Uses of the past for identity construction and institutional embedding of norms and values.• Uses of the past in media, material culture and public space. (>>> WP4).• Uses of the past: transnational/international/national and regional dimension, including globalization.

(Throughout)• Uses of the past: impact on solving current problems, decision making and future policies.

In addition, modscapes attributes a central importance to dissemination and knowledge exchange activities. It engages with diversified audiences, from scholars and academia, to broad public.