Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione

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Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione
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Outline

• The Politecnico, data and structure
• The Department structure and general information
• Research staff and activity
• International activity
• The Strategic Plan
• Conclusion expectations for the Peer Review

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Human Resources, Academic year 2006/2007
Students 36.856 Professors 1.308 Technical
and Administrative Staff 1.055 PhD Students
838
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Faculty Students
24 of graduates in Italy
Architecture
Professors Researchers
Students
306
9441
56 of graduates in Italy
Design
Professors Researchers
Students
103
4285
15 of graduates in Italy
Engineering
Professors Researchers
Students
899
23130
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University Structure
Rector
Evalutation Committee
Direttore Amministrativo
Consiglio di Amministrazione (21)
Academic Senate
Area Directors (12)
College of Department Heads (17)
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The net of the Politecnico di Milano
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Other Campuses
LECCO
CREMONA
COMO
MANTOVA
PIACENZA
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The New System
II Level Master
I Level Master
13-year education
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Schools
Architecture 1st Architecture, Environmental
Architecture, Urban Planning2 Architecture,
Construction Architecture Design Communication,
Fashion, Interior Design,Industrial
Design Engineering 1st Environmental and Land
Planning, Civil 2nd Management, Biomedical,
Physics, Math 3rd Chemical, Electrical,
Materials, Nuclear 4th Aeronautical, Energy,
Mechanical, Transportation 5th Automation,
Electronic, Computer Science, Telecommunication 6
th Building
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Bachelor and Master of Science Programmes

• Bachelor of Science Programmes 32
• Architecture 6
• Design 5
• Engineering 21
• Master of Science Programmes 33
• Architecture 3
• Design 7
• Engineering 23

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Master Courses taught in English
forInternational Students

• Masters of Science in Engineering
• Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
  (Como Campus)Computer Engineering (Como
  Campus)
• Environmental Engineering (Como Campus)
• Building Engineering (Lecco Campus)

Civil Engineering(Lecco Campus) Mechanical
Engineering (Lecco Campus) Materials
Engineering (Milano Leonardo Campus) Computing
Systems Engineering (Milano Leonardo Campus)

• Masters of Science in Design
• Product/Service Systems Design (Milano, Bovisa
  Campus)

• Masters of Science in Architecture
• Architecture (Milano, Leonardo Campus)
• Urban Planning and Policy Design (Milano,
  Leonardo Campus)

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Education and Research
Each Professor belongs to a Department for
his/her research
and to a Study Course and to a School for
his/her teaching
President of the Study Course
Dean of the School
Education
School (Facoltà)
Study Course
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The Department of Architecture and Planning

• Founded in 1982 with the name of Dipartimento di
  Scienze del Territorio
• Transformed in 2000 in DiAP with the joining of
  various groups having the objective of becoming a
  more interdisciplinary department, capable of
  coping with urban and territorial problems at
  different scales and from different perspectives
• Today is the second largest Department in the
  Politecnico di Milano and the largest in the
  field of Architecture

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DiAP Governance Structure

• Head of the Department, prof. Alessandro Balducci
  
• is responsible of the management and represents
  the Department
• Vice Head, formal substitute of the Head Prof.
  Remo Dorigati
• Executive Board (Giunta di Dipartimento)
• Dept. Head and Vice-Head plus the following
  professors Corinna Morandi (internationalisation)
  , Costanzo Ranci (personnel), Gabriele Pasqui
  (budget), Paolo Bossi, Andrea Rolando, Carolina
  De Biase, Giovanna Fossa, Giovanni Denti, Matteo
  Bolocan
• preparing or implementing the Department
  Councils decisions
• Department Council, decision-making body
• Scientific Committee, presided by prof. Antonio
  Tosi, 7 members reperesenting different sections
• preparing decisions about scientific matters
  (research fellowship, Department Conference,
  scientific production review, etc.)

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Relevant dimensions teaching and research staff

• 36 research fellows Co-funded Ateneo/Diap 11
  FSE 6
• Self-funded (public or private research
  contract) 19
• 102 PhD students
• More than 290 contract professors

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Relevant dimensions sections
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Relevant dimensions non teaching staff
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Infrastructures

• 4 different buildings for 6,400 sq mt
• Via Bonardi central offices
• Via Golgi
• Piazza Leonardo da Vinci
• Via Gran Sasso
• 4 Libraries
• Main library (planning) Via Golgi
• History and Conservation Via Gran Sasso
• Library Liliana Grassi via Gran Sasso
• Technical Planning Piazza Leonardo da Vinci

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Research lines and Laboratories

• 6 research lines
• 1 Territorial Governance and Planning
• 2 Time, mobility and safety planning
• 3 History of architecture and restoration
• 4 Mobility and territory
• 5 Regional, urban and environmental planning
• 6 Architecture and Urban design
• Members of the staff can form permanent or
  temporary Research Laboratories according to long
  term research programmes or to specific research
  projects.
• Currently we have in activity about 40
  Laboratories (3 special labs Modelling,
  Diagnosis, Visual communication)

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Research and Consultancy

• Main contractors are
• Italian Ministry of the University and CNR
• National Government
• European Union
• Italian municipalities, provinces and regions
• Private firms,
• Bank foundations
• Research institutes (such as Irer),
• Consultancy companies,
• Developers,
• Training centres (such as Formez),
• Consortia
• Metis, established in 2001, with 5 research
  centers to develop cooperation in the field of
  applied urban studies
• Tempi della Città with other universities and
  public administrations to develop studies and
  onsultancy in this field
• Centers
• CAAP Center for the Public Adminisrations
  (directed by Prof. Bruno Dente) together with
  other Departments at Poli to develop joint
  research programmes

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Research and Consultancy sources of funding

A decrease in traditional public funding
(Ministry and CNR) compensated by private
research and consultancy contracts and European
projects
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Research and Consultancy sources of funding
Funding sources in 2007 (5/12/2007)

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Doctoral programs

• Phd in URBAN PROJECTS AND POLICIESCoordinator
  Prof. Faustino Curti
• 2. Phd in SPACIAL PLANNING AND URBAN
  DEVELOPMENT
• Coordinator Prof. Sandro Balducci
• 3. Phd in PRESERVATION OF ARCHITECTURAL
  HERITAGE
• Coordinator Prof. Alberto Grimoldi
• 4. PhD in URBAN AND ARCHITECTURAL
  DESIGNCoordinator Prof. Ilaria Valente
• DiAP Promotes the Giovanni Ferraro National
  Prize for Doctoral Dissertations in Planning
  which reached the 7th edition

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Publications

• DiAP publishes "Territorio" a quarterly
  recognized journal in the field of planning, and
  urban projects, funded in 1988 (as the Journal of
  DST) and from then regularly issued.
• The Editor is the Head of the Department, it has
  an Editorial Board and an International
  Scientific Board, it publishes normally articles
  in Italian, but also in English and French.

The Department has also two different series of
publications Quaderni and Collana DiAP intended
to diffuse research results.
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Conferences and Seminars

• Every year the Department promotes a intense
  programme of national and international Seminars
  approved by the Department Council
• Every two years it organizes a major event in the
  form of a Conference with papers aimed at
  mobilizing all the department resources to deal
  with a relevant social or territorial issue.
• The first Conference has been in 2004 titled
  Milano dopo la Metropoli (about 60 papers)
• The second in 2006 Progetti di
  infrastrutturazione nella regione urbana
  milanese (70 papers)
• The organisation of the next 2008 Conference has
  recently started
• The Department is also organising in 2008 the
  European Urban Research Association (EURA)
  Conference Learning Cities in a knowledge Based
  Society

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International activities

• Member of the Association of European School of
  Planning (AESOP), of the European Urban Research
  Association (EURA), of the Regional Science
  Association (AISRE) of the Istituto Nazionale
  di Urbanistica (INU) and it is the registered
  office of the Società Italiana degli Urbanisti
  (SIU).
• Socrates, Teaching Staff Mobility, Leonardo,
  Intensive exchange Programmes
• Two Laboratories for International Cooperation
• - Laboratorio di Cooperazione allo sviluppo
  (mostly Latin America and Africa)
• - Estlab (mostly eastern European Countries)
• DiAP has been recently winner of the Atlantis
  bid, a major UE/USA funding programme supporting
  student and staff exchanges with UIC Chicago and
  UWE Bristol for Planning students.
• Regular Newsletter on International activities

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Internationalization Project

In 2005 we have approved a project to fund
international activities in this context

• The Environmental Simulation Laboratory set by
  prof. Beter Bossellman UC Berkeley, Hanoi
  University, Fellowship with MIT
• The two Labs for International cooperation a
  first project is being funded in Cuba
• The participation to the Tender for The Dubai
  Urban Development Plan
• An International Lecture Series

• - The funding for supporting the preparation of
  VII Framework proposals
• The support for the training of the
  administrative Staff
• The Council has decided to re-fund for the next
  two years the Internationalisation project

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DiAP 2010 The Department Strategic Plan

• Strated in 2006 with the objective of reflecting
  upon the Dept. Identity, Mission, Aims
• General Workshops and Working groups to develop a
  strategic Agenda
• Main strengths
• trans-disciplinary character
• a prominent position in some fields
• a good international network
• a positive reputation in the society at large
• Main weaknesses
• the great dimension and the difficulty of
  cooperation between areas
• the great pressure upon the administrative
  structure
• the ageing of the teaching staff
• Values agreed to be preserved
• autonomy responsibility pluralism openness
  transparency participation

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DiAP 2010 The Department Strategic Plan

• Strategic orientations
• New instruments for cooperation
• A strategy for generational change
• Stabilisation of precarious jobs
• Organizational innovation
• Internationalization
• Enhance civil and public role of the Department
• Favour research experimentation
• Clarifying better the relation with Metis
• Communication and dissemination of research
  products
• Sustain the young academics research
• A project for merging and coordinating PhD
  Programmes
• Sustaining Masters courses and permanent
  education
• An integrated project for the 4 libraries
• A reference service for on-line resources and
  data-bases
• Efficiency of computer services
• A department internal and external communication
  strategy

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DiAP 2010 The Department Strategic Plan

• 17. Re-launching Territorio and other
  publications
• 18. Defining a pluriennal investment strategy
• 19. Budget flexibility for research projects
• 20. Helping the access to resources for all the
  disciplinary areas
• 21. Develop co-funding system from research
  fellowships to Masters etc.
• On many orientations we have been already active
• A strong policy for new research fellowships and
  assistant professors
• An independent initiative of technical personnel
  to develop open sources for research
• The re-funding of the internationalisation
  project
• A committee for the re-organisation of PhDs
• Co-funding of Masters
• Re-organisation of libraries
• New technical staff for computer and network
  services
• A project for the coordinated image of the Dept.
• Data-base for scientific credentials
• 2008 Department Conference
• Multiple training programmes for the staff

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The Peer Review

• The Peer Review preparation has been so far
  extremely interesting to give information and
  awareness of the many activities of the research
  groups
• It has been also a positive push to reflect upon
  possible aggregations and links between groups
• We are in a transition phase from a University
  model in which professionals or ivory tower
  intellectuals came to the university just to
  teach and to do some publicly funded research, to
  a phase in which the Department is the place of
  investment for all the staff, where research
  and teaching are strictly intertwined, and that
  is a relevant actor committed to serve the
  society
• We are sure that you, with your expertise and
  external vision can help us in pursuing this
  objective

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The Peer Review

• In the first months of 2008 the Peer Review
  process has come to its conclusion. It involved
  the whole Politecnico of Milano through a direct
  benchmarking of every Department with its
  international same level equivalent.
• DiAP has been evaluated by a panel of
  internationally reknown experts
• Patsy Healey, chair of Committee, Newcastle
  University
• Patrick Le Galès, Cevipof of Sciences Po Paris
• Antonio Font, Universitat Politècnica de
  Catalunya
• Francisco Barata Fernandez, University of Oporto
• Jean-Michel Leniaud, Ecole Pratique des Hautes
  Etudes, Sorbonne
• The production of a self-evaluation report has
  been complemented with visits and meetings within
  the 24 groups of the 6 research lines of DiAP.
• The results are positive Politecnico has been
  valuated as Good at international level.
• Concerning DiAP
• 98 of teachers participated to Peer Review (94
  is the average for Politecnico).
• 63 of research groups have been valuated as
  Excellent or Good at international level (55 is
  the average for Politecnico).
• 70 of DiAP teachers belong to groups valuated
  as Excellent or Good (64 is the average for
  Politecnico).