Circular economy

The course aims to teach students to read, study and design the territory through the approach of the circularity of metabolic flows. The circular economy and circular planning, within this course, are read through the key of decarbonisation, i.e. how and how much these processes can contribute to climate neutrality at different scales. The course will be based on the need to know, understand and design the metabolic dynamics that go through the territory shaping it. The concepts of "cycle", "circularity" and "metabolism", borrowed from the natural sciences, will have to be taken up and rethought by the students for the territorial and urban dimension of a case study area. Through the combination of different knowledge the students will be called upon to confront the main global challenges, demonstrating a critical approach aimed at the realisation of a growing circular metabolism of the territory and the city