After successful completion of the course, students are able to understand hsouing as a heterogenious ensemble that is formed by various factors; the course understands "design" as a research-based and reflexive approach to develop speculative proposals for prospective practices and architectures of housing and residential living.
Rome is a city that has seen everything. In the history of the Eternal City, we find almost all themes of architecture and spatial development: Tabula Rasa, rapid growth, reuse, continuation, radical breaks, hybrid of architecture and landscape, shrinkage. Today, Rome stands for a seemingly ungovernable city, in which, in addition to the constant infrastructural problems, more and more residential and settlement space has become a commodity and a plaything for the interests of various powers. Global tourism and new migration create and challenge their spaces. For a growing part of the population, the housing question becomes an existential question. New activists within civil society are resisting and have found and invented other formats of economically affordable co-living in order to be able to give their needs, but also wishes and new ways of life, a spatial form.
On the basis of analyzes of the city, its (residential) typologies and the current processes, in exchange and meeting with actors from the world of architecture, theory, art, culture, politics, civil society, an awareness of the Genius Loci and the various codes of the city should be developed. Based on concrete locations in Rome, new strategies and drafts for typologies for "more than living", meaning living spaces in the broadest sense, are to emerge that do justice to the spirit of this city as well as to the will of contemporary architecture. The excursion to Rome / Naples sees itself as a starting point and incubator of a journey of discovery to always relevant topics of architecture.
