Current changes In Western society affect more and more the choices related to the project, both in
relationship with the specific geo-political, economical, structural conditions and with their different scales. The challenge In project concerns the whole anthropic environment as never had happened in the past. All those who are involved in project MI more and more seriously think over it and change their cultural course, at all scales of project.

The awareness of these transformations is the starting point for this conference, in which this complex subject will be articulated into some main themes.
The post-modern society creates in the cities the abandonment of inhabitants, due not only to the prohibitive material conditions out to a real sense of fear (see Z. Bauman).

The main topics of the two days of meeting will concern:
- the changes of the Western and Eastern European society (with some references to non European Eastern countries); methodologies and strategies aimed to promote processes of transformation towards a new quality for the territory and of the city;
- the relationship of the theoretical and methodological approaches with the policies related to the characters of specific territories.

In every term of the conference, two main reports will tack e these subjects and some shorter reports will describe some specific aspects. The workshop of the third day will summaryze the contents of the meeting, also laying the basis for the next big conference of 2006, in which the problems related with the current "changes" will be referred to specific situations society (i.e. in «cities of art).

PROGRAMME updated on 24/11/2005

November 30 : main topics, methods, strategies
Morning 9.00 a.m.
Theme 1 Architectural and urban design related to the current urban and territorial changes in different contexts: Western and Eastern Europe
Cesare Blasi
Corrado Beguinot
Giulio Gino Rizzo
Giuliana Quattrone
Franco Montanari

Afternoon 3.00 p.m.
Theme 2 Methodology in project; the role of the interdisciplinarity aimed to find new strategies
Giandomenico Amendola
Fiamma Mignella
Maurizio Morandi
Giovanna Potestà
Bianca Petrella

December 1st : From research to implementation
Morning 9.00 a.m.
Theme 3 The relationship between the theoretical research and the teaching in University (Degree and Masters)
Gabriella Padovano,
Michael Trieb
Antonella Cortesi
Dimitra Babalis
Antonio Capestro

Afternoon 3.00 p.m.
Theme 4 The relationship between research, project and policies
Andrea Del Bono
Milan Prodanovic
Pierangiolo Cetica
Giancarlo Paba
Orcan Gunduz
Inci Uzun
Nezihat Koskluk

December 2nd : Outcomes
Morning 9.00 a.m.
Round table about the subjects tackled on 30th of November - 1st of December; collaboration of the International Centre for Studies in Urban Design and Fondazione Romualdo Del Bianco.
This meeting should also outline the main items for the next conference, to be held in spring 2006.

Every half-day two main papers will be presented (about 30-40 minutes) and some shorter papers (10-15 minutes) will define some subjects.
Then, a discussion will take place.

At the moment, the Centre is contacting the rapporteurs.