The Institute of Urbanism (stdb) is responsible for training students in all areas of urban development and spatial planning, at the Bachelor’s, Master’s, and doctoral levels.
The institute promotes an urbanism that gives priority to what has been neglected by the urbanism of the Anthropocene: the territory is no longer speculated upon, but inhabited. The systems that support our (human) lives are organised and spatialised in such a way as to leave space for (non-human) nature. The institute is creating a body of thought that is based neither on a high-tech future nor on a regressive return to the 50s. The method, research, and design taught at the institute propose a better, healthier environment designed within the planet’s boundaries: territorial urbanism.
The institute's main themes are: territory, transition, land use frugality, building re-use, building obsolescence, ecological innovation, space for water, social inequalities, and active mobility.