No. 18 (2025): The role of the university in fragile territories

Opening

Positioning in a world on fire. The role of the university between neutrality and partiality, through care and alliances

Francesca Cognetti, Alice Ranzini

7-22
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Dialogue

Reckless forays Conversation with Carlo Cellamare, Francesco Montillo, Serena Olcuire and Stefano Simoncini, LabSU – La Sapienza

Alice Ranzini, Stefano Pontiggia

24-38
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Backstage

Positionality in the University–Territory Relationship: Three Movements and a Hypothesis for Reflecting on and Engaging in Extension

Ana Fernandes

40-75
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Moving beyond binary thinking to engage in new forms of interaction with the diverse nature of territories: what forms of knowledge, planning and action?

Lidia Decandia

76-95
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The Systematization of Experiences: From Popular Education to Critical Extension Revealing an Interweaving

Humberto Tommasino, Eloísa Ibarzabal

96-127
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The Last Thing We Need Around Here is Another University Professor! Reflections on Transformational Community/University Partnerships

Kenneth Reardon

128-151
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Focus

Knowledge co-production, public engagement and social change in marginalised neighbourhoods: three Italian cases

Francesca Caterina Bragaglia, Stefano Simoncini , Stefano Pontiggia

153-175
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Participatory Action-Research facing the Contemporary Conjuncture. Lessons from Eastern Sicily

Laura Saija

176-198
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Unanchoring Anchor Institutions? The role of universities in collaborative adaptation processes

Antonio Raciti

199-219
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In the uncertain time of repair. Collaborative approaches to decolonial planning

Giovanni Attili

220-248
- PDF (Italiano)
‘Instituting’ Care in Fragile Territories: The Role of the University in Reimagining the Urban- Peripheral Institution of the Prison of Florence (Italy)

Camilla Perrone, Maddalena Rossi

249-268
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Observatory

Four universities and an urban living lab. Problematising community engagement in a public housing neighbourhood in Milan

Paolo Grassi, Alice Alessandri

270-291
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Strategies for territorialising research outreach from the University of the Republic in Montevideo, Uruguay

Adriana Goñi Mazzitelli, Patricia Iribarne, Miguel Olivetti

292-317
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Building competencies while supporting communities: the case of the Talca School of Architecture (Chile)

Felipe Miño

318-338
- PDF (Italiano)
Epistemic countercolonial possibilities in collaborations between grassroots and universities: a Favela da Maré study (Brazil)

Kauan Fonseca Lunardon, Lucia Capanema Alvares

339-354
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Fostering networks and research-based capacity to challenge exclusionary urban visions and influence urban policies in Freetown

Andrea Rigon

355-377
- PDF (Italiano)

Reviews

Universitas. Review of "Missione dell’università" by José Ortega y Gasset. Edited by Armando Savignano, Mimesis (2023)

Agostino Petrillo

379-383
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L’aula e la piazza. Dialogo sull’architettura, l’università e la società by Alessandro Armando e Carlo Olmo, Donzelli (2025)

Gabriele Pasqui

384-388
- PDF (Italiano)
Libera università by Tomaso Montanari, Einaudi (2025)

Rossella Ferro

389-394
- PDF (Italiano)

Strip

New Rules for A Generous School of Architecture by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes and Zosia Dzierżawska

Alice Ranzini

396-402
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Portfolio

Reporting on the transformations of the prison. The perspectives, times and spaces of Ri-Scatti

Marianna Frangipane, Gianfranco Orsenigo

404-421
- PDF (Italiano)

Full Issue

Opening

Positioning in a world on fire. The role of the university between neutrality and partiality, through care and alliances

Dialogue

Reckless forays Conversation with Carlo Cellamare, Francesco Montillo, Serena Olcuire and Stefano Simoncini, LabSU – La Sapienza

Backstage

Positionality in the University–Territory Relationship: Three Movements and a Hypothesis for Reflecting on and Engaging in Extension

Moving beyond binary thinking to engage in new forms of interaction with the diverse nature of territories: what forms of knowledge, planning and action?

The Systematization of Experiences: From Popular Education to Critical Extension Revealing an Interweaving

The Last Thing We Need Around Here is Another University Professor! Reflections on Transformational Community/University Partnerships

Focus

Knowledge co-production, public engagement and social change in marginalised neighbourhoods: three Italian cases

Participatory Action-Research facing the Contemporary Conjuncture. Lessons from Eastern Sicily

Unanchoring Anchor Institutions? The role of universities in collaborative adaptation processes

In the uncertain time of repair. Collaborative approaches to decolonial planning

‘Instituting’ Care in Fragile Territories: The Role of the University in Reimagining the Urban- Peripheral Institution of the Prison of Florence (Italy)

Observatory

Four universities and an urban living lab. Problematising community engagement in a public housing neighbourhood in Milan

Strategies for territorialising research outreach from the University of the Republic in Montevideo, Uruguay

Building competencies while supporting communities: the case of the Talca School of Architecture (Chile)

Epistemic countercolonial possibilities in collaborations between grassroots and universities: a Favela da Maré study (Brazil)

Fostering networks and research-based capacity to challenge exclusionary urban visions and influence urban policies in Freetown

Reviews

Universitas. Review of "Missione dell’università" by José Ortega y Gasset. Edited by Armando Savignano, Mimesis (2023)

L’aula e la piazza. Dialogo sull’architettura, l’università e la società by Alessandro Armando e Carlo Olmo, Donzelli (2025)

Libera università by Tomaso Montanari, Einaudi (2025)

Strip

New Rules for A Generous School of Architecture by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes and Zosia Dzierżawska

Portfolio

Reporting on the transformations of the prison. The perspectives, times and spaces of Ri-Scatti

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