Smart[er] Learning | Bergamo: The University CityCristina Grasseni

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Cristina GrasseniUniversity of Bergamo

SMART[ER] LEARNING | BERGAMO: THE UNIVERSITY CITY

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Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Bergamo University

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How should we rethink and redesign the role of the University in Bergamo?

- More participative - More democratic- More dynamic - More functional

- Developing a more effective integration between academia, institutions, industries and citizens

How we would like our uni to be?

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GoalPERMETTERE AFFORDANCE

Designing a learning space that affords participatory practices. Namely: it allows and invites them to emerge through appropriate spaces and technologies.

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affordance:J.J. Gibson, psychology of PerceptionTim Ingold: anthropology ofthe environment

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The social relevance of the University

high-tech solutions is not only an educational low-tech solutions point. It has socialno-tech strategies relevance

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Learning environments

- More than one type of learning environment

- Spatial and Relational- Social and Virtual

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How should we rethink and redesign the role of the University in Bergamo?

- Time: Duration/Seasonality/Times of the day/Weekday/Weekend time and times of studying: duration of

learinig/ academic calendar/overcrowded in some moment/it should be considered religious, family and work time

- Space: public, private, “third”, common, institutional; access, visibility, viability facilitating socialization and interaction

- Practices: public, private, group, individual, institutional, visible/invisible practices of learning Practices and spaces are intimately

interconnected- Contents: heritage, sustainability, citizenship, access to

information in general the capacity to increase axess

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How should we rethink and redesign the role of the University in Bergamo?

- Collective action is not just given by the sum of individuals

- Seeing relevant information is often not enough to trigger responsible action

- The issue of Surveillance

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Wi-Fi? Yes please, better if open access and no data plan neededImage source: MIT SenseABLE City Lab

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Bergamo as University city for a smart[er]learning.

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Stakeholders

1) Education Office (Ufficio Scolastico Provinciale)2) GAMeC 3) TAG – Talent Garden Bergamo4) Bergamo University Housing Office 5) Sustainable Citizenship (Cittadinanza Sostenibile/ Mercato &

Cittadinanza)6) Bgreport7) Bergamo Sviluppo / Chamber of Commerce 8) Lab809) Nuovo Albergo Popolare/ Opera Pia Bonomelli: Christian NGO

focussing on social education & rehabilitation10) Housing office / Times of the city – Bergamo municipality