🌍 Social Design Summer School – Reimagining Urban Futures

What makes a city truly thrive? Is it the buildings, streets, and infrastructure—or the stories, relationships, traditions, and shared experiences that bring those spaces to life?

This interdisciplinary Summer School invites participants to explore the many layers of urban life through the lens of social design, artistic inquiry, and collaborative research. Bringing together students, practitioners, researchers, and creative thinkers from diverse fields, the program encourages a deeper understanding of how cities function as living ecosystems shaped by both tangible and intangible resources.

Through field-based exploration, discussion, observation, and experimentation, participants will investigate how everyday practices, community knowledge, cultural memory, environmental systems, and social interactions contribute to the character and resilience of urban spaces.

Program Highlights

🏙️ Explore cities beyond their physical form
🔍 Investigate the social, cultural, and environmental dimensions of urban life
🤝 Collaborate within interdisciplinary teams and learning communities
🌱 Examine sustainable and circular approaches to urban development
🎨 Engage with creative, research-driven, and design-led methodologies

A Collaborative Learning Experience

Guided by international faculty, designers, artists, and researchers, participants will develop innovative ways of observing, interpreting, and responding to the complexities of contemporary cities. The program encourages critical thinking, experimentation, and the co-creation of ideas that can contribute to more inclusive, sustainable, and responsive urban futures.

Who Should Attend?

This Summer School welcomes individuals from design, architecture, visual arts, social sciences, environmental studies, planning, technology, public policy, and related disciplines who are interested in exploring new perspectives on cities and urban transformation.

Why Join?

✨ Learn from leading practitioners in social design and urban innovation
✨ Gain hands-on experience through collaborative projects and site-based research
✨ Connect with an international network of students and professionals
✨ Explore innovative approaches to understanding and shaping urban environments
✨ Contribute to meaningful conversations about the future of cities

Join a unique educational experience where creativity, research, and collaboration come together to uncover new possibilities for the cities of tomorrow.