#HOUSING
#EXPERIMENTAL AND INNOVATIVE SERVICES
AGREEMENT REGION PUGLIA – ADISU PUGLIA
Proposing party: REGIONE PUGLIA
Partner: Adisu Puglia, Municipality of Lecce; South East Association
Location: “DE GIORGI” UNIVERSITY RESIDENCE
In implementation of the provisions of the Regional Council for the improvement of the quality of spaces for socialization in university residences, and in synergy with the reflections underway within the program Puglia University Region, Adisu Puglia with the Region and the municipality of Lecce, organized “Off-site – Design Workshop for the temporary housing of university citizens”, which was held on 28/29/30 September 2021, to imagine new spaces and new uses for the “De Giorgi” University Residence in Lecce, together with the community of students who live there and the citizens of the neighboring neighborhood, listening to their dreams.
The protagonists of the initiative were the students and the local area who, through the tools of participatory planning, were involved in a laboratory coordinated by the Knos Manufactures preparatory to the design of the extension of the residence.
It started with the presentation of a series of case studies to investigate issues ranging from the design of flexible architectures for temporary use to the new sustainable construction methods, to then move on to the design phase with university students, newly graduated designers, the community of Third Place and the inhabitants of Lecce. The final return of the workshop results is reported in the Report “An experimental university residence for a new biopolitical community” which outlines the guidelines for the design of the extension of the university residence to imagine future scenarios together.