#RIGHT TO STUDY
The Research Unit of Theme 4 aims to deepen the concept of social well-being through a different declination of the relationship between the urban system and the university system. L’approccio adottato permette sia di identificare nuove ed emergenti categorie di bisogni sia di individuare le condizioni grazie alle quali intendere il diritto allo studio come un diritto sociale compiutamente inteso. In a nutshell, the right to education as social-empowerment and as a tool for the expansion of public space.
To give greater methodological rigor and establish a research methodology centered on the peculiarities of the Foggia context but suitably versatile in order to be applied also for the analysis of other regional university contexts, the main research questions include the right to study in the category of common goods. Consequently, in order for university cities to acquire services capable of transforming the university experience into a social-empowerment practice useful for all citizens, the Research Unit is committed to defining:
- urban regeneration interventions aimed at making the public spaces of culture more open and usable, or at designing urban spaces by imagining that the permanence of students is not for a fixed period but, vice versa, can be the beginning of new forms of coexistence and contamination intergenerational;
- urban policies shared with the university system, such as to create “communities of practices”. Cities and universities form new social capital because they are committed to developing new identities useful for potential forms of innovation and social well-being. In this perspective, students are not a category of city users but become protagonists of policies and new civic engagement processes.