TOWARDS AN URBAN ECOSYSTEM. Visions of a Sustainable City.

IED Rome launches "call for visions" to allocate scholarships for the "Master in Environmental Design" in collaboration with the National Institute of Architecture (IN/ARCH).

The "TOWARDS AN URBAN ECOSYSTEM" competition notice is online. "Visions of a Sustainable City" can be consulted internationally by students and young architects. It was created to give away two scholarships for the Master in Environmental Design.

The Master was created by IED Rome in collaboration with the National Institute of Architecture (IN/ARCH), which is recognized as being a Special Scientific Institute by the MIUR (Ministry of Education, University and Research). The objective is to train professional experts in the field of environmental design by providing them with the skills needed to imagine a different conscious and responsible type of habitat.

The competition invites young architects and graduates to reflect collectively on the issue of a new ecology for urban development by formulating visions, ideas or design proposals for the redevelopment of their own city. This is to be accomplished through three simple digital cards that can travel on a global level to tell the world how our cities could be different, more beautiful, more correct and more in balance with the rest of our living planet.

The Master trains designers to address the complexities of the contemporary city by promoting a "true ecology" of urban development through two different areas of specialization: Sustainable Urban Design and Landscape Design. These two areas of specialization share the same preparatory objective: preparing to acquire the necessary theoretical and practical skills that are connected to the concepts of sustainability, ecology, territory, ecological footprints, renewable energy, bioclimatic design and also for the sustainable management of mobility, water and agricultural proximity. Subsequently, the area of expertise offered by the Master in Sustainable Urban Design concentrates on the following specializations: designing renewable energy plants, analyzing the thermo-fluid dynamic of buildings and urban systems and developing a design method that is based on both architecture and energy simulation. And, the area of expertise offered by the Landscape Design course focuses on t
he following specializations: botany, geography, aesthetic and contemporary art, history and landscaping design.

Send IED Rome the three proposals by February 15, 2011, to participate in this competition.

The evaluation commission will be composed of Alberto Iacovoni (Director of IED Rome), Marialuisa Palumbo (Master Coordinator), Massimo Locci (Secretarial Coordinator of IN/ARCH) and of the professors in charge of the Master in Environmental Design: Mauro Annunziato (ENEA), Luca Galofaro (IaN+) and Lorenzo Romito (Stalker).

http://www.ied.edu/rome/blog/towards-an-urban-ecosystem-visions-for-a-sustainable-city/5886

http://digilander.libero.it/iedroma/urban_design_bando.pdf