2015 - 2018
KAAU – Knowledge Alliance for Advanced Urbanism
KAAU group works for the sensitive integration of ICT in cities, taking in consideration cultural heritage, and environmental and social dimension issues. This project aims to promote an innovative understanding of “Advanced Urbanism” that requires changing traditional design and urban planning practices towards more open, collaborative, and interdisciplinary practices.
The increasing availability of data creates new opportunities not only for monitoring and management but will also radically change the way we describe, understand, and design cities, challenging many fundamental assumptions of city design and planning professions. For this reason, our Consortium wants to build a Knowledge Alliance for Advanced Urbanism: to promote the innovative education and training that emerging technologies require.
Year:
- 2015-2018
Funding Call:
- Erasmus +
Total Funding:
- 958,914 €
Team:
- Chiara Farinea, Mathilde Marengo, Areti Markopoulou, Luis Falcon, Federica Ciccone, Marco Ingrassia
Partners:
- Santa & Cole NeoSeries, S.L. (ES), Darts Engineering SRL (IT), MCRIT, S.L (ES), Useful Simple Projects Limited (UK), Intelligent Atlas SL (ES), Champ Libre (FR), Urban Next Europe SL (ES), École Nationale Superieure Architecture de Montpellier (FR), Universitá Degli Studi di Genova (IT), Technilum (FR)
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme under grant agreement No. 2015 – 2928 / 001 – 001.
European cities are becoming living laboratories where industries carry on pilot projects to experiment with new devices, all kinds of sensors, and online information and communication systems. The involvement of universities and research centers in this process is still limited.
IAAC coordinates the Knowledge Alliance for Advanced Urbanism (KAAU), whose aim is to develop an educational and training platform, in partnership with HEIs and well-established industrial partners and companies. The objective of this platform is to offer participants the possibility to engage in a semi-professional environment, developing projects with the support and expertise of institutions that are commercially involved in their field of expertise. In this manner, it provides a potential jumping platform into future professional opportunities, while offering companies a fresh R+D environment were to propose new design challenges and applications.