Clusone, 10-13 June 2021

Scientific committee: Fulvio Adobati, Elena Bougleux, Federica Burini, Emanuela Casti, Alessandra Ghisalberti, Renato Ferlinghetti, Filippo Menga, Michel Lussault, Paola Pellegrini

Universities involved: Università degli studi di Bergamo, Université Lumière Lyon2, Xi’an Jiao Tong Liverpool University 

Tutors: Sara Belotti, Elisa Consolandi, Marta Rodeschini

Context: The Summer School is a complementary educational activity to the training courses of the two master's degrees involved, carried out in the territory of Seriana Valley, to allow students to deepen issues related to territorial planning and tourism in this mountain context with great historical and environmental complexity. It provides insights into territorial and tourist regeneration in times of crisis through theoretical and applied activities - divided into seminars, group work, exercises - held by teaching staff from European universities (Lyon and Bergamo) and Chinese (Suzhou, located in the Delta of the Blue River, near Shanghai).

Objective: The Summer School offers students an in-depth study of the challenges posed by globalization on urban planning and sustainable tourism in times of "syndemia" that is of crisis, both environmental and pandemic, which requires a radical rethinking of our model of life and of living territories. Some authors derive this crisis from the same contemporary context that of the Anthropocene, i.e. the entry into an Era in which the balance and the very survival of the Planet are threatened by reckless human action and depend on the ability of communities to pursue a relationship more balanced with nature. In short, the Anthropocene redefines the relationship between human and nature and calls into play the theories of complexity that well explain the dissipative dynamics underlying environmental crises. By comparing antithetical and distant territories, such as Chinese and European ones, the School intends to envisage urban planning and tourism as synergistic phenomena of globalization that can trace balanced forms of living the Earth exclusively in local territories in a perspective of transcalarity with the entire planet. Consequently, the Summer School explores the network of territories and the dynamism imparted by globalization both on urban systems and on the elective ones of tourism that can be incorporated into the dynamics of contemporary mobile living. These are fields of study approached from an interdisciplinary and international perspective, which presents examples relating to the design of Asian and European territories but at the same time is confronted with emblematic realities such as that of Seriana Valley.