ILS Innovative Learning Spaces “inside-out schools” is the 6th edition of the Scientific School organized by the Department of Civil-Environmental Engineering and Architecture of the University of Cagliari together with the Department of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning of the University of Sassari, the national network PRIN ProSE - Prototypes of Schools to be lived (IUAV, UNICA, Polimi, UNIVPM, Uni Campania, INDIRE), with the support of Regione Sardegna and Fondazione di Sardegna.

Starting from the experiences and inputs that emerged from the previous editions, it is clear that learning spaces act as relationship instigators on multiple scales and various contexts. The attempt to undermine the narrow perspective often associated with the school space, which is conventionally structured by the repetition of independent units and static environments, reverberates in strengthening relationships between different components; between the act of teaching and its space, between the building and its surroundings, between inside and outside, between formal and informal activities. In this spirit, learning spaces acquire a distinct urban connotation, and the above traditional categories are redesigned as new forms of articulation, appropriation and inhabitation of public space.

“Thinking of the school as a pluriverse, which includes multiple subsystems interacting with each other and multiple groups of subjects, who find themselves communicating to carry out the primary task for which the school exists as an institution, immediately means entering into a complex perspective .” (M.G. Riva, 2015)

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