Scenarios for active learning in smart territories

This work is intended to foster a “quantum leap” in the reflection on learning in smart cities/territories. We try to move from a vision according to which education is identified with “infrastructures and services” needed to sustain the smart city “organism” (due also to the social capital that it may produce) toward a “new” vision that recovers the founding role of the educative processes, through which the relationships between persons and inhabited territories are continuously reshaped. According to that we present: a) a strategic and methodological approach focused on museal field and narrative as key elements of future "learning from smart cities"; b) a model of an advanced integrated technological environment (mobile, web, internet of things) designed to support such an approach. The need for a different approach to the monitoring of complex learning experiences is also underlined

NEW DESIGNS OF YACHT HARBOURS IN ITALY

This paper follows a similar one presented at the VII COPEDEC in Dubai (Noli et al. 2008) with the description of some recent marina projects actually constructed along the Italian coasts. Now attention is devoted to other 8 interesting projects where particular engineering problems have been solved with creativity and scientific rigor by comparing different solutions, even if the small project size, often with private funding and minor economic return, does not allow to spend too much either in the actual works and in the extensive use of sophisticated investigations and advanced design methods