URBAN STUDIES, a postgraduate program at the University of Rijeka (Croatia), has announced an open call for its third generation of participants.

Each generation of Urban Studies participants engages with a specific urban condition, confronting the real needs of contemporary cities and spaces, as well as their desirable and possible futures within a defined context.

The next generation will explore the concept of the city-state through the relationships between city and port, city and territory, and the idea of the ideal city. Through this, the program seeks to contribute to shaping a more livable, just, human-centered, and even artistic, collage of cities, land, and sea.

About

URBAN STUDIES are postgraduate study program of spatial and strategic design of complex urban systems, phenomena and transformations enrolled in the artistic interdisciplinary field of Science and Art. Intended for everybody whose research or practice influences the built and programmed environment, strategic planning, infrastructural capacities, or collective imaginaries, URBAN STUDIES offer a comprehensive interdisciplinary education necessary for a meaningful contribution to the development of open, inclusive and resilient urban systems in the context of contemporary political, ecological and technological crises.

URBAN STUDIES are focused on hybridity, resilience, networks, adaptability, complexity, unpredictability and heritage in the states of crisis, with the aim of understanding and developing design-driven approaches to challenges of urban futures. While these focuses permeate all the educational contents of the study, theyare crucially exemplified through the practical tasks of research and methodological testing on the specificproblem through the thematic focus of the generation.