- Shared and learnt lessons from Lisbon: Designing the city and the territory from an Urbanistic viewpoint   253 kb by    Morgado, Sofia | smorgado@fa.utl.pt    Short Outline The article addresses a systematised outlook from previous experiences in teaching programmes, research, active integration with theory and practice. The roles of Education, Research and Practice will be explored. Abstract Unexpectedly enough, spatial planning does not merely stand for expanding the urban onto a passive landscape anymore. Did it ever? Or was humanity deterministically daydreaming of it, while reality was taking over the actual urbanization process?Although functional changes start emerging since the 70’s, the last decade has proven that changes are progressively faster and call for innovative approaches, that is to say, by recouping the design from the fabrics of the terræ themselves; i.e. a look onto a synaptic and conjunctive fabric that forms the basis of the current City. In an attempt to go beyond the frontiers of Planning, the approach seeks to explore the condition of these days’ cities – seen as a paradoxical state of in betweenness both in the territories of practice and the ones of knowledge.These concerns have raised the need to clarify realities holding different qualities - from urban and infrastructural, from rural to what is understood as natural - and the vital skills to intervene onto them. At the same time, societal dynamics, economic trend, job and production relocation have opened - if not enforced - questions which are often very different depending on the geographic area of the globe.The article will address a systematised outlook from previous experiences in (1) urban design and planning studios within the general layout of teaching programmes, (2) frontier and applied research as ways of reasoning reality and look for alternative answers and (3) integration of education activities with present-day topics both in theory and practice. It seeks to explore:I. Contextual approaches from a cultural perspective – grounds and backgrounds• Urbanism and Urbanization;• Urbanism as a specific cultural approach to designing the city and the territory;• Cultures and styles of planning in Europe.II. The field of urban design and planning education – oriented didactics and learning strategies:• The 3 Cycles of the Bologna Treaty and the innovative approach of the Faculty of Architecture (main fields: Architecture, Urbanism and Design);• Urban Design and Planning Programmes in Europe – two faces of the same coin• The Faculty of Architecture, [Technical] University of Lisbon as a leading example in Urban Design and Planning Education – current programmes M. Arch with specialization in Urbanism [Bachelor + Master, 5 years Bologna model] and the Doctoral Program in Urbanism.III. Education, Research and Practice - contributing to inter-related activities in a cross-border, trans- disciplinary approach; recent experiences:• 2009/13, Metropolitan Territories, Course at the Doctoral Program in Urbanism, FAUTL, Lisbon.• 2013, From splinters to parks, 2nd [Urban + Landscape] design international workshop, Lisbon, 7-10 May 2013, Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon, endorsed by the ISOCARP.• 2012, Ambivalent landscapes, Conference, Lisbon, 7-10 May 2013, Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon, including the support and meeting of AESOP’s TG Public Spaces-Public Cultures.[These and other experiences available at: http://metropolis.fa.utl.pt/metropolis.htm] Keywords Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2013: Frontiers of Planning - Evolving and declining models of city planning practice   Click to open the full paper as pdf document   Click to send an email to the author(s) of this paper