Master in Polis-Making: Tools for Managing Sustainable Urban Transformation for Quality of Life

The Master in Polis-Making is a first-level programme that prepares professionals able to design, coordinate and manage processes of transformation of the city and the territory, holding together urban planning, social, economic and environmental dimensions. The term "polis" evokes the idea of the city as a community: the programme teaches how to reason about the quality of urban life, citizen participation and the building of shared public policies, with tools of analysis, assessment and design. The underlying idea is that urban transformations succeed better when they are built with those who live them. The master therefore offers tools to listen to communities, map needs, connect public and private parties and translate needs into projects that are sustainable from an economic, social and environmental point of view, with attention to the value of spaces and common goods.

Teaching is blended, with in-person and online lessons, and includes a laboratory of 120 hours of workshops, during which participants work on concrete cases applying the tools presented in the theoretical modules. The master lasts 13 months. The page does not state the credits, the detailed list of courses, the total hours of lessons or whether there is an internship. The language of delivery is not explicitly stated and it is reasonable to assume it is Italian. The laboratory of 120 hours of workshops is the applied part of the programme and is an opportunity to test the tools learned on a real case. Participants work in groups, compare different points of view and learn to present their proposals to public and private counterparts, developing mediation and communication skills that are much in demand in this field.

The aim is to train professionals able to work in public administrations, design firms, consulting firms, third-sector bodies and companies dealing with urban regeneration and sustainable development. The programme is suited to those who wish to acquire an interdisciplinary view of the city and a working method based on dialogue between different players. The page gives the application deadline as May 4, 2026 and the start date as May 15, 2026, both already passed: the next edition must therefore be checked. The price is not stated. This entry appears similar to another already in the list: the data should be compared during review. The format with in-person and online activity encourages the participation of those who work or live far from the venue, while keeping moments of direct engagement. The first-level master is aimed at graduates from different fields, from design to the social sciences, who wish to acquire an integrated and practice-oriented view of urban and territorial development policies and projects.