Blended Intensive Program (BIP)
Architecture(s) of Care 3: Occupy, Poetically
International Summer School – Pietra de’ Giorgi, Italy
15th - 19th of June 2026

Join us for a one-week residency in the hilltop village of Pietra de’ Giorgi, in the rural landscape of the Oltrepò Pavese, Northern Italy. Architecture(s) of Care 3: Occupy, Poetically invites students and early researchers to explore architecture as a collective, situated and experimental practice. Rather than learning about a place, participants will learn by inhabiting it. For one week, we will live and work together in the village, engaging with its spaces, rhythms and community while contributing to an ongoing project of cultural reactivation centred on the reopening of the village’s historic cinema as a social theatre. The programme combines critical mapping exercises, spatial observation and conversations with local actors with a hands-on construction workshop, where participants will collaboratively design and build small architectural elements for the public spaces around the cinema. Walking, mapping, building and sharing everyday life become part of a collective ritual of learning and making, where design is understood not as a finished object but as a process of care, negotiation and radical imagination. Participants will stay together in the village in a temporary residency setting, with accommodation and daily lunch provided throughout the programme. If you are interested in experimental pedagogies, rural futures and architecture as a form of social engagement, this summer school offers a unique opportunity to think, build and inhabit together.