Politecnico Piacenza Campus: OC, a School in process

This text wants to be a preface at an experience of International Summer School, the OC Open City, that is realizing a real international network with the most important international Workshops in the world. The choice of Piacenza es case-study is real important in term of topics related to architectural design and construction of public spaces in contemporary city. In fact the presence in this city of a lot of areas experiencing radical changes over the next decades gives to the city the capability to become an important research laboratory to study and to apply operational innovative models related to the sustainable development.