Description
The high school is located in a suburban area of Ragusa which has about 15,000 residents and displays a situation of physical and social degradation. Within this urban context, about 2,000 students attend the schools in the area on daily basis, of which more than 900 are in high school. This creates a clear contrast between the deterioration of the neighbourhood and the fundamental function of the school in the path of student growth and learning.
The goal of the challenge is to promote through creative ideas a process of urban regeneration and social and cultural growth within the area in which the school is located. Solution providers will have to promote a series of specific interventions aimed to improve the school and neighbourhood habitat, involving in the process students,residents and teachers, as well as experts and cultural operators. We believe that taking care of the urban space, in fact, means anticipating the social degeneration that often accompanies the lack of common space. The task of the school is to focus the attention on the dynamics of marginalization, integration, social hardship of the neighbourhood and, at the same time, help create opportunities to promote the identification and development of shared solutions. If the starting point is the school, the recipient of the regeneration process is the entire community of the district, in a process where the school is open to the context of reference.