Open Cities Lab Posts
The Borromini Institute, in collaboration with ArtFiles and Tools for Culture, will be hosting its first Sustainable Public Space Workshop on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. The workshop will be attended by students and faculty from the California Polytechnic Rome Program in Architecture, the University of Idaho’s Rome Program in Architecture, and other guests. Students will […]
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Our students love to get involved in environmental projects in their adopted city, Rome. Whether this be helping fight climate change through conscientious shopping and recycling, joining in with Retake Rome to clean up public areas, or participating in internships supporting urban agricultural or welcoming immigrants, there are always ways for the study abroad student
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Our customized program for the University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering brought 22 students and their professor Ernest-John (EJ) Ignacio to Rome for a week of intensive learning. Highlights of the program were many:
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32 students from two universities headed out by train from Rome’s Porta San Paolo and spent the morning exploring the back streets and monuments of Rome’s ancient port. Preserved in mud the way Pompeii was preserved in lava, but bearing witness to many more centuries of ancient history, Ostia provides a comprehensive look at Roman
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Today on a gorgeous Sunday both the @hwsabroad @hwscolleges and the @illinoisabroad students took to the ancient Appian Way on bikes! But not after a look and tasting at the Campagna Amica farmer’s market. Joined by @luluinitalia and many though not all of the students we learned about how agriculture, ancient archaeology and modern day
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