In&Out: sperimentare l'osmosi tra città e università

Aiming to explore relationships and links between monofunctional university areas and the city that hosts them, the paper focuses on the unexpressed capacities of university facilities to be intended as new public spaces and new urban services, moving from the spatial dimension as a problem. Through an experimental project on the Campus in Bari, given many experiences showing the increasing proactive role of universities in the city, it investigates potentialities of offering universities an active role in urban dynamics while integrating the 'floating' population (students, workers and its related satellite activities) with the permanent one, through some sort of 'osmosis' between in&out: between city and university citadel. Significant nodal points are new types of public spaces as well as innovative governance forms required by such interventions in order to successfully integrate city and university.