Teaching Workshop: Theory and Practices for an Interdisciplinary Laboratory On Sustainability.

The laboratory aims to involve students in the reflection on the interdisciplinarity and transversality of sustainability, starting from the basic definitions up to the Sustainable Development Goals (Agenda2030). Although sustainability is an increasingly popular concept, its characteristics and declinations are often unknown, due to sectoral knowledge and / or opportunistic appropriation. On the one hand, we intend to bring out the knowledge and skills already developed on the subject, placing them in a coherent framework; on the other, the goal is to provide key content and to develop students' ability and critical spirit. The focus of 2019 is on the local food system, a particularly useful context for analyzing sustainability and related policies, investigating the relationship between global and local issues.

At the end of the laboratory the student must:
· know the basics of the theory of sustainability, the most important cultural references and the relevant policies at local level to best respond to the paradigm;
· be able to interpret news concerning the climate, environment and relationship with human societies with a critical spirit;
· having developed curiosity and interest in local territorial experiences aimed at sustainability, in particular that concerning the local food system (access to food and drinking water, short supply chains, food waste, ecological footprint, etc.).