Attractive and Liveable Public Spaces for Communities

The needs of students in relation to university open spaces are diverse and concern not only the learning activities that take place inside the buildings but also those of moving from one space of a lesson to another, breaks for relaxation or lunch places for socializing. Indeed, the well-being of a community is given by the livability, healthiness, accessibility, inclusiveness of the places it frequents and therefore, public spaces, especially open ones, if properly designed these can increase the quality of life of students, teachers, and the community of a university as a whole and, as many studies show, they can create the conditions for more profitable student learning. Likewise, each place is different from the other and the public space, in addition to representing its society, must also be attentive to urban identity. Starting from these premises, this study, carried out in the framework of the research project “LOVE Sapienza: Livable, enjOyable and attractiVE spaces for the communuty” - funded by Sapienza University of Rome with the author responsibility - aims to identify the main factors and elements that characterize best practices of public spaces in university campuses and propose a new methodology to analize and design these spaces, adapting the original Healthy Place Method.