Appraisal Research and Creative Education: Laboratory Experiments

Appraisal is a discipline that over the last 30 years has been a major expansion, both in quality and in quantity, following the globalization and fmancialisation of economics, the technological development and the new operational fields that require those skills. Despite such a broadening of horizons, the teaching methods are strongly characterized by classroom lectures; it is necessary to work towards an increase in the quality of the teaching models, opening up to innovative processes and creative education. The most innovative aspect of the appraisal discipline deals with the involvement of citizens in a process that makes it possible for them to express, in a shared way, values concerning inclusive urban goods. In order to develop appraisal technologies that are suited for assessing these values the experimental laboratory can be considered a creative way to combine research and teaching. The paper presents a synthesis and a partial result of a path which allows both to combine: a) research into new appraisal criteria and the control of the experimental procedures proposed for the appraisal of these goods; b) the use of innovative teaching and research methods in appraisal discipline aimed at educating to civilization