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Desde su constitución en diciembre de 2019, la Oficina de Aprendizaje-Servicio (ApS) de la UPM se ha dedicado a promover y difundir la metodología ApS en el ámbito de las enseñanzas de nuestra universidad. Nuestra misión es trabajar en colaboración con entidades externas a la UPM para abordar las demandas y necesidades sociales, utilizando los conocimientos de nuestros estudiantes y profesores para contribuir a la construcción de una sociedad más justa y equitativa. En línea con los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) y la Agenda 2030, se han impulsado convocatorias de proyectos de impacto social, colaborando estrechamente con otras oficinas con objetivos similares en diferentes universidades. Se han establecido numerosas colaboraciones con Ayuntamientos, Asociaciones, ONG, Fundaciones y centros de enseñanza, enfocadas en mejorar entornos desfavorecidos y apoyar a colectivos vulnerables en nuestro entorno. La positiva acogida de estas iniciativas ha generado un creciente interés por parte de nuestros docentes y estudiantes, reflejado en la participación en las actividades organizadas por la oficina. En cuanto a la difusión, el año pasado publicamos la primera edición del ebook "Experiencias de Aprendizaje-Servicio Universitario". En esta segunda edición, hemos recopilado algunas de las experiencias más destacadas realizadas durante 2023 por el profesorado y los estudiantes de nuestra universidad en el ámbito del AprendizajeServicio. Nuestra intención es continuar ampliando estas publicaciones con futuras ediciones, dando visibilidad a las iniciativas meritorias que se llevan a cabo en nuestra comunidad universitaria. Agradecemos sinceramente a todos los profesores que han contribuido a esta segunda edición con sus experiencias y esperamos que sirva como inspiración y guía para futuros proyectos de Aprendizaje-Servicio en nuestra universidad. ¡Gracias por su compromiso y dedicación!.

La sociedad se encuentra en una época de grandes desafíos, y la educación universitaria desempeña un papel fundamental en abordarlos de manera efectiva. En particular, recientes estudios a nivel internacional evidencian cuatro tipos de retos. En primer lugar, la pandemia de COVID-19 ha acelerado la digitalización en la educación superior, lo que ha llevado a un mayor énfasis en la enseñanza en línea y la adopción de tecnologías educativas avanzadas. Las universidades han tenido que adaptarse rápidamente a esta nueva realidad, lo que destaca la necesidad de una mayor flexibilidad en los métodos de enseñanza y aprendizaje para garantizar la continuidad educativa en situaciones de crisis.

Producción Científica, This work addresses the relationship between the Italian city-making process following Unification (1861) and the development of military settlements up to the 1920s. The hypothesis presented here is that the building of military settlements and the redevelopment of spaces with new functions, arguably, shaped Italian cities over this period by implementing urban renewal processes and city expansion. Through my analysis, I claim that defence planning had an amenable effect upon the decision-making process of urban planning schemes. In addition, this paper claims that this process has impacted the location of military settlements in ways that boosted the economic and urban images of the city. I do this through a detailed case study of Milan’s parade ground. Here, I found that the parade ground dismantling and relocation from the urban centre towards the periphery happened twice, relied on a specific narrative, and was catalysed by two mega-events. I demonstrate that defence planning plays a secondary role in boosting these operations aimed both at replacing military settlements with newly emerging functions and displacing the unwanted functions in the periphery.

Producción Científica, This review article focuses on two key developments in urban history. The first is that the new transnational approach to urban history is significantly advancing the field and the second is that within the European context an important new emphasis is being placed on Eastern and Southern Europe. As claimed by Claus Møller Jørgensen in his review of nineteenth-century transnational urban history: transnational urban history entails a measure of comparative work to find commonalities as hints of connections . . . The enlargement of scale and the search for connections does add new perspectives to urban history and produces new knowledge . . . Focusing on cities as the location of transnational processes of modernity brings urban place more centrally into discussions of national space and national histories.

Producción Científica, La investigación contextualiza las políticas de enajenación de los bienes inmuebles afecta-dos al Ministerio de Defensa español y argumenta las oportunidades e inercias para llevar a cabo una efectiva reutilización de dichos bienes. El trabajo, pone énfasis en los resultados de los procesos de enajenación que paulatinamente se han ido produciendo en el país y que, de algún modo, pueden ser reproducibles en otros contextos internacionales a través de la correspondiente legislación e interés inmobiliario del organismo. Partiendo del contexto legal español se analizan dos casos de estudios, sobre los que abordar y caracterizar las principales características de los procesos de reutilización, demostrando un enfoque prevalentemente especulativo por parte del Ministerio de Defensa a la hora de plantear las operaciones de enajenación de estos bienes., The research deals with the disposal policies of the Spanish Ministry of Defence’s real estate assets and detects the opportunities and inertia to carry out effective reuses of these assets. This work highlights the results of the disposal processes in the country that somehow can be found in other international contexts through the corresponding legislation and the MoD (Ministry of Defence) real estate interests. Based on the national legal context, the analysis of two case studies, their approach, and main characteristics of the reuse processes demonstrates a predominantly speculative approach by the Ministry of Defence., Hecho en el marco del proyecto “La Regeneración Urbana como una nueva versión de los Programas de Renovación Urbana. Logros y fracasos, cofinanciado por el Ministerio de Universidades en el marco del Plan de recuperación, transformación y resiliencia, por la Unión Europea – NextGenerationEU y por la Universidad de Valladolid

Producción Científica, Il saggio analizza lo stato di attuazione del progetto a rete ‘Fari, torri ed edifici costieri’ (promosso dal 2015 da Agenzia del demanio e Difesa servizi S.p.a.) volto alla riqualificazione e valorizzazione di tali beni di proprietà pubblica. Il lavoro presenta un inventario qualitativo e quantitativo degli immobili ricompresi nei bandi d’asta pubblica relativi a questo progetto, evidenziandone le caratteristiche principali, gli attori coinvolti ed i dati sui processi di riconversione in corso. Il contributo mette in evidenza punti di forza e di debolezza di questa iniziativa che vede i risultati dei bandi di gara relativamente modesti in termini di operazioni effettivamente concluse e cerca di indagare inerzie e prolungamenti dello stato di abbandono.

Producción Científica, Crises and urgencies are not new phenomena, as well as phases of expansion and contraction (or shrinkage). These dynamics are the essential base on which ground the Author of this paper reflected. His focus is specifically on the scientific and technological backgrounds of two quite different fields: petro-chemical geophysics and information technology, and their respective and opposite roles in “shrinking” or “expanding” the perceived and actual size, scale, and grain of the developed landscape. By putting together these two fields, planners can have the sufficient background to anticipate future land patterns that respond to the relocating effects of scarce, expensive, and renewable transportation and shipping fuels on the one hand, and the continued globalization of culture and corporate ownership on the other. This reflection, as highlighted in this special issue of CONTESTI, is pivotal in a context of a changing “new normal” of the 21st-century society. We must accept that the everyday life of people all over the world can be affected by unexpected disruptions, waves of crisis and recovery that may continuously create new equilibriums. Also, the world is, in some aspects, shrinking, but in other cases is expanding. How can we face such a situation? What can we expect as a result in terms of (re)configuration of cities and territories? In which world we would live in the (near) future?

Producción Científica, The European Week of Regions and Cities is an annual four-day event during which cities and regions showcase their capacity to create growth and jobs, implement European Union cohesion policy, and prove the importance of the local and regional level for good European governance. This session presents the results of the disposal policies of military land in Europe since the 1980s. It shows the consequences of the tendency to privatize public land on the basis of neoliberal approaches to public policy and urban governance that privilege markets, empower self-interested economic actors, and reduce the public good to an aggregation of private interests. The aim is to identify factors in this transition from military to civilian that impede cross-border cooperation in favour of learning from countries whose disposal policies result in more local community-centered and sustainable land uses.

Producción Científica, It is not our intention here to resuscitate ‘wasteland’ and ‘shrinking’ as epistemological categories but to underline a volume that goes beyond finding new uses for wasteland derived from shrinkage. The contribution chosen for review is one of the last and updated contributions about shrinkage and the management of wasteland which main goal has been the provision of examples based on multi- and trans-disciplinary research and practices for a more sustainable future for shrinking territories. The volume is, in turn, the result of the outcomes of the European-driven program “Reviving shrinking cities – innovative paths and perspectives toward livability for shrinking cities in Europe” and this element add relevance to the field as it is the collective effort of a wider training program for Ph.D. students that hopefully can develop even more their compelling findings. The decision to make a reflection on this volume arises from the fact that this meaty 450-page manuscript was organized around research areas and case studies that suddenly had to confront an unexpected and destabilizing factor: the 2020 pandemic. The impact of Covid-19 on urban trajectories has been so significant that it has generated new dynamics worldwide, especially in shrinking realities. For this reason, the contents of “Handbook on Shrinking cities” can serve as a guide for investigating and rethinking ways to intervene in shrinking central, suburban, and rural areas., Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (PID2019-108120RB-C33), Ministerio de Universidades dentro del Plan para la Recuperación Europea - NextGenerationEU y por la Universidad de Valladolid.

Producción Científica, Shrinkage processes are multidimensional phenomena affecting city sectors or regions that are experiencing a decline in their economic and social foundations and struggle in finding sound postindustrial revitalisation strategies. The symptoms of such structural crisis are population loss and ageing, economic recession, employment decline and social problems. The repeated international crises that followed the global economic, productive and cultural changes since the 1980s have resulted in the formation of neglected, underused and decay urban voids. The current abandonment scenario and related transformation opportunities are extremely complex and include a wide variety of typologically different wastelands. They comprise shrinking urban and peripheral fabrics, specific empty or obsolete infrastructure, derelict sites, and voids of with heritage value no longer animated by the socio-cultural “regime” that originated them. Wastelands are not unusual in Western society but their pervasiveness is certainly unprecedented given the general socioeconomic crises and dynamics. Abandonment is a challenging and constant process of space production to be filled with new functions by civil society. The re-cycle is even more challenging because the disposal of significant assets has occurred within a limited time frame compared to the post-industrial wastelands. Wastelands constitute a resource with relevant strategic opportunities for addressing a variety of issues – i.e., reducing land consumption, providing urban maintenance and rehabilitation, and increasing the supply of public open spaces, environmental quality characteristics, community standards and services. Last but not least, wastelands may provide new habitable and accessible spaces in contrast to various types of emergencies or polycrises the society is facing – i.e. climate, pandemics, territorial imbalances, ecological and energy resources impoverishment – thus addressing the transition scenario., Ministerio de Universidades dentro del Plan para la Recuperación Europea - NextGenerationEU y por la Universidad de Valladolid., Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (PID2019-108120RB-C33)

The basic idea underlying this research is that urban planning is one of the main causes of environmental degradation. Despite its relevance in impacting ecosystems, the current methodological assessments across Europe still fail to include spatial planning as a relevant factor. This paper aims to formulate an innovative methodology for the evaluation of ecosystems for protecting land at risk of degradation. This methodology is exemplified by the case of Spanish spatial planning applied in the Community of Madrid, being also capable to be employed in other European State Members after a cartographic adaptation. The proposed methodology specifically implements a European approach to the scale of regional and local spatial planning based on the “Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services” (MAES) project. Among the main results, four outcomes stand out. The first is the novelty to provide a methodology capable of dealing with natural values at regional and municipal levels based on a spatial-planning-based scale (1:20,000). The second result regards the incorporation of new attributes tied to existing ecosystems during the drafting of spatial plans, thus improving the quality of the information to make better decisions in terms of environmental protection. The third result is the more accurate environment assessment due to the inclusion of a new element of direct pressure on ecosystems, while the fourth outcome is that the proposed methodology detects the impacts of the drivers of change in the Community of Madrid. Although the cartographic information is defined at the regional scale, the results obtained can be linked to the municipal planning scale. The proposed methodology can be a much more useful tool for regional spatial planning for three main reasons: it works at the same scale as regional planning (1:20,000), it incorporates the environmental information necessary for the correct identification of natural values and impacts at the municipal level, La principal idea que subyace en esta investigación es que la panificación urbana es una de las principales causas de la degradación medioambiental. Sin embargo, pese a la importancia de su impacto en el medio natural y en los ecosistemas, las evaluaciones metodológicas actuales en toda Europa siguen sin incluir la ordenación del territorio como un factor relevante. Por ello, el documento pretende formular una metodología innovadora de evaluación de los ecosistemas para la protección del territorio en riesgo de degradación. Esta metodología se ejemplifica con el caso de la planificación territorial española aplicada en el caso concreto de la Comunidad de Madrid, siendo también susceptible de ser empleada en otros Estados Miembros europeos tras una adaptación cartográfica. En concreto, la metodología propuesta implementa un enfoque europeo a escala de planificación territorial regional y local basado en el proyecto “Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services” (MAES). Entre los principales resultados ligados a esta propuesta, cabe destacar cuatro resultados. El primero es la novedad en el tratamiento de los valores naturales a escala regional y municipal a partir de una escala basada en la planificación urbana y territorial (1:20.000). Como segunda cuestión destaca la incorporación de nuevos atributos ligados a los ecosistemas existentes en la elaboración de los planes de ordenación del territorio, mejorando así la calidad de la información para tomar mejores decisiones en materia de protección del medio ambiente por el planificador. El tercer resultado es una evaluación más precisa del medio ambiente debido a la inclusión del concepto de presión directa sobre los ecosistemas, mientras que la cuarta consecuencia sería que la metodología propuesta detecta los impactos de los motores del cambio en la Comunidad de Madrid. Además, aunque la información cartográfica viene definida a escala regional, los resultados obtenidos pueden vincularse a la escala de pla

Publicación de los trabajos elaborados por los estudiantes del curso 2022/23 de la asignatura Ciudad y Urbanismo (35001304) de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid en el marco de un proyecto de Aprendizaje-Servicio y reflexiones sobre el proceso tanto de los agentes sociales que formaron parte del mismo, como de los profesores que ha participado en la docencia.