Tecnologia e umanesimo. L’impegno per formazione e cooperazione attraverso l’esperienza della Scuola di specializzazione in Tecnologia, architettura e città nei Paesi in via di sviluppo

The chapter reconstructs the intellectual and institutional trajectory of the School of Specialisation in Technology, Architecture, and the City in Developing Countries, founded in 1989. Its origins are situated within the international debates on decolonisation, development, appropriate technologies, informal settlements, self-help construction, ecological awareness and cooperation that marked the postwar decades. Central to this experience was Giorgio Ceragioli, whose academic work in architectural technology was inseparable from a broader civic and humanistic commitment to housing, poverty, and global inequalities. The School developed a distinctive approach that combined research, teaching, technical experimentation, and international cooperation in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Through low-cost building components, hybridised technologies, manuals for non-specialist builders, and the Latec self-building laboratory, it promoted a learning-by-doing pedagogy grounded in social responsibility. The School produced durable professional networks, scientific trajectories, and an ethical model of technological knowledge as public service.