Today, technology is providing the tools to remedy the contradiction in the industrial world, as long as you want, because technology alone can neither liberate neither enslaving; it must be understood, guided, used towards the goals that interest us.

          Giorgio Ceragioli, “L’uomo e la città”, Progetto, n. 3, 1982

In the sixties prof. Giorgio Ceragioli, started to promote initiatives, research and collaborations in the field of Architecture and Cooperation. Between 1969 and 1972, he launched the free courses on the topics of building industrialization in extreme conditions and social housing in developing Countries.
In 1988, under his leadership, has started the School of Specialization in “technology, architecture and cities in developing countries”, which has been a point of maturity and exchange at the international level. Since 1996, the direction of the school was entrusted to prof. Massimo Foti, then the prof. Nuccia Maritano Comoglio.
From 2003 to 2014, the school has given way to the Course in “Habitat, technology and development” (HTD).
During the years many others people cooperated with the team, the common thread in time has been a constant attention to the issues of habitat and development in research, teaching, testing in the lab, looking for a convergence between the ideal choices and  the operational field.