Favouring a Learn-by-Doing approach, ID-EA is a project, led by lecturer Valeria Gozzi, that sought to activate the acquisition of knowledge on several levels, while relying on a common communicative ground between engineers and architects.
 
The main objective was to give students the opportunity to practically realise an object, working in multidisciplinary teams.
 
Through the very act of construction, each participant was able to offer his or her own expertise and point of view, while at the same time receiving insights and ideas that thus enabled mutual enrichment.
 
The summer school involved the design and realisation of objects with a specific function and characterised by the synthesis of architectural concept and structure (e.g. geodesic domes, tensegrity, structures working by form). The students, organised in groups, experienced real project dynamics, not only related to concept, but also to execution, time and cost. 
 
Multi-disciplinary teams were guided towards a focus on execution technique and choice of material already at the preliminary stage in an attempt to realise sustainable objects as far as possible, moving towards structures that, working by shape, require a limited amount of material, simple and inexpensive construction phases, disassembly and re-use.