After first course in “Architecture for the Landscape,” FUM relaunches partnership with YACademy again for 2024
Business Academies are a growing phenomenon: their development has become fundamental and integral for those companies that place people and knowledge creation at their center. FUM is part of these companies that,in order to respond to changes in markets and consumption,have set themselves the goal of innovation,concentrating part of their resources and energies in the training sector.
With its Academy,created at the end of 2022, FUM has expressed the courage to take a medium-term perspective in sharing knowledge, values, behaviors and growth strategies, creating a physical and virtual place where knowledge, techniques, practices and innovative ideas can be shared and developed to ensure the future growth of the Company and the people who work in or gravitate around it.
In these two years of life, the FUM Academy has fostered the consolidation of human capital, intangible assets of knowledge and professionalism, greatly enhancing the internal sense of belonging and the relational sphere on the outside.
On this path, it has met, among others, a partner of excellence: YACademy, a post-graduate training institution, which is responsible for creating important connections between young talents, big companies and significant witnesses of contemporary architecture.
The synergy between FUM and YACademy was born under the star of excellence and materialized in the fall of 2023 with the holding of the course in “Architecture for the Landscape,” organized together with FUM with an exceptional tutor such as Patrick Lüth, director of Snøhetta’s Austrian headquarters, who guided the young architects selected for the master’s program in a full immersion between the marble quarries and the company’s headquarters in Avenza.
The training course, which took place in close contact with Carrara marble and the FUM world, turned into a real incubator of ideas, in a scenario of constant exchange between the Company’s internal resources, YACademy, the students and their tutor Patrick Lüth , who shared with the entire working group the vision that Snøhetta proposes of Carrara marble, which is already often used in their biggest projects, in the context of a responsible architecture that is increasingly attentive to the centrality of man and his needs.
The brief proposed to the young architects, who came from all over the world and were divided into working groups, was to formulate a project for the recovery and reuse of the Ponti di Vara Quarry, a place dense with history, evocative and with a strong identity trait; thus a good generator of suggestions and ideas.
The results of the work of the young architects of YACademy were later presented in Milan: they received consensus and approval from the property, giving certain and positive feedback on how well the initial input of working on the ideas according to the ‘site specific’ approach had been received, thus in a creative way, but in a responsible and respectful way of the place, the people and the material.
The experience was so positive that it was decided to replicate it with a new course, organized by FUM Academy in partnership with YACademy, which will address the world of architecture and will take place in Carrara in the spaces dedicated by the Company to Academy training activities. For this year the theme will be important and sensitive: the Architecture of the Sacred. Registration will open this fall, and the course will take place in 2025.
