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Pasta alla Norma: il piatto perfetto
2020
Il capitolo ricostruisce la genesi culturale di uno dei piatti più rappresentativi e universalmente apprezzati della cucina siciliana: la pasta alla Norma. Questo piatto si presta come un caso esemplare di studio del "mito delle origini", ossia di mito alimentare che condensa, nelle proprie strutture semantiche, il suo valore sociale stesso. Il capitolo approfondisce l'intertestualità tra pietanza e aneddoto, la particolare composizione figurativa ed estesica del piatto, oltre che le condizioni culturali che ne determinano il valore di "perfezione". The chapter reconstructs the cultural genesis of one of the most representative and universally appreciated dishes of Sicilian cuisine: pasta a…
Cous cous teaches that love never stops!
2022
La tradizione culinaria del cous cous, originaria dei paesi del Nord Africa e del Maghreb, sbarcata in Sicilia a seguito della dominazione araba e diffusasi grazie alle attività commerciali intraprese dai pescatori siciliani, ha conquistato la cucina regionale che ne ha inaugurato una variante originale: il cous cous di pesce. L’innesto tra culture gastronomiche differenti è stato lo spunto per l’avvio di una nuova tradizione culturale, il San Vito Cous Cous Fest, un evento gastronomico/culturale all’insegna dell’integrazione tra i popoli, della convivenza pacifica, dell’arricchimento reciproco e del cibo come nutrimento dell’anima. The culinary tradition of cous cous, original from the cou…
DIAGNOSTICS FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE: ANALYTICAL APPROACH FOR AN EFFECTIVE CONSERVATION
2014
Information systems for preservation of cultural heritage
2000
The preservation of the cultural heritage has become at present a subject of fundamental importance in Italy, above all because of the numerous unhappy events, due to not only natural reasons, happened in these last years. Besides this problem is particularly urgent in Sicily, because of the existence of a considerable cultural heritage and in absence of a complete and systematic inventory. To tackle such a complex subject, the use of informatics is required, since the traditional methods, based especially on paper documentation, are absolutely inadequate. Particularly, this work deals with the cultural heritage inventory selected according to: - historical urban centres; - archaeological s…
The Mathematical Table of the Palazzina Cinese in Palermo. Animation and Virtual Reality Techniques for an Edutainment Project
2023
The Palazzina Cinese of Palermo was built on a project by Venanzio Marvuglia in 1799 on behalf of Ferdinand IV of Borbone, when the royal family, fleeing from Naples following the establishment of the Parthenopean Republic, moved to Sicily. The building, known as “Chinese” due to its style, is full of particular architectural and decorative solutions. An element of particular interest is theMathematical Table, designed to avoid any contact between the living room and the kitchen below, isolating it from smells and servants. Thanks to a complex system of winches and pulleys, in fact, the dishes could be served by letting the central portion of the table and small circular areas fall into the…
Gibellina City of Art
2018
The earthquake that hit Western Sicily in 1968 destroyed, among others, the town of Gibellina. Back then, the town was abandoned and a new city was built ex novo at a distance of eighteen kilometres from the original site. The ex novo foundation of a new city requires the interaction of two fundamental components: one characterised by a physical-formal nature, related to urban layout and architectural characterisations, and the other related to socio-cultural issues concerning the relationships between citizens and their city. If the rst component might be dealt with by means of theories and techniques from architectural and urban disciplines, how is it possible to deal with the even more i…
The virtual reconstruction of temple B in Selinunte excavation site
2008
This paper proposes a study on the virtual reconstruction of temple B in Selinunte. It is the smallest of Selinunte’s temples yet, despite its size, it has been the subject of great interest and debate by scholars since its discovery in 1823. The studies carried out throughout the XIX century and the first half of the XX century provided different renderings, especially as to the organization of the elevation. The goal of this work is the virtual anastylosis of temple B, through the study of all available historical sources, the survey of fragments preserved today at the “A.Salinas” Regional Archaeology Museum in Palermo, and the survey of the finds at Selinunte’s site. The virtual reconstr…
RISO, museo d'arte contemporanea della Sicilia
2009
C’è in Riso, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, una volontà di radicarsi nel territorio che emerge già nel disegno del piccolo logotipo che connota il museo palermitano inaugurato nel 2008. La prima lettera è una R corposa e densa di inchiostro, generata dalla rotazione di una Trinacria che ha perso ogni tratto espressionista, per ridiventare un potente segno grafico che richiama alla memoria elementi dell’architettura classica che tanti esempi ha disseminato sull’isola. Le altre tre lettere sottomesse formalmente alla prima la seguono dichiarando attraverso il disegno stencil, la propria natura di elementi temporanei e leggeri, che in molte declinazioni si annullano per lasciare la …
Innovative techniques for survey and communication of cultural heritage
2008
This paper deals with the survey and communications of Cultural Heritage through the development of innovative methodologies. The case of study is the polychrome wooden ceiling in the “Magna” Hall of “Palazzo Steri”. The “Steri”, built in the XIVth century by the noble family Chiaromonte, is at the present the headquarter of the Rector’s Office of Palermo University. A 3D model of the wooden ceiling has initially been carried out with laser-scanning and digital photogrammetric techniques; successively a multimodal interactive guide has been realized. The guide is integrated to the 3D model, so that visitors can navigate the virtual representation of the ancient wood ceiling and achieve, int…
BIM e beni architettonici: verso una metodologia operativa per la conoscenza e la gestione del patrimonio culturale. BIM and architectural heritage: …
2016
The study aims to answer the growing need for virtuously organize informational apparatuses related to Cultural Heritage. We propose a methodology that integrates multidisciplinary processes of interaction with information aimed at survey, documentation, management, knowledge and enhancement of historic artifacts. It is needed to review and update the procedure of instrumental data acquisition, standardization and structuring of the acquired data in a three-dimensional semantic model as well as the subsequent representability and accessibility of the model and the related database. If the use of Building Information Modeling has in recent years seen a consolidation in the procedures and the…