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Vegetation series as a marker of interactions between rural settlements and landscape: new insights from the archaeological record in Western Sicily

2020

[EN] Plant communities are complex and dynamic elements of the landscape, intertwined with both natural factors and human activities. Vegetation series reflect the environmental characteristics of the landscape, but also the anthropic impact, one of the exogenous forces that most profoundly affects the landscape formation process. This paper aims to investigate the interactions between long-term human settlement catchment areas and vegetation series. The case study area of the Sicani Mountains (Central-Western Sicily) proved to be an ideal place to perform GIS-based spatial analysis in order to compare a data set of rural archaeological sites and land units created through the mapping of ve…

Vocazione pedagogica delle rovine: ricostruzione reale e riconfigurazione ideale e idealizzata ad Augusta Raurica

2009

Architettura e natura nei centri minori in Sicilia. Esperienze temporanee di progetto: la cascata di San Nicola nella valle di Bolognetta

2021

The current Covid-19 emergency has revealed the crucial role of the health issue, not only in terms of healthcare facilities, but also in new ways to get better, spend more free time outdoors, eat healthy and revive the economies of Local communities. Action research takes on a leading role of the Recovery Fund, of the Green New Deal in order to identify better opportunities and strategies, increasing administrative capacities and skills in small towns, through a better use of available European, national and regional funds aimed at regenerate places that until yesterday were considered on the margins. The small towns must have territorial projects capable of combining development and susta…

TERRITORI TRASVERSALI. Centri minori rurali e industriali in Sicilia e Spagna

2021

The orographic and natural conditions, together with small towns’ cultural, heritage and industrial conditions, have become the landscape of relationships between spaces where silence, slowing down and acceleration define the urban and human imaginary of these transversal territories. Although very different from each other in terms of topographical location, traditions and cultural and linguistic specificities, it is possible to find constants of criticality and potential. This essay illustrates new read¬ings and settles meanings to initiate a collaborative work in Sicily and Spain along the Trasversale Sicula and in the mining landscape of the Minas de La Reunión in the province of Sevill…

International distance learning design experiences. Above the clouds, a project for a temporary event in the Bolognetta valley

2021

The health emergency due to the spread of COVID-19 has required a methodological and technological adaptation to the entire world of teaching and researching, in order to define in a brief time new methods for designing and teaching. In consideration of this, Campus Asia1 decided to organize one of the key events of its educational offer in a distance learning form, an international winter school with overn eighty participants and five international guest universities. Together with Kyushu University (China), Tongji University (Japan) and Pusan National University (South Korea), the edition held between 15 and 26 February 2021 saw the participation of two European partner universities, the …

Territori sensibili. La Trasversale sicula e la rete dei Centri minori rurali in Sicilia

2021

La ricerca sui processi di spopolamento e di abbandono delle piccole città è essenziale per agire sulla situazione attuale e sulle sue prospettive proponendo nuovi scenari, sperimentando metodologie d'azione, fornendo formazione a professionisti, e lancio di opportunità di investimento. In questi luoghi, il paesaggio si intreccia con il mito, alimentando le connessioni tra storia antica e storia recente, da un lato, e sostenendo l'ipotesi di una trasformazione anche minima del paesaggio attraverso variazioni e interpretazioni di ciò che esiste, dall'altro. La riprogettazione del territorio della Trasversale Sicula coniuga situazioni materiali e immateriali e immaginari che trovano nella ret…

Smart city: casi studio

2015

Il capitolo effettua un'ampia ricognizione delle smart city nel mondo, dagli esempi europei più noti alle smart city nelle città asiatiche. Da Masdar negli Emirati Arabi a Stoccolma, che in questi ultimi anni ha rigenerato con un'ottica smart interi quartieri (Hammarby Syostad e il Royal Seaport), cambiando complessivamente il volto della città. Il capitolo in questa terza edizione dedica un'attenzione speciale alle città asiatiche - la Cina ad esempio - che oggi si confrontano con profondi mutamenti socio-economici e imponenti e veloci fenomeni di urbanizzazione.

Palermo senziente. Città di persone e città di sensori

2021

Nel mondo contemporaneo, razionalità e percezione non nascono più nella mente e nei sensi umani. Un recente libro curato da Grazia Concilio e Francesca Rizzo mostra numerose sfaccettature di questa questione. Quando nel 2017 Maurizio Carta introduce il concetto di città senziente, rafforza significativamente le basi per integrare ragione e sentimento urbanistico, cioè per integrare la razionalità della conoscenza strutturata e finalizzata al processo di pianificazione con le percezioni derivanti dalla “pancia” della città. Il contributo propone una visione innovativa sulla dualità analitica e valutativa che si genera tra mondo reale e mondo digitale, tra gli abitanti-utenti delle città e gl…

Right to the Future

2017

During the last decade, the city of Palermo has been undergoing relevant transformations from various perspectives. This has been the consequences of a multitude of circumstances, European financial crisis, migrants/refugees crisis, a new administration of the city and an increased awareness and responsibility among the citizens. Various national and international recognitions (Italian Cultural Capital 2018, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Manifesta 12, Youth Capital 2017) have confirmed that they are on the right path. This positive moment has been launched and, progressively, rid- den by many young professionals that decided to challenge the present situation by investing their…

The Smart Land Paradigm in the Sicani Territorial Archipelago

2017

With the aim to identify the specific identities of the Sicani territory, to interpret them in a perspective of innovative development and to define strategies capable of intercepting programming in progress, it has been deepened the “territorial archipelago” theoretical framework , recognizing it into the Sicani territory and trying to use it as the base of a possible development of a Smart Land, as a “non-gravitational” paradigm able to recognize and to direct the new relations of the rur-urban local systems.