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Tecnologie digitali per la visibilità del patrimonio culturale. L'immagine di Tarragona nella prospettiva dell'offerta

2023

This work aims to contribute to the debate on the role of new technologies in the process of urban image construction, presenting as a case study the digital offering of the UNESCO site of Tarragona. Inclusion on the World Heritage List may represent a decisive event in the definition of an urban image, which new technologies can promote and project to the outside world. By making the winning narrative visible, technologies offer spaces for tourist desire and consumption and show us how cities are told by highlighting some aspects and excluding others. After explaining the dynamics of the context under study, the paper demonstrates how digital tools can convey a brand, mediate or transfigur…

Digital Representation of Urban Changes: Fragments of the Medieval Palermo

2018

In June 2015, the serial heritage site “Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalù and Monreale” was placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Maredolce Castle and the Scibene Palace, owing to the loss of original elements or due to problems of conservation and function, once resolved, cannot be part of the itinerary. This text proposes a new reading of the configuration of the sites of the monuments analysed. It looks at important moments in their history and represents the modifications made over time. A digital model of the current situation was developed using information assumed from the Carta Tecnica Comunale (Municipal Technical Map). This document served as a start…

Sicilia sotto il segno dell'UNESCO/Sycily: under the sign of UNESCO

2015

La Sicilia con i suoi sette siti, è la prima regione italiana insieme alla Lombardia, che però ne detiene in esclusiva solo cinque e due li condivide, uno con il Piemonte e un altro con la Svizzera. L’Isola però, oltre i sette siti di beni culturali e naturali, ha ottenuto l’iscrizione di due beni nella lista del patrimonio culturale immateriale dell’umanità (IHL): “L’Opera dei Pupi” (2001) e “La vite ad alberello di Pantelleria” (2014), e svolge un ruolo strategico e centrale per “La dieta Mediterranea” (2010).1 Tra patrimonio materiale e immateriale, la Sicilia detiene dieci beni. Rappresentando la regione del mondo con il più alto numero di riconoscimenti dall’UNESCO. I siti Siciliani is…

Design for all strategies for the Palermo's Arab and Norman UNESCO itinerary

2021

Sicily, with its seven sites recognized by UNESCO, is the Italian region that can boast the highest number of them: the last elected is Palermo, which since 2015 is also part of the prestigious World Heritage List. The Palermo itinerary unfolds through eight stages: Royal Palace, Palatine Chapel, Churches of San Giovanni degli Eremiti, Martorana, San Cataldo, Cathedral, Zisa Castle, Bridge of mmiraglio to which the cathedrals of Cefalù and Monreale. However, Palermo has critical issues that make the tourist route difficult and uncomfortable, not easily accessible due to the limited physical connections that make it difficult for both citizens and tourists with disabilities to move from one …

Palermo e l'eredità Arabo-normanna

2015

La Palermo arabo-normanna mantiene viva la memoria di una città aperta, multietnica, riflesso e manifestazione di un sincretismo culturale che, nei secoli, l’ha resa unica e meritevole di essere custodita, valorizzata e riconosciuta come un autentico “gioiello”, patrimonio dell’umanità. Tra i monumenti arabo-normanni presenti, ne sono stati selezionati undici che preservano in modo pressoché integrale le componenti architettoniche e decorative e che si presentano in buono stato di conservazione. Si tratta infatti delle opere più rappresentative e artisticamente rilevanti nelle quali è possibile riconoscere inequivocabilmente i tratti salienti dell’arte arabo - normanna in tutte le sue mirab…

Le linee guida per la valorizzazione del patrimonio UNESCO. Uno studio dei siti siciliani.

La premessa necessaria al progetto di ricerca ha le sue radici nell’idea ormai consolidata che oggi la cultura, soprattutto nella sua accezione di “Patrimonio” naturale, culturale materiale e immateriale, si configura come una fondamentale risorsa e leva per realizzare lo sviluppo sostenibile dei territori. Il patrimonio culturale e naturale è una fonte di ricchezza: contribuisce allo sviluppo dell’uomo e la sua tutela svolge un ruolo importante nel progresso dell’umanità. Tale approccio implica il recupero della cultura come elemento che ha assunto, nel tempo, caratteri meno banali, più articolati, affiancando alla conservazione e alla valorizzazione del bene culturale, la produzione di…

Preservation of cultural heritage via education of children, utilizing visual communication: Persepolis as a case of study

2018

Focusing on the next generations as the owners of the heritage, development of the educational approach for children is an important issue which would assist the preservation of cultural affairs. Provision of the possibilities by which children can get familiar with their cultural treasures would support the cultural sustaining and maintaining approaches of the society while this chain would deliver the cultural values more effectively. Among several approaches, visual communication as the unique language which can be understood and utilized by every nation has been considered as an educational approach for children to promote their knowledge on the value of cultural heritage. Considering t…

Visual Perception and Graphic Analysis. The Pattern of Inlays in the Cathedral of Palermo

2017

The Cathedral of Palermo is one of the monuments belonging to the Arab-Norman Itinerary, declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2015. This text uses geometric analysis to describe some of the inlaid circular designs from the eastern façade, the corner towers and the apses. The cataloguing of the two-tone geometric motifs also reveals aspects that can be linked back to the laws of visual perception. Hence, the text investigates these aspects based on a new reading. In fact, decomposing these elements based on the experience of their perception also facilitates the recognition of elementary figures. The attempt made in this brief text intends to induce a new perceptive awareness resulting f…

The Resilience of the Valley of Temples Among Natural Calamities and Social Disaster

2017

Preservation of the cultural heritage, intended as common patrimony, is a cultural achievement that in territories like Sicily, which has often suffered the lack of legality, is the result of a difficult process of implementation. Cultural heritage is not ruined exclusively by natural calamities: damages caused by social and cultural disasters may at times be even more devastating. The archeological park of Agrigento, born in 1947 after a natural disaster (a landslide in 1944), hides a history of a half century of battles between the illegal land use and legislative measures to protect a cultural heritage recognized worldwide (registered in the WHL in 1997). After fifty years of attacks aga…

FOR SOMETHING THAT WAS OURS… NOW IT BELONGS TO ALL OF HUMANITY”: WORLD HERITAGE AS THE EXPRESSION OF CONFLICTS

2020

Resumen: En este artículo nos interesa reflexionar sobre la naturaleza conflictiva del patrimonio, que suele ser silenciada por su potente imaginario como capital cultural, económico y social y como signo de distinción. A través de un análisis detallado del proceso mediante el cual el tango y las fallas pasaron a formar parte de la Lista Representativa del Patrimonio de la Humanidad, nos adentramos en las dimensiones hegemónicas y de los procesos patrimoniales, así como en la esencia beligerante de las resistencias locales que se enfrentan a las lógicas del patrimonio neoliberal. Estos casos nos permiten vislumbrar las relaciones conflictivas que a menudo se establecen entre distintas lógic…