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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…
Vivere la città in evoluzione: il ruolo dei paesaggi urbani storici
2021
Cultural and social aspects in post pandemic age are mainly connected with land use, mainly in high-density urban contexts. It is relevantly in historical centres where urban communities ask for spaces for cultural activities, creativity, aimed at social cohesion. The paper describes this condition in UNESCO Historical Urban Landscape Policy and demonstrates in what way it can be applied at Palermo Historical Centre.
HISTORIC URBAN LANDSCAPES: HOW TO IMPROVE NEOCOSMOPOLITANISM IN HISTORIC CENTRES
2021
The increased population density caused by the combination of predatory capitalism and the hyper-rational design of contemporary cities—starting with the rigid zoning of spaces and functions—began in the eighteenth century. Since the 1960s, the idea has spread that the Industrial Revolution was not, per se, a negative event, because the concentration of its effects caused the rise of the Anthropocene (Crutzen, Stoermer 2000). In this context, for the past fifty years, UNESCO and the Council of Europe have declared the social and cultural aspects of landscape and cultural identity preservation to be fundamental rights (Council of Europe 2000), and governments have approved laws and adopted o…
Urban Events as Cosmopolitan Accelerators and Post-Pandemic Cities: Reflections on Manifesta 12 in Palermo
2021
International events are important opportunities to generate (global) open spaces and networks, and are one of the greatest accelerators of cosmopolitan networks. The global Covid- 19 crisis asks us to rethink the mobility of people and the interconnections between and within cities, where networks and connections are the most powerful accelerators of what we may call the cosmopolitan dimension of urban life. How can we rethink Cosmopolitan Habitat in light of the pandemic? What kinds of international event will we be able to promote from an intra- and post-pandemic perspective? This contribution analyses the experiences of Manifesta 12 in Palermo. The event is explored as a field of experi…
COSMOPOLITAN HABITAT WORKSHOP
2021
The Cosmopolitan Habitat workshop invites international PhD candidates, students, young scientists, academics, and urban planning and design professionals to discuss and reflect on the spatial dimension of migration, the different human cultures that increasingly characterize European cities, and new living spaces in the project area, the historic centre of Palermo. The students, together with young urban planning and design scientists, are asked to discover potentialities for Cosmopolitan Habitat in Palermo and design new future scenarios. The paper reports the outcomes of the workshop.
Palermo habitat multi-specie. Per un'integrazione fra uomo, natura e animali nella città neocosmopolita
2021
Le città sono per molti versi habitat cosmopoliti perché ospitano una grande varietà umana, animale e vegetale. Così come in natura la biodiversità è più ricca laddove maggiore è l’eterogeneità ambientale, anche nei contesti antropizzati si verifica lo stesso fenomeno (Mainardi, 2016). Parchi, edifici, campanili, insenature offrono una pluralità di habitat e spazi per altre specie che coesistono con l’uomo da sempre e si sovrappongono agli spazi di vita degli esseri umani, dando vita a dinamiche di convivenza (non sempre pacifica) multi-specifiche. L’attuale situazione pandemica ha generato le condizioni per cui la nostra specie ha potuto osservare nuovamente le altre che la circondano, ani…