Program

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Day 1 | 29th September

Aula Magna, BUB - Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna

>> Introduction

  • 13:00 - 13:20

    Professor Danila Longo | Department of Architecture, University of Bologna; coordinator of the TRACE team - Technology and Resilience in Architecture, Construction and Environment

>> Welcome greetings

  • 13:20 - 13:30

    Professor Mario Losasso | President of SitdA - the Italian Society of Technology of Architecture

>> HERITAGE AND CRISES

  • 13:30 - 15:00

    Cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, as resource and field of application of risk mitigation initiatives, safeguarding, conservation and enhancement actions addressing crises matters.

    Chair: Rossella Roversi | Department of Architecture, University of Bologna
  • 13:40 - 14:00

    Heritage and Crises in the Digital Age (Keynote speech)

  • 14:00 - 14:15

    Smart cities and digital twins

  • 14:15 - 14:30

    Getting through pandemic. Enhancing preservation and health in artistic and cultural sites.

  • 14:30 - 14:45

    Managing Crisis by managing heritage. Enhancement tactics for historic cities in transition

Coffee break

>> URBAN CRISES IN HISTORY

  • 15:15 - 17:00

    Lessons learned from historical experiences, surveys, memories, sudden changes, unexpected events, and so forth, to draw up and experiment solutions and hints responsive to multiple and urban crises conditions.

    Chair: Martina Massari | Department of Architecture, University of Bologna
  • 15:25 - 15:45

    Cities facing crises. Is Urban planning still a good tool for adaptation? (Keynote speech)

  • 15:45 - 16:00

    In the aftermath of world war, revolutions, and civil wars in 1918-1939. The role of urban planning in shaping modern nations and capital cities in Eastern Europe

  • 16:00 - 16:15

    Urban renewal of the workers district Kallio 1933-1986

  • 16:15 - 16:30

    “Adorable Crisis”. The city tested by the Great Depression and other economic disasters

  • 16:30 - 16:50

    Cities and Crises: Patterns of Memorialisation

>> Closure

17:00 - 17:15

Day 2 | 30th September

Aula Magna, BUB - Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna

>> Opening

  • 09:00 - 09:10

    Professor Danila Longo | Department of Architecture, University of Bologna; coordinator of the TRACE team - Technology and Resilience in Architecture, Construction and Environment

>> Welcome greetings

  • 09:10 - 09:20

    Professor Fabrizio Ivan Apollonio | Director of the Department of Architecture, University of Bologna

>> Opening speeches

Coffee break

>> CRISES PREPAREDNESS OF CONTEMPORARY CITIES

  • 10:30 - 13:00

    Urban environments at different scale are intended as the main scenario with respect to which explore proactive tools, technologies, projects, initiatives and policies tackling a wide range of crises and challenges involving the environmental, climatic, social, political, economic, spatial, educational, migration, residential, etc. dimension.

    Chair: Serena Orlandi | Department of Architecture, University of Bologna
  • 10:40 - 11:00

    Climate neutrality by 2030: mission (im)possible? (Keynote speech)

  • 11:00 - 11:15

    Climate Neutral and Smart Cities: the EU view

  • 11:15 - 11:30

    Critical spatial practices for empowerment

  • 11:30 - 11:45

    Care as adjacency. Thinking possibilities for the urban project with care and repair at the urban margins

  • 11:45 - 12:00

    Energy communities as a strategy for the contemporary energy crisis in Europe. A utopia for the future or a viable answer? Reflections from the GRETA project.

  • 12:00 - 12:15

    Dealing with sprawl: ambitions and challenges. Reflections from the cases of Portland, Denver and Minneapolis

  • 12:15 - 12:30

    A post-industrial landscape as a future-oriented (re-)generative driver for a sustainable living environment

Light Lunch

>> RETHINKING URBAN SPACES AND FORMATS OF CULTURE

  • 14:00 - 16:00

    Cultural formats, programmes, ecosystems and networks, collaborative projects, temporary interventions, etc. involving urban public spaces, including unconventional ones, represent additional and integrative tools for responding to contemporary crises.

    Chair: Francesca Sabatini | Department of Architecture, University of Bologna
  • 14:10 - 14:30

    Urbs, Civitas, Domus, Foedus: new challenges in the government of urban spaces in the example of the Bologna “city of Knowledge” flagship program (Keynote speech)

  • 14:30 - 14:45

    Unformatting the city: the challenge of emerging complexitiesurban eco-systems and evolutionary species

  • 14:45 - 15:00

    Bogotá - how culture is co-producing urban space to tackle multiple crisis

  • 15:00 - 15:15

    Waves of crisis in urban cultural policy and practices: a matter of value

  • 15:15 - 15:30

    Innovating tools towards mobilising creative and collective practices of commoning

  • 15:30 - 15:45

    Tbilisi – a new role for the architecture of soviet modernism

Coffee break

>> Wrap-up and closure

16:15 - 17:00