Opening Tuesday 6 September - Castello del Valentino
Dissemination events: parallel presentations of research and teaching outcomes, exhibitions and experiences as open invitation for students and citizens
PART I
15.00-16.30 – SALA Gigli
Round Table Towards Adaptive, Climate Neutral and Resilient Historic Urban Districts
Speakers: Aitziber Egusquiza Ortega (SHELTER Project Coordinator, TECNALIA), Claudio Rossi (Program Manager at LINKS Foundation), Edoardo Patti (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino), Louis Durrant (Postdoctoral Researcher, LEMA Research Group, University of Liege), Eleonora Melandri (Member of the coordination team of the Ravenna Open Lab, University of Bologna)
In response to the global need to address the resilience and sustainable reconstruction of historic areas to cope with climate change and natural disasters, an R&I European Task Force has been established by the Horizon 2020 projects ARCH, HYPERION, and SHELTER. The vision of this task force is to bridge the gap between urban development, resilience planning and heritage management to boost collaboration among all involved stakeholders and make our cities more climate neutral and resilient. Its vision is to stimulate and promote the development and wider adoption of solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation in historic urban districts. It will promote constructive dialogue, development, and exchange of best practices for achieving better integration between resilient urban planning and heritage management. After this introduction, there will be a specific focus on the SHELTER project, showcasing the challenges that have been faced, the digital tools developed and the best practice in terms of governance and case studies.
15.00-17.30 – Corte d’Onore del Castello del Valentino
Experience
Health, wellbeing and Adaptive Societies
Korian Fermata Alzheimer's 2022 is a traveling installation with virtual reality stations to immerse people with Alzheimer's in the sensory world.
Camper equipped with virtual reality stations reveal how people with Alzheimer see and feel their surroundings. Open-door awareness event in partnership with Korian, a European group specializing in personal care services. .
15.00 – Sala Colonne
Opening of exhibitions – Exhi.B.A.P. – Cultural Heritage in Exhibition
Curatorship by School of Specialization in Architectural and Landscape Heritage (coordinator Chiara Devoti)
-The exhibition consists of 20 panels prepared by the School's 1st and 2nd year trainees as part of their Atelier tasks, based on the themes of the eight macrosessions of the Congress, with a perspective that is also - if appropriate - very different from the one declined by the sessions proposed as part of the Congress.
The (re)built heritage. Recovering fragments of the city to rewire the territory
Curatorship by The Doctoral Program in Urban and Regional Development (coordinator Marco Santangelo)
-The exhibition builds on the experience of a project promoted and funded by DIST as part of a departmental research call for which photographs had been taken of sectors of Turin undergoing transformation (photographs of Lorenzo Attardo), offering an overview of more or less "adaptive" spaces around which to push the thinking of PhD candidates whose path focuses on urban and territorial complexity.
15.00-16.00 – AULA 9V
Workshop Adaptive cities, declinations of the theme and possible interactions
Speakers: Elena Frugoni (Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la Città Metropolitana di Torino, Resp. Area Patrimonio Architettonico), Stefano Benedetto (Direttore Archivio di Stato di Torino e Soprintendente Beni archivistici e librari Piemonte e Valle d’Aosta), Gustavo Mola di Nomaglio (Vicepresidente Centro Studi Piemontesi – Ca dë Studi Piemontèis – Torino), Fabio Uliana (Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino, Coordinatore Ufficio manoscritti, fondi antichi e collezioni speciali e tutela, conservazione e restauro) specializzandi, docenti e tutore dell’Atelier della Scuola dedicato ad Adaptive Cities)
Moderator: Chiara Devoti (Direttrice Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Architettonici e del Paesaggio, Politecnico di Torino)
-Seminar curated by traineers with the presence of representatives of city institutions repositories that collect sources for understanding from the city and active in the study of transformations (State Archives, Archival Superintendence, Ministry of Cultural Heritage, National University Library, Center of Piedmont Studies).
16.00-17.00 – AULA 9V
Workshop
The (re)built heritage. Recovering fragments of the city to rewire the territory
Speakers: Antonio De Rossi (Politecnico di Torino, Coordinatore Masterplan Team), Elena Frugoni (Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la Città Metropolitana di Torino, Resp. Area Patrimonio Architettonico), Chiara Lucchini (Torino Urban Lab, Referente Area Sviluppo Territoriale), Alessandra Quarta (Università degli Studi di Torino, Delegata del Rettore per la promozione ed il consolidamento dei rapporti dell’Ateneo con la Città di Torino nei processi di rigenerazione urbana), Loris Servillo (Politecnico di Torino, Direttore FULL, coord. locale Horizon SMARTDEST)
Moderator: Marco Santangelo (coordinatore dottorato in Urban and Regional Development, Politecnico di Torino)
-Seminar curated by PhD candidates of Urban and Regional Development Program, with the presence of urban transformation actors (Mayor, City Planning Councillor, Master Plan Managers, Superintendency, etc.). seminar curated by PhD candidates of Urban and Regional Development Program, with the presence of urban transformation actors (Mayor, City Planning Councillor, Master Plan Managers, Superintendency, etc.).
15.00-16.00 – Sala Caccia
Presentation of the volume The Cambridge Urban History of Europe. Urbanization in three waves
Volume 1: Antiquity edited by Penelope Davies (University of Texas, Austin) and Christina Williamson (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen); Volume 2: c. 700 – c. 1850 edited by Patrick Lantschner (University College London) and Maarten Prak (Universiteit Utrecht); Volume 3: c. 1850 – 2000s edited by Dorothee Brantz (Technische Universität Berlin), Gábor Sonkoly (Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest), Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Speakers Gábor Sonkoly (Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest), Rosa Tamborrino (Politecnico di Torino, Presidente AISU International)
This book presentation is about an unprecedentedly extensive urban history of Europe in the making. The three-volume project began following the initiative of Maarten Prak, the editor-in-chief, in 2020 with the objective of providing an overall narrative of the European urbanisation though c. 120 chapters by the end of 2023.The volumes are determined by the three waves of urbanisation covering approximately 10,000 years of urban history of Europe. Accordingly, the first wave ended with the collapse of the Roman Empire, which was followed by a dramatic reduction in the urban population, in both absolute and relative numbers. The second wave started around 1000CE, depending on the regions of Europe. It continued slowly but steadily until the mid-nineteenth century. The third wave was a marked acceleration of the rate of urbanisation, and the size of cities. The presentation is about (1) the current state of the project; (2) the challenges of such a collective work about urban history; and more specifically (3) the definition of modern and contemporary European urbanisation, which is the topic of Volume 3.
15.00-17.00 – AULA 6V
Presentation of the volume La città medievale, la città dei frati | Medieval city. City of the friars: il progetto e le prospettive di ricerca
by Silvia Beltramo (Politecnico di Torino), Gianmario Guidarelli (Università di Padova)
Speakers Serena Romano Gosetti di Sturmeck (Università di Losanna), Andrea Longhi (Politecnico di Torino), Massimo Mancini o.p. (Facoltà Teologica dell’Emilia Romagna)
IThe international research project La città medievale. La città dei frati. Medieval city. City of the friars The international research project La città medievale. The city of friars. Medieval city. City of the friars (scientific referees Silvia Beltramo and Gianmario Guidarelli), which started in 2018 thanks to the funding of the 2018 AISU Networking Call for Proposal, emerges from the desire to resume research with new approaches and methods of investigation and also overcome some established topoi on the city-friars link. The question as well as the title of the new volume (La città medievale è la città dei frati) was brought to discussion during the July 2019 seminar in Turin, which represented the first public meeting of the network, organized by Politecnico di Torino (DIST) and the University of Padua (ICEA). The project has matured in recent years a series of study experiences that have seen numerous moments of national and international presentations in congresses (EAUH and EAHN) and seminars, such as participation in the IX AISU Congress in Bologna in 2019, with the session entitled The medieval city, the city of friars: places and spaces of confrontation and exchange, published in 2020, which was attended by approximately 30 speakers. On this occasion, the meeting that was designed in the seminar form open to students and scholars, aims to present the outcomes of a part of research published in the recent volume La città medievale è la città dei frati? Is the medieval town the city of the friars? (2021, series Medieval Architecture), and in the publication The medieval city, the city of the friars: places and spaces of confrontation and exchange (2020, series AISU Insights), bringing suggestions for updated study paths. Scholars from various disciplines, authors and representatives of the Mendicant orders will discuss together starting from the issues addressed in the edited texts toward to new lines of research. 2018 AISU Networking Call for Proposal, emerge dalla volontà di riprendere le ricerche con nuovi approcci e metodi di indagine e superare anche alcuni topoi consolidati sul legame città e frati. L’interrogativo, nonché titolo del nuovo volume (La città medievale è la città dei frati) è stato portato al confronto durante il seminario di Torino, nel luglio del 2019, che ha rappresentato il primo incontro pubblico del network, organizzato da Politecnico di Torino (DIST) e dall’Università di Padova (ICEA). Il progetto ha maturato in questi anni una serie di esperienze di studio che hanno visto numerosi momenti di presentazione nazionali e internazionali in congressi (EAUH e EAHN) e seminari, quali la partecipazione al IX Congresso AISU di Bologna nel 2019, con la sessione La città medievale, la città dei frati: luoghi e spazi di confronto e scambio, pubblicata nel 2020, che ha visto la partecipazione di una trentina di relatori. In questa occasione, l’incontro, pensato nella forma seminariale aperta a studenti e studiosi, vuole presentare gli esiti di alcune ricerche pubblicate nel recente volume La città medievale è la città dei frati? Is the medieval town the city of the friars? (2021, collana Architettura medievale), e nella pubblicazione La città medievale, la città dei frati: luoghi e spazi di confronto e scambio (2020, collana AISU Insights), portando suggerimenti per aggiornati percorsi di studio. Studiosi di varie discipline, autori e rappresentanti degli ordini Mendicanti discuteranno insieme a partire dalle tematiche affrontate nei testi editi verso nuove linee di ricerca.
15.00-17.00 – AULA 7V
Presentation of the volume La città degli igienisti. Riforme e utopie sanitarie nell’Italia umbertina
by Guido Zucconi, Carocci, 2022
Speakers: Elena Dellapiana (Politecnico di Torino), Luca Mocarelli (Università di Milano Bicocca), Massimiliano Savorra (Università di Pavia)
At the center of the volume is the sanitary revolution of the last quarter of the nineteenthcentury,, propitiated by the microscope and the extraordinary discoveries of Pasteur and Koch. Thanks to them, the causes of such momentous scourges as typhoid, cholera and pulmonary tuberculosis are identified. The environment where people lives and works, especially the overcrowded city following the colossal population increase, ends up under accusation.. As exactly defined by Pasteur, the "salubrious space" makes it possible to turn the tide, provided it is verified at all scales: from restrooms to collective facilities, from workplaces to individual housing. According to a priori forms and optimal dimensions, the concept will then how to be applied to this universe, including the city itself, for the first time measured and considered in quantitative terms. Under this perspective, the great evils typical of urban centers no longer seem to belong to the natural order of things but become solvable problems with medium- and long-term remedies. Besides, tackling such an immense task requires the creation of new skills, such as sanitary engineering, and new figures, such as the hygienist, to be placed somewhere between science and administration, at the intersection of different but synergistic scientific fields (biology and medicine, statistics and civil engineering).
15.00-17.00 - Archives section of Central Architecture Library "Roberto Gabetti"
Architectural Archives of al Castello del Valentino
15.00-16.00 (first round) – Archivio d’Architettura del Castello del Valentino
16.00-17.00 (second round) – Archivio d’Architettura del Castello del Valentino
Speakers: Sergio Pace (Politecnico di Torino), Enrica Bodrato (Politecnico di Torino)
Visit to the Archives section of the "Roberto Gabetti" Central Architecture Library of the Turin Polytechnic, where the documentary collections of important Turin professionals are kept, including Franco Berlanda, Sergio Hutter, Eugenio and Carlo Mollino, Aldo Morbelli and Domenico Morelli.
PART II
17:30 – Salone d’Onore del Castello del Valentino – Opening Ceremony and Welcome Reception
