7) IV INTERNATIONAL FORUM OF STUDIES “Mediterranean City”, Reggio Calabria, 27-28-29 May, 2008
Organized Department of Architecture and Analysis of the Mediterranean City (DAACM) Università Mediterranea, Reggio Calabria, Italy
The city and the water The recent re-discovery of urban waterways is distinguishing the development of those cities which have a connection with water: Although great seas and oceans are often talked about, sometimes the mere presence of a watercourse is enough to trigger vital transformation processes in a city.
Water is more and more often the protagonist in urban matters, whether coexisting as a centuries old, familiar element or whether denied over long periods of time. Urban waterfronts are therefore not only an image of and an entrance to a city but arealso areas of intense vitality, naturally fitted to relationships and trade and to the contra-flow in the currents through the urban network; outwards, towards overseas and inwards towards the city centre.
The common denominator in this urban transformation process is the attention being given to the water courses which are becoming the axes of reconfigured urban space.
The first part therefore deals with theoretical proposals and with the dossiers of finalised
projects aimed at re-inventing the relationship between a city and its waterways and to
the creation of new urban architecture.
The historical city as dwelling place
The second part is open to thoughts on the future of an historical city as a dwelling place
and covers all aspects of day-to-day city life.
Once the attitudes which consider a
historical city to be self-sufficient, or those which see it as a “management centre”, with
tertiary or commercial functions and luxury-orientated residential areas, are overcome it
is clear that new interpretations will be needed which can visualise it as a lively nucleus,
contributing actively to the development of the city as a whole.
Reflections on the theme of this second part regard the experience and proposals able to
recuperate the sense of a renewable, strengthened, mobile identity of a historical city so
that it can reflect in its own urban shape, the manners and customs of those who live
there.
The plural city as a synthesis of civilisation
This third part pays particular attention to theoretical considerations and to the planning
experience able to reflect the identity and linguistic complexity in the urban areas typical
of a plural city.
The theme offers an opportunity to reflect on how a project can anticipate a city’s
renewed wishes, blending the culture and the habits of the inhabitants and on how both
citizens and migrant communities would wish the urban area to be.
A new urban quality
might spring from the synthesis of multiple citizenship using as a starting point the basic
areas of the existing city and the fruitful integration of the these places into the broader
significance of a multicultural society.
The principal scope is to favour confrontation, knowledge and communication among
different experiences and visions of architecture; to search for concrete planning ideas for
a city able to absorb the various shapes of different dwelling cultures and make them
flow together into a richer and more complex expression of a lively Mediterranean
civilisation, open to all peoples.
Director: Concetta Fallanca
e-mail: cfallanca@unirc.it
The conferences website is: www.unirc.it/daacm/FORUM_08
8) STEC Genova Aprile 2008 - 12a Giornata diArcheometria della Ceramica
La Ceramica e il Mare: Il contributo dell’archeometria allo studio della circolazione dei prodotti ceramici nel Mediterraneo.
Genova 10-11 Aprile 2008 Auditorium dei Musei di Strada Nuova Via Garibaldi 18
9) The 17th International Bronze Congress Athens, Greece, May 24-28, 2009 Athens, Greece, May 24-28, 2009
The 17th International Bronze Congress will be held in Athens from May 24 to 28, 2009. “Bronzes: New Finds, New Approaches” will be sponsored by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean of Columbia University, and the University of Athens.
Schedule: The Congress will consist of an introductory evening on May 24 followed by four days of papers ending on May 28. From May 29 to June 1, there will be a three-day optional trip to Delphi, Olympia, and other sites associated with the production and display of ancient bronzes.
Call for papers and preliminary registration: The call for papers and preliminary registration information will be issued in April 2008. Abstracts must be received by September 2008. Presentations are expected to cover a broad range of topics in the fields of archaeology, ancient technology, history of art, and conservation, within the broad theme of “New Finds, New Approaches.”
All participants must adhere to the 1973 UNESCO agreement.
Conference language: Because we expect participants to come from 20 or more countries, the conference language will be English.
Publication: The abstracts will be published on the web soon after the Congress, followed by a print publication of the papers.
10) Radiocarbon and Archaeology 5th International Symposium
26-28th March 2008, Zurich, Switzerland
Nearly 60 years after the publication of the first radiocarbon ages, the radiocarbon dating method has become the key dating tool in archaeology.
Recent years have brought new developments in radiocarbon dating, which are of great interest to archaeologists. Moreover, the growing number of archaeological excavations and the new research into landscape change has resulted in a significant increase of measured radiocarbon ages.
This dynamic development requires a much closer communication and collaboration between radiocarbon and archaeology communities. In an exchange of knowledge the new techniques and tools available in radiocarbon dating can be introduced to the archaeologists and the problematic behind archaeological chronologies can be illustrated for the radiocarbon community.
The series of ‘14C and archaeology’ conferences support communication between the two communities and focuses on questions that are of common interest. The previous four conferences, including the last two in Lyon (1998) and Oxford (2002), have established a tradition of such interdisciplinary discussions.
The conference will focus on the new developments and problems associated with radiocarbon methods as well as their application in archaeological studies.
More informations http://www.c14archaeology.ethz.ch/
11) Restaurare i restauri - Metodi Compabilità Cantieri -
XXIV
convegno internazionale "Scienza e beni culturali"
24 - 27 giugno 2008, Bressanone, Casa della Gioventù - Sede estiva dell’Università di Padova, via Rio Bianco 6
L’incontro di quest’anno si propone di affrontare il tema complesso, pervasivo e sempre più attuale degli interventi che, spesso, a distanza di pochi decenni, è necessario compiere su manufatti sottoposti a precedenti interventi di restauro.
L’esigenza di organizzare un convegno dedicato a questi temi nasce dalla constatazione dell’esito spesso infausto di molti restauri eseguiti soprattutto -ma non solo a partire dagli anni ’50-’60, periodo in cui l’abbandono delle pratiche operative tradizionali e consolidate nonché l’introduzione di prodotti e tecnologie talvolta inadeguate spesso per nulla documentate sia nella fase di progetto sia nei documenti di cantiere, ha introdotto significativi elementi d’incertezza circa i comportamenti nel tempo dei
sistemi edificati.
Vi è dunque l’urgenza, anche sulla traccia degli obiettivi di un precedente convegno dedicato alla “Prova del tempo”, di una riflessione e puntuale verifica della riuscita, della inefficacia o, in alcuni casi, persino danno procurato dalle soluzioni adottate nei precedenti interventi.
In particolare i temi di maggiore interesse riguardano:
METODI:
• Aspetti teoretici ed evoluzione del dibattito
• Reinterpretazione dei vecchi interventi
COMPATIBILITA’
• Conoscenza delle pratiche esecutive storiche e modalità
degli interventi in ragione dei livelli di compatibilità dei materiali
• Sviluppo di specifiche metodiche diagnostiche sui materiali impiegati nei precedenti restauri
• Studi sul comportamento dei materiali e delle tecniche di intervento
• Livelli e qualità della compatibilità
CANTIERI
• Documentazione del cantiere in vista di un futuro intervento di restauro
• Esperienze di interventi significativi
• Specifiche tecniche di rimozione di materiali inseriti in precedenti restauri
• Sostenibilità del de-restauro
• Reversibilità dei materiali e delle tecniche
• Materiali, procedure e tecniche
• Il progetto d’intervento
• Sperimentazioni
• Manutenzione
Entro il 31 GENNAIO 2008
I partecipanti che intendono presentare una comunicazione sono pregati di inviare un riassunto significativo del lavoro, (circa 20 righe dattiloscritte) comprendente: titolo, autori, ente di appartenenza, e indirizzo alla Segreteria del Convegno Arcadia Ricerche preferibilmente via E-mail convegno@arcadiaricerche.eu
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