The Landscape of the Caves

THE INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF LANDSCAPES 2.0

THE LANDSCAPE OF THE CAVES

THE ROCK CUT CITIES TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE FOR THE PROPER MANAGEMENT OF ECOSYSTEMS A GLOBAL ASSESSMENT ON THE OCCASION OF THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MATERA INSCRIPTION IN THE WORLD HERITAGE LIST

MATERA, ITALY 21-22-23 NOVEMBER 2013

DRAFT AGENDA

21 NOVEMBER THURSDAY

MEETING PRESENTATION

Marta Ragozzino, Superintendent for Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage of Basilicata Paolo Verri, Director Matera 2019 Pietro Laureano, President International Traditional Knowledge Institute (ITKI)

WELCOME ADDRESSES x Salvatore Adduce, Matera Mayor x Italian Ministry of Culture (to confirme) x Basilicata Region x Giovanni Puglisi, (to confirm) President, Italian UNESCO National Commission x Maurizio Di Stefano, President, ICOMOS Italy x Attilio Maurano Director for Cultural Heritage and Landscape Region Basilicata x Mauro Fiorentino Rector of University of Basilicata

INTRODUCTION CHAIRPERSON: COLONEL MICHAEL R CARRINGTON, DIRECTOR GENERAL THE MARIA NOBREGA FOUNDATION

Francesco Bandarin, Director General for Culture of UNESCO

Mike Turner, Distinguished Representative of UNESCO Director

4. KEYNOTE SPEECH:

MATERA, SIGNIFICANCE AND EVOLUTION OF POLICIES IN THE WORLD HERITAGE CONTEXT JUKKA JOKILEHTO, ICOMOS EVALUATOR OF MATERA INSCRIPTION 1993

THE MINING OF UNESCO CONVENTION IN THE CONTEXT OF ALGERIA HERITAGE MOURAD BOUTEFLICA, DIRECTOR OF MINISTRY OF CULTURE ALGERIA

5. KEYNOTE PANEL DISCUSSION: THE MUNICIPALITIES FOR THE LANDSCAPE Chairperson: Alberto Giordano, Deputy Mayor of Matera x Stefano Pisani, Mayor of Pollica x Alesio Valente, Mayor of Gravina In Puglia x Luciano Bartolini, Mayor of Bagno a Ripoli, ITKI founding member x Domenico Di Nunzio, Deputy Mayor on Tourism, Molise Region x Sylvia Gahlin, Chargé de Mission Municipalité de Nice, France x Pierluigi Petrillo, Professor of Comparative Law Universita di Roma x Ina Macaione, Matera City Council Member Conclusion: Laura Marchetti, Past Deputy Italian Minister of Environment

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6. Keynote speech: THE FUTURE AS HOME FOR THE PAST: MAN-MADE LANDSCAPES AND THE CONQUEST OF NATURE ACCORDING TO THE PARADIGM OF UNCONDITIONED RESILIENCE Maurizio Tosi Professor of paleontology University of Bologna

THE INNOVATIVE STRENGTH OF THE TRADITION: THE TROGLODYTIC LANDSCAPE FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE Pietro Laureano President of ITKI

7. KEYNOTE PANEL DISCUSSION: PERCEIVED LANDSCAPE/ BUILT LANDSCAPE: AN OPERATIONAL INTERACTION

Chairpersons Gisella Capponi, Monica Luengo Introduction: Monica Luengo, President ICOMOS Committee

Andreas Angelakis, Water Resources Research at the National Agricultural Research Foundation (N.AG.RE.F.), Institute of Iraklion, Greece Amerigo Restucci, Rector of University of Venice Giorgio Croci, Professor of Structural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, La Sapienza University of Rome Conclusion: Gisella Capponi, Director of the Institute for Conservation and Restoration (Italy)

8. THE EUROPEAN DIMENSION: SYMBOLISM AND ACTUALITY OF THE LANDSCAPE OF THE CAVES AND OF THE ROCK CUT CITIES

KEYNOTE SPEECH:

The caves: sacred spaces and symbolic meanings between the Upper Paleolithic and Eneolithic in southern Italy Donato Coppola, Professor of Palaeontology, Prehistory and pre-classic Civilizations ± Università di Bari.

x Bulgaria. Country that with Italy designates the Culture European Capital 2019 From Vodna Cave to Ivanovo Rock-hewn Churches: seven thousand years of wisdom and spirituality engraved in the stone Nicolay Nenov Director of the Rousse Regional Museum of History x Greece.The Rock cut labyrinth and water systems of Creta Andreas Angelakis x Spain.The rock cut city of Boicarent and the Andalusian agriculture Miguele Del Rey, Valencia University x United Kingdom. Megalithic Landscape Kathrine Moore, IFLA Task Force x Italy Giovanni De Feo Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno Underground hydro-technologies in Campania felix Italy Simone Mantellini Surviving without water: underground cisterns at Pantelleria Island between change and continuity

9. ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES IN PROTECTING WORLD ROCK CUT CITIES LANDSCAPES o Libya: Rock Art, Troglodytes and Garamantes, Claudio Bencini Wadi Adrar Fondation o Chile: Jose Guerra Ramirez Director of Architecture at Catholic University School North o Jordan: The Great Petra management and challenges Claudio Margottini UNESCO o Algeria : Ansari Tahar, Directeur Agense Nationale des ressources hydraulique (ANRH) o Tunisia: The Cave Dwellings of Matmata and the city Sfax Ahmed Chabchoueb University of Tunis o Israel: The Park of the Caves o Algeria: Ali Benatiallah Dean of Faculty of Science and Technology University of Adrar o India: Caves and its water system in Bombay and Kanery Anuradha Mathur, Penn University

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10. NEW PERSPECTIVES AND INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES FROM SILEX TO SILICON: BEST PRACTICES, TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, COMMONS, INDIGENOUS VISION FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE

Keynote speech LALI ( Latin American Landscape Initiative) the way forward a landscape synergy network in

America Latina Martha C. Fajardo, Former President of IFLA, Colombia

x Diane Archibald, Vancouver, The Multicultural Landscape (Canada) x Gonzalo Oviedo, IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature Traditional knowledge to protect nature and the landscape x Yohei Kiyonaga, ICCROM, Japan Conservation and Restoration through Traditional Technique and Material x Abdelkrim Benhassane ± (ITKI expert) The Amguid Oasis restauration saharan people success story x Donatella Murtas, The Internetional Terraced Alliance x Jonathan B. Mabry Water, Canal and Community, Tucson City Council x Rosa Bernardo, The food of the caves: the passion of the wheat, Agrisystem x Massimiliano Burgi, The Matera cisterns and terraced stone walls restauration x Marconi Foundation: the Italian genius x Stambecco Pesco, Federation of communities Damanhur - Piemonte, Italy. The underground temples of Valchiusella

11. THE NEW PARADIGMS x Emmanuele Curti, Professor of Classical Archaeology, Università degli Studi della Basilicata x Parviz Koohafkan, President,World Agricultural Heritage Foundation x Maria Valeria Mininni, University of Bari x Mauro Agnoletti, Associate Professor at the Department for the Management of Agricultural; Food and Forestry Systems (GESAAF) of the University of Florence x Angela Colonna, University of Basilicata x Cristina Papa, University of Perugia

12. THE WAY FORWARD: THE MATERA ROCK CUT CITIES DECLARATION

x NATIONAL AUTHORITIES x INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITIES

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