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II.TED | Politecnico di Torino | Università di Torino | Università di Firenze IITED SCHOOL OF HERITAGE MANAGEMENT 4’ INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON URBANIZATION AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPE ITALY 20-30 JULY 2015

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Background This programme is the main educational activity of the IITED School of Heritage Management. The 4’ International Workshop on Urbanization and Cultural Landscape came after the past experiences of organizing international scientiﬁc collaborations between Iran, Portugal and Italy with an outstanding choice of partners and professionals. The 1’ International Workshop on Urbanization and Cultural Landscape (Turin July 4-16 2011), the International Workshop on Landscape Quality Assessments (Lisbon September 3-11 2012), the 2’ International Workshop on Urbanization and Cultural Landscape (Turin July), the 3’ International Workshop on Urbanization and Cultural Landscape (Florence, Venice and Turin July 20-30 2014) and the Capacity Building Workshop on the Management Planning for World Heritage Sites in Iran (Tehran 25 April-03 May 2015).

Since 2011 we worked with a number of international organizationas, governmental and non-governmental organizations, network of partners and stakeholders, such as:

• The UNESCO Tehran Cluster Ofﬁce • UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe • The Iranian Cultural Heritage Tourism and Handicraft Organization [ir] • Università di Torino [it] • University of Tehran / Kish International Campus [ir] • Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning - Politecnico di Torino [it] • Department of Architecture - Università di Firenze [it] • CSL Communication Strategies Lab - Università di Firenze [it] • e-GEO Universidade NOVA de Lisboa [pt] • UNESCO Chair on New paradigms and instruments for the management of Cultural Landscape, SiTI-Higher Institute on Territorial Systems for Innovation [it] • UNESCO Category II Research and Training Centre on cultural economics and World Heritage studies, CSS-EBLA Centro Studi Silvia Santagata [it] • Environment Research and Design Consultant [ir] • Red Internacional de Pensamiento Crítico sobre Globalización y Patrimonio Construido RIGPAC [co] • Fondazione per la Cultura Genova Palazzo Ducale [it] • Fondazione Adriano Olivetti [it] • IED Istituto Europeo di Design [it] • Ente Turismo Alba-Bra-Langhe-Roero [it] • A2 studio srl [it] • Aracne editrice [it] • Esempi di Architettura edA [it]

© 2015 International Institute on Territorial and Environmental Dynamics II.TED | Politecnico di Torino | Università di Torino | Università di Firenze IITED SCHOOL OF HERITAGE MANAGEMENT 4’ INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON URBANIZATION AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPE ITALY 20-30 JULY 2015

! Presentation The 4’ International Workshop on Urbanization and Cultural Landscape is a unique scientiﬁc programme of its kind, and it was the third edition of the IITED School in Heritage Management international activity. This programme was developed in collaboration with:

• UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe

• Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning-Politecnico di Torino [it]

• Università di Torino [it]

• Department of Architecture-Università di Firenze [it]

• CSL Communication Strategies Lab-Università di Firenze [it]

• CSS-EBLA Centro Study Silvia Santagata [it]

Framework This training programme aimed at the management of heritage sites with a socio-cultural anchorage, and dealt with topics such as Heritage Cities and Historic Urban Landscape and Urbanization and Cultural Landscape. This programme brought together not only theoretical concepts, but also converted each participant into a traveller who could gain different experiences from different countries.

This Programme was a segmented and practical higher international study programme aimed towards students and professionals graduated in the ﬁelds of spatial planning, urban design, landscape and heritage management, also environmental design, geography and territorial sciences. This programme covered 2 complex environments, presented in phases as follow:

• Heritage Cities, Urbanization, Social Housing and New Technologies for Cultural Heritage (Florence, 20-22 July 2015)

• Venice and Its Lagoon World Heritage Site (Venice, 24-25 July 2015)

• Mapping Heritage, Territorial Values and Cultural Landscape in Europe (Turin, 27-30 July 2015)

Methodology and Activities The methodology of the IITED School of Heritage Management is based on a multiple activity model including theoretical, practical, case studies and site visits, working group and classroom discussions. Participants needed to be active and involved during all these activities. At the end of the programme all participants had to develop a ﬁnal work inline with the workshop thematics and submit it in order to obtain their certiﬁcates.

! Venue CSL Communication Strategies Lab, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Università degli Studi di Firenze. Via Laura 48 (50100 Firenze), Italy

UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, UNESCO Ofﬁce in Venice, Palazzo Zorzi, Castello 4930 (30122 Venice), Italy

DIST The Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, Polytechnic of Turin, Castello del Valentino, Viale Pier Andrea Mattioli, 39 (10125 Torino), Italy

programme

Arrival - Travel to Florence

Welcoming addresses by Hassan Laghai (University of Tehran). Via Laura 48 - 1º ﬂoor

Gabriele Corsani and Paola Ricco (DIDA-UNIFI), Urbanization and political-cultural interactions: 20/07 Florentine Social Housing neighborhoods of Isolotto and Sorgane in the 20th Century (1950-1960).

George Tatge, Photographing the modern architecture: theory and practice

21/07 Study visit: Sorgane with George Tatge, Gabriele Corsani and Paola Ricco

Gianluca Simonetta (CSL-DSPS-UNIFI), Augmented Reality and social-networking strategies for 22/07 Cultural Heritage, the generative paradigm. Via Laura 48 - 1º ﬂoor

23/07 Travel to Venice

Venice and its lagoon World Heritage Site + Venice to Expo 2015, The ZERO HUNGER CHALLENGE: United for a Sustainable World, UNESCO Ofﬁce in Venice, Zorzi Palace - Castle Mandatory 24/07 4930

Visit: IED Istituto Europeo di Design, Franchetti Palace, Campo Santo Stefano

25/07 Free visit in Venice

26/07 Travel to Turin

Alessio Re (CSS-Ebla/UNITO), Tools and techniques for mapping heritage and territorial values. 27/07 Management planning and management policies in heritage sites. Evaluation methods for supporting territorial decision making, Valentino castle, Viale Pier Andrea Mattioli n. 39

Roberto Gambino and Angioletta Voghera (DIST-POLITO), European Landscape Convention and Landscape designing, planning and evaluation in Europe (methods and approaches), Valentino 28/07 castle, Viale Pier Andrea Mattioli n. 39

Study visit: Turin new urban development, University of Turin campus

29/07 Study visit: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato World Heritage Site

30/07 Closing ceremony in Asti

31/07 Travel to Milan

! 01/08 Visit EXPO Milan 2015

02/08 Visit EXPO Milan 2015 Optional 03/08 Travel to Rome

04/08 Visit Rome

05/08 Departure

Faculty

Alessio Re CSS-Ebla Centro Studi Silvia Santagata/University of Turin

The Interuniversity Department of Regional And Urban Studies and Planning Angioletta Voghera (DIST-Polytechnic of Turin)

Gabriele Corsani Department of Architecture (DIDA-University of Florence)

Communication Strategic Lab-Department of Political and Social Sciences Gianluca Simonetta (CSL-DSPS-University of Florence)

George Tatge Photographer

Paola Ricco Department of Architecture (DIDA-University of Florence)

The Interuniversity Department of Regional And Urban Studies and Planning Roberto Gambino (DIST-Polytechnic of Turin)

Scientiﬁc Committee

The Interuniversity Department of Regional And Urban Studies and Planning Angioletta Voghera (DIST-Polytechnic of Turin)

Gabriele Corsani Department of Architecture (DIDA)-University of Florence

Hassan A. Laghai University of Tehran-Kish International Campus

Jukka Jokilehto University of Nova Gorica, ICCROM

Communication Strategic Lab-Department of Political and Social Sciences Luca Toschi (CSL-DSPS)-University of Florence

! Participants The workshop saw the involvement of 28 participants, with different backgrounds in architecture, urban design and planning, landscape architecture and environmental design.

Ms. Shima Yazdanmehr Mr. Amirhossein Mirhosseini Mr. Barzin Geravandi

Ms. Alaleh Rahimi Ms. Mandana Bazaz Alavi Mr. Milad Vatani

Ms. Atena Meydani Ms. Morvarid Bostanban Ms. Shima Aliporyani

Ms. Katauon Jahangard Ms. Shahrzad Behnamnia Ms. Ameneh Salemi Khouzani

Ms. Elnaz Mirzaei Ms. Hanieh Ebrahimbanki Mr. Bahman Golchin

Ms. Nasim Mousavi Ms. Zahra Chehreghan Ms. Shabnam Shivaee

Ms. Bahar Khabazi hosseini Ms. Zeinab Chehreghan Mr. Mohammadreza Nemitanasab

Ms. Mahshid Arbabzadeh Ms. Shiva Ghorbani Saravani Ms. Sevda Tarrahi

Mr. Mehdi Tabaeiannejad Ms. Hoda Hashemi Ms. Najmeh Alipouryani

Mr. Shahrooz Masoumi

Conclusion In line with the aims, principles and guidelines proposed by main international documents, charts and recommendations such as the European Landscape Convention, The World Heritage Convention, Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape, World Heritage Sustainable Tourism Policy and Strategy Development and Small Island Developing States Programme;

On the basis of the cooperation experience between different countries and international institutions and, more in speciﬁc, all the subjects that took part to the realisation of the workshop;

We convene and conﬁrm the importance of afﬁrming and working on the following sectors:

Invest in Education and Training for younger generations, especially to promote and to sustain the capacity building and to increase the public awareness on the maintenance and use of landscape, urban and heritage values; Produce operative and pilot projects towards sustainable development, including environmental, social, economic and cultural components, with the aim to generate positive outcomes on the local contexts and community;

Work towards internationalisation and the involvement of institutional partnerships to facilitate and create occasions to share and exchange best practices developed in different cultural and geographical contexts.

! Acknowledgment

We strongly thank the partnership and support of: UNESCO Ofﬁce in Venice, Department of Architecture DIDA, Communication Strategic Lab CSL, University of Florence, DIST Polytechnic of Turin, University of Turin, CSS-EBLA, IED Istituto Europeo di Design, Ente Turismo Alba-Bra-Langhe-Roero, A2studio srl, and all those who took part at the discussions and visits during the workshop sessions.

Teaching team short biography Alessio Re, architect, PhD in Restoration and conservation of architectural heritage and landscape (2005), MA in Cultural projects for development (2008), Specialization School inArchitectural heritage and landscape(2008), is currently tutor of the international master World Heritage at work and coordinator of the master World Natural Heritage Management. He has a number of participations in conferences, researches and scientiﬁc publications on the topic of conservation and management of cultural heritage. He works with SiTI on projects relating to the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Angioletta Voghera, architect, she is an associate professor in Urban and Regional Planning at Politecnico di Torino-DIST where she runs a research on urban and landscape planning and local development. She is also member of the council of Architects of the province of Torino.

Gabriele Corsani, is the coordinator of the PhD programme in Urban, landscape and territorial planning and design and in the University of Florence (DUPT). He also teaches the Urban Planning and history of modern urbanism at the same department. He is a member of the editorial staff of "Contesti", journal of DUPT. He is a member of the Board of writing of the History of the Urbanism of the Association of City History (ASC), additionally he is also a member of the Advisory Board of "Medicine and History- Journal of the history of medicine and health" (Florence).

George Tatge, studied English Literature at Beloit College in Wisconsin, where he also began photographing under the guidance of the Hungarian photographer Michael Simon. From 1986 to 2003 he was Director of Photography at the Alinari Archives in Florence. He has held workshops and exhibitions throughout the world and his photographs can be found in major museum collections in the U.S. and in Europe, such as the Metropolitan Museum of New York, the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Centre Canadien d’Architecture in Montreal, the Helmut Gernsheim Collection in Mannheim, and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. His work has been exhibited at the American Academy in Rome (solo) in 1981, at the MASP of Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1988 (solo), at the Venice Biennale in 1995, at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice in 2005, at the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim in 2003, at the GEH in Rochester in 2004 and at Rome’s MAXXI in 2007. In 2010 he was awarded the Friuli Venezia Giulia Prize for Photography.

Gianluca Simonette, PhD in territorial communication, he is a research fellow at the Communication Strategies Lab (CSL) of the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Florence. Within the CSL research group he works on digital writing, knowledge management, studying and analyzing new media and new languages. He also is a writer, content author and designer of interfaces and multimedia objects for education and enterprise environments.

! Hassanali Laghai, is the head of the department of Urban Planning at Kish International Campus of the University of Tehran and an associated professor in Urban Planning and Design in the University of Tehran. He is also the head of the department of the Environmental Design in Azad University and a member of the Architect’s Excellency Association of Iran. He was an executive member of the National Sustainable Development Committee between 2004 and 2007. He studied Architecture in Florence and Urban planning technics in the Polytechnic of Milan.

Paola Ricco, studied architecture at the University of Florence where she graduated and obtained her PhD in History of Architecture and Town Planning. She works as an independent architectural historian, researching, teaching, lecturing and writing. She is currently an adjunct professor of History of Contemporary Architecture at the Department of Architecture, University of Florence. She curates the Architecture Player, a web platform devoted to short ﬁlms produced by architects.

Roberto Gambino, is a full professor in urban, regional and environmental planning at the Politecnico di Torino (Italy) Founder and director of the European Documentation Centre on Nature Park Planning (Member of IUCN). Coordinator of many researches on nature conservation, protected areas, landscape and urban studies. Coordinator of many urban, landscape and park planning studies (Gran Paradiso, Monti Sibillini, Cilento e Vallo di Diano, Vesuvio National Parks, Po River, Colli Euganei, Alpi Apuane, Beigua Regional Parks). Author of many publications particularly in the ﬁeld of natural and cultural conservation.

International Institute on Territorial and Environmental Dynamics

Florence, 2015

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