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<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>CALL FOR PAPERS</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>IV INTERNATIONAL FORUM OF STUDIES "Mediterranean
City",</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Reggio Calabria, Italy, 27-28-29 May,
2008</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Organized by:<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>Department of Architecture and Analysis of the Mediterranean City
(DAACM)<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Università Mediterranea, Reggio
Calabria, Italy<BR><BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Director: Concetta
Fallanca<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>e-mail:
cfallanca@unirc.it</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The conferences website is: <BR></FONT><A
href="http:///"><U><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>http://</FONT></U></FONT></A><A
href="http://www.unirc.it/daacm/FORUM_08"><U><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
face=Garamond size=4>www.unirc.it/daacm/FORUM_08</FONT></U></FONT></A></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>IV INTERNATIONAL FORUM "Mediterranean
City"</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Sessions</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The city and the water</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The recent re-discovery of urban waterways is
distinguishing the development of those<SPAN class=985184403-12032008>
</SPAN>cities which have a connection with water: Although great seas and oceans
are often<SPAN class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN>talked about, sometimes the mere
presence of a watercourse is enough to trigger vital<SPAN
class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN>transformation processes in a city.<SPAN
class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN>Water is more and more often the protagonist in
urban matters, whether coexisting as a<SPAN class=985184403-12032008>
</SPAN>centuries old, familiar element or whether denied over long periods of
time. Urban<SPAN class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN>waterfronts are therefore not
only an image of and an entrance to a city but are also<SPAN
class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN>areas of intense vitality, naturally fitted to
relationships and trade and to the contra-flow<SPAN class=985184403-12032008>
</SPAN>in the currents through the urban network; outwards, towards overseas and
inwards<SPAN class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN>towards the city centre. The
common denominator in this urban transformation process<SPAN
class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN>is the attention being given to the water
courses which are becoming the axes of<SPAN class=985184403-12032008>
</SPAN>reconfigured urban space.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The first part therefore deals with theoretical
proposals and with the dossiers of finalised<SPAN class=985184403-12032008>
</SPAN>projects aimed at re-inventing the relationship between a city and its
waterways and to<SPAN class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN>the creation of new urban
architecture.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond><FONT size=4></FONT></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond><FONT size=4>The historical city as dwelling place<SPAN
class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><SPAN class=985184403-12032008></SPAN><FONT face=Garamond>The second part is
open to thoughts on the future of an historical city as a dwelling place<FONT
size=4><SPAN class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN>and covers all aspects of
day-to-day city life. Once the attitudes which consider a<SPAN
class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN>historical city to be self-sufficient, or those
which see it as a "management centre", with<SPAN class=985184403-12032008>
</SPAN>tertiary or commercial functions and luxury-orientated residential areas,
are overcome it<SPAN class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN>is clear that new
interpretations will be needed which can visualise it as a lively nucleus,<SPAN
class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>contributing actively to the development of the city as a
whole.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Reflections on the theme of this second part
regard the experience and proposals able to<SPAN class=985184403-12032008>
</SPAN>recuperate the sense of a renewable, strengthened, mobile identity of a
historical city so<SPAN class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN>that it can reflect in
its own urban shape, the manners and customs of those who live<SPAN
class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN>there</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The plural city as a synthesis of
civilisation</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>This third part pays particular attention to
theoretical considerations and to the planning<SPAN class=985184403-12032008>
</SPAN>experience able to reflect the identity and linguistic complexity in the
urban areas typical<SPAN class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN>of a plural
city.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The theme offers an opportunity to reflect on how
a project can anticipate a city's<SPAN class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN>renewed
wishes, blending the culture and the habits of the inhabitants and on how
both<SPAN class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN>citizens and migrant communities
would wish the urban area to be. A new urban quality<SPAN
class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN>might spring from the synthesis of multiple
citizenship using as a starting point the basic<SPAN class=985184403-12032008>
</SPAN>areas of the existing city and the fruitful integration of the these
places into the broader<SPAN class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN>significance of a
multicultural society.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The principal scope is to favour confrontation,
knowledge and communication among<SPAN class=985184403-12032008>
</SPAN>different experiences and visions of architecture; to search for concrete
planning ideas for<SPAN class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN>a city able to absorb
the various shapes of different dwelling cultures and make them<SPAN
class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN>flow together into a richer and more complex
expression of a lively Mediterranean<SPAN class=985184403-12032008>
</SPAN>civilisation, open to all peoples.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Alessandro Bianchi, Marisa Cagliostro, Sergio
Caldaretti, Concetta Fallanca, Francesca<SPAN class=985184403-12032008>
</SPAN>Fatta, Massimo Giovannini, Renato Nicolini, Claudio Roseti, Maria Adele
Teti, DAACM<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Università Mediterranea Reggio
Calabria<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Ali Abu Ghanimeh, University of
Jordan<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Hanae Bekkari, Fondation Tanger Al
Madina<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Nuhad Abdallah, Tashreen University
of Lattakia<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Josep Vicent Boira i Maiques,
Universidad de Valencia<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Michel Sudarskis,
INTA (International Urban Development Association)<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>Chris Younes, École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Clermont
Ferrand<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Najet Hedhly Boubaker, École
Nationale d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme de Tunis<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>Thierry Paquot, Institut d'urbanisme de Paris, directeur de la revue
Urbanisme <BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond><FONT size=4><FONT>Carmine<SPAN
class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN></FONT>Gambardella, II Università di
Napoli</FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>IMPORTANT DATES</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The titles of contributions and abstracts of 1.000
keystrokes maximum (doc or txt<SPAN class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN>document
format) should be forwarded by email to: daacmforum2008@unirc.it by March<SPAN
class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN>31st, 2008.<SPAN class=985184403-12032008>
</SPAN>Texts will be acknowledged by April 7th, 2008.<SPAN
class=985184403-12032008> </SPAN>Papers of 8.000 keystrokes (together with
two illustrations 300 dpi .tiff format) should be<SPAN class=985184403-12032008>
</SPAN>forwarded by April 30th 2008.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>All abstracts should be submitted in English,
French or Italian languages. Abstracts<SPAN class=985184403-12032008>
</SPAN>should include: title of paper, full name, institution of affiliation,
current position, an email<SPAN class=985184403-12032008>
</SPAN>address.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Full paper format, submission guidelines,
registration, accommodation and further<SPAN class=985184403-12032008>
</SPAN>information are available at the conference website </FONT></P>
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