[Bilimsel Haber] CfP: IV INTERNATIONAL FORUM "Mediterranean City" (Reggio Calabria, Italy, 27-28-29 May, 2008)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

IV INTERNATIONAL FORUM OF STUDIES "Mediterranean City",

Reggio Calabria, Italy, 27-28-29 May, 2008

Organized by:
Department of Architecture and Analysis of the Mediterranean City (DAACM)
Università Mediterranea, Reggio Calabria, Italy

Director: Concetta Fallanca
e-mail: cfallanca at unirc.it

The conferences website is: 
 <http:///> http:// <http://www.unirc.it/daacm/FORUM_08>
www.unirc.it/daacm/FORUM_08

IV INTERNATIONAL FORUM "Mediterranean City"

Sessions

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 are also 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.

 

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Alessandro Bianchi, Marisa Cagliostro, Sergio Caldaretti, Concetta Fallanca,
Francesca Fatta, Massimo Giovannini, Renato Nicolini, Claudio Roseti, Maria
Adele Teti, DAACM
Università Mediterranea Reggio Calabria
Ali Abu Ghanimeh, University of Jordan
Hanae Bekkari, Fondation Tanger Al Madina
Nuhad Abdallah, Tashreen University of Lattakia
Josep Vicent Boira i Maiques, Universidad de Valencia
Michel Sudarskis, INTA (International Urban Development Association)
Chris Younes, École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Clermont Ferrand
Najet Hedhly Boubaker, École Nationale d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme de
Tunis
Thierry Paquot, Institut d'urbanisme de Paris, directeur de la revue
Urbanisme 
Carmine Gambardella, II Università di Napoli

IMPORTANT DATES

The titles of contributions and abstracts of 1.000 keystrokes maximum (doc
or txt document format) should be forwarded by email to:
daacmforum2008 at unirc.it by March 31st, 2008. Texts will be acknowledged by
April 7th, 2008. Papers of 8.000 keystrokes (together with two illustrations
300 dpi .tiff format) should be forwarded by April 30th 2008.

All abstracts should be submitted in English, French or Italian languages.
Abstracts should include: title of paper, full name, institution of
affiliation, current position, an email address.

Full paper format, submission guidelines, registration, accommodation and
further information are available at the conference website 

 <http:///> http:// <http://www.unirc.it/daacm/FORUM_08>
www.unirc.it/daacm/FORUM_08

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