Special event / International online seminar

The second edition of the Film Festival Urban Visions included several online activities, with the engagement of artists and international scholars.

In regard of the theme “A-Place/Resilient Communities”, City Space Architecture organized an international online seminar “Empowering Resilient Communities. Knowledge transfer and capacity building”, hosted by the Italian Pavilion of the 17th Architecture International Exhibition Venice Biennale "How will we live together?", with the participation of international scholars, experts, artists, and a representative from UN-Habitat, Regional Office for Africa.

The recorded webinar is available on the Facebook page of the event.

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Empowering Resilient Communities. Knowledge transfer and capacity building

International online seminar

17th Architecture International Exhibition Venice Biennale "How will we live together?"

12 November 2021 / Italian Pavilion

AFTERNOON |  14.00 – 17.00 CET

14.00 – 14.15
Welcome address / Moderator
Luisa Bravo, City Space Architecture, Italy

(ITALIAN)
14.15 – 15.15
Italian case studies from URBACT
Simone d’Antonio, National URBACT Point for Italy - ANCI (Italian Association of Cities and Municipalities)

Other Italian case studies
Hortus Acri, presented by Pino Scaglione
Zen°Zero, presented by Flora La Sita and Vivian Celestino
La Chabrochanto, presented by Fabrizio Aimar with Lo Puy
Sub>Urban Reinventing the fringe, presented by Salvatore Napolitano and Annie Attademo

Italian case studies from the Biennial of Public Space in Rome
Pietro Garau, Italian Institute of Urban Planners (INU)

(ENGLISH)
15.15 – 15.30
European perspectives
Maurice Harteveld, TU Delft, Netherlands

15.30 – 15.45
American perspectives
Jeffrey Carney and Carla Brisotto, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER), USA

15.45 – 16.20
Resilient Communities, short film competition
Film Festival Urban Visions. Beyond the Ideal City  
promoted by City Space Architecture and A-Place
Introduction by Luisa Bravo

Art and creative perspectives
Jacek Ludwig Scarso, London Metropolitan University, CREATURE (The Centre for Creative Arts, Culture and Engagement), United Kingdom

The disappearance of places (short film), presented by Flavio Mancuso, Simeri Laboratorio Urbano

16.20 – 16.50
Mathias Spaliviero, United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
Regional Office for Africa (ROAf)

16.50 – 17.00
Final comments and remarks