Lost and Found

21/10/2021, h. 9:15 – 13:00
Piattaforma Teams

Processes of abandonment of the architectural and urban heritage in inner areas: Causes, effects, and narratives (Italy, Albania, Romania)

Kick-off meeting progetto Riba 2021

The current pandemic season renovated the interest for depopulated small rural or mountain towns in inner areas, also thanks to their partial repopulation by “smart workers” during the various lockdowns. Experts in different fields have been wondering if such phenomena can solve the problem of depopulation, mainly in those areas where this phenomenon occurred mainly caused by physical and/or socio-economic risks. The kick-off meeting officially opens the Riba 2021 research Lost and Found which investigates how abandonment factors and their effects influenced the processes of construction of memory and identity over the 20th-century, to further understand how these processes can condition the contemporary perception and interaction with depopulated areas and abandoned heritage by different user groups. The results are important to assess the potentiality of repopulation and reuse of the abandoned built environment.

Relatori: Annunziata Maria Oteri, Dipartimento DAStU, Politecnico di Milano – Roberto Parisi, Università del Molise – Irina Tulbure -Moldovan, Ion Mincu University – Gjergji Islami, Politecnico di Tirana – Marco Mareggi, Dipartimento DAStU, Politecnico di Milano – Agostino Petrillo, Dipartimento DAStU, Politecnico di Milano – Sonia Pistidda, Dipartimento DAStU, Politecnico di Milano – Renato Sansa, Università della Calabria – Nino Sulfaro, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria

Responsabile: Annunziata Maria Oteri