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Materia in(- )forme. Processi di risemantizzazione della materia nelle strategie di recupero dei luoghi dell’abbandono.
No full textFrom the perspective of ecological transition, this research takes the abandonment of the built environment - in its matter and forms - as the intersection of the issues at the core of urban and land management today. Adapting design to the new policies of sustainability requires approaches capable of revolutionising the linear system of constructing and/or maintaining buildings and cities, turning it into a social system driven by a shared ethic.
In this research, the repopulation of residual territories with the affirmation of their landscape vocation, the revitalisation of decaying cities, the adoption of raw materials as symbols of identity and the formation of thriving communities, outline the scenario of cultural and technological innovation for the revitalisation of marginalised communities.
The sense of community (“as unity”) that characterises the small villages, which are still alienated from the rhythms and lifestyles of the metropolis, is the most precious capacity of the hinterland, which can form the base for new development models capable of counteracting the resistance to the overcoming of our dissipative behaviour.
The aim of the research is to construct a critical method of knowledge aimed at identifying, describing and measuring the forms of abandonment in the territorial-urban systems of Northern Sardinia, in order to build a multi-scalar and multi-dimensional assessment model for strategic planning and integrated design of the possible paths of revitalisation of Buddusò (SS), one of the 92 municipalities of the Province of Sassari.
By integrating environmental (harmony and ecosystem justice), social (housing affordability and urban liveability), economic (prosperity and fast-growing) and cultural (equity and awareness) criteria, this tool acts as a negotiating interface between the ambitions of growth and the constraints of degrowth, in the meshes of which the question of sustainability appears to be harnessed and therefore, abandoned itself.Nella prospettiva della transizione ecologica, questa ricerca assume l’abbandono del costruito – nella sua materia e nelle sue forme – come tema d’intersezione delle problematiche oggi poste al centro della gestione della città e del territorio. L’adattamento della progettazione alle nuove policy per la sostenibilità necessita di approcci capaci di rivoluzionare il sistema lineare di costruzione e/o mantenimento di edifici e città in un sistema sociale alimentato da un’etica condivisa.
Il ripopolamento dei territori residuali con l’affermazione delle loro vocazioni paesaggistiche, il recupero delle città in declino, l’assunzione della materia prima come simbolo identitario e la formazione di comunità fiorenti delineano, in questa ricerca, lo scenario dell’innovazione culturale e tecnologica per la rivitalizzazione dei comuni marginalizzati.
Il senso di com(e)unità che caratterizza i piccoli borghi ancora estranei ai ritmi e agli stili di vita metropolitani, è la più preziosa Capacità delle aree interne su cui improntare modelli di sviluppo capaci di allentare le Resistenze al superamento dei nostri comportamenti dissipativi.
Obiettivo della ricerca è la costruzione di un metodo di conoscenza critica rivolto alla identificazione, descrizione e misurazione delle forme di abbandono nei sistemi territoriali-urbani della Sardegna Settentrionale per la costruzione di un modello di valutazione multiscalare e multidimensionale per la programmazione strategica e la progettazione integrata dei possibili percorsi di rivitalizzazione di uno dei 92 comuni della provincia di Sassari, il Comune di Buddusò (SS).
Nell’integrazione tra criteri ambientali (armonia e ecosistemica) e sociali (housing affordability and urban liveability) e tra criteri economici (prosperity and fast-growing) e culturali (equity, justice and awareness) questo strumento si pone come interfaccia negoziale tra le ambizioni della crescita e i vincoli della decrescita, nelle cui maglie la questione della sostenibilità appare imbrigliata e per questo anch’essa abbandonata
The Realms of Abandonment: Measures and Interpretations of Landscape Value/Risk in Northern Sardinia (Italy)
Full text linkThis contribution is part of the context of studies on the prospects of eco-oriented territorial rebalancing involving the settlement networks of inland areas. These are characterised by the contrast between socio-territorial disadvantage issues and opportunities to reuse physical resources within the broader framework of territorial regeneration and the revitalisation of local identities. In Italy, the region of Sardinia represents one of the most suitable operational contexts for the study of this relationship due to the presence of a natural context that dominates the urbanised areas and a
deep, and in some ways still intact, cultural identity. Between nature and culture lies the issue of urban settlement structures, which are progressively being emptied due to depopulation and abandonment, and which require responses to revitalise territories integrated with the now inescapable ecological–environmental needs. This study proposes the formation of an initial platform of indicators to describe the effects of land abandonment through a multidimensional approach to highlight the potentials and weaknesses of the natural, urban, and socio-cultural heritage. The scale of observation and comparison concerns urban centres and small towns in the province of Sassari in the Region of Sardinia (Italy). The creation of an integrated set of maps highlighting deficiencies, vocations, and
unexpressed potentials are the first results of the observation methodology adopted; these residual potentials can be used to design possible redevelopment and regeneration strategies based on the specific vocations of territories and urban settlements
Adaptation and Enhancement of Small Historic Centres: A Multidimensional Mapping Model
No full textAccording to the New European Bauhaus, sustainability, aesthetics and inclusion should guide the renewal of our consumption and production lifestyles, based on a place-based and human-centred approach at different scales: territorial, urban, neighbourhood or small municipality. On the other hand, both the ecological transition and the resource circularity should support the revolution of project processes, methods and tools in a life-cycle perspective. This will take at least 25 years, but immediate action is urgently needed to redefine the boundaries of the future balance between humankind, environment and resources that are at risk.
In this scenario, the architectural heritage could become a resource—cultural, social and economic, but also environmental—as a stock of materials and energy embedded in the built environment. The historic centres (HC), a particular part of this heritage, are threatened by increasing depopulation and abandonment phenomenon as a paradigm of the linear approach to the built environment: HC embody values and resources that should be preserved and kept in use with a view to resources circularity. However, possible valorisation and regeneration strategies presuppose interventions that put at risk the values as well as the embedded resources.
The paper presents an ongoing methodology for the analysis and representation of small historic centres, based on a multidimensional model mapping that aggregates complex data on state of conservation and use, material consistency, residual performances, material and immaterial values. The intersection of new uses, performance improvement and associated environmental impacts describes the small historic centre’s margins of adaptability and resilience to potential risk of loss and alteration, by providing future design scenarios for regenerating and adapting
Human/Urban-Scapes and the City Prospects. An Axiological Approach
No full textThis contribution deals with the issue of the representation in terms of value attributes of the municipalities characterized by complex evolutive processes involving their landscape, urban and architectural characteristics. With reference to the case study of the municipality of Syracuse (Italy), an assessment pattern has been drawn with references to the two dimensions of the urban and human capital, and based on the official dataset by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), on the Census Sections scale. Many indices have been coordinated within an observation-interpretation pattern involving the three main aspects of the evolutionary approaches concerning the natural eco-systems. A GIS-based representation of the numeric results coming from a Hierarchic Multidimensional approach allowed us to identify some of the main typical urban/human profiles referable to the areas more significantly characterized by landscape-urban and socioeconomic values, as well as the ones affected by decay processes
The Value of the House-City System as an Emerging Identity Towards “Circular Architecture”
No full textThis study on the relationship between creativity and responsibility in the processes of revitalisation of abandoned territories is part of the debate on the structural drift to which the possible long-term effects of public deficit spending envisaged by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan launched by the Italian Government to combat the economic crisis generated by the pandemic. This emergency has frozen the austerity regime and the constraints that the EU has placed since its inception on public spending and welfare, especially by the most indebted countries. Starting from an overall background of the territorial economic and demographic disadvantage, and in the prospect of the ecological transition programme, the paper proposes a Public–Private Partnership approach to the renovation of the depopulated old towns, through a financial tool combining Social Impact Bond features with the financing process at the base of tax credit properties renovation, consistent with the administrative aptitudes of the small-town centres
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
New Perspectives for the Building Heritage in Depopulated Areas: A Methodological Approach for Evaluating Sustainable Reuse and Upcycling Strategies
No full textThe building reuse can reduce both consumption of non-renewable resources and production of construction and demolition waste, preserving the archi-tectural and constructive culture. The progressive depopulation of the European inner areas is an opportunity to discuss the potential of reuse and sustainable adaptation of extensive heritage sites to cope with abandonment processes. The study of depopula-tion processes, as well as the investigation of case studies, allows to analyze the main strategies implemented to regenerate and repopulate abandoned inner areas, to high-light successful approaches and intervention criteria. In this scenario, “smart shrink-age” emerges as a powerful strategy to systemize resources and values embedded in the territories. On the basis of the economic-territorial interpretation of the perfor-mance decay process of buildings and settlement systems, developed by the research group of the Universities of Sassari and Catania, the paper proposes a multi-scale methodological approach for the evaluation of enhancement strategies and tech-nological upcycling. The research links building performance with the urban and territorial values, integrating the Performance-Based Building Design in an axio-logical approach based on the solidarity between functions and values, referring to the economic category of human and urban capital. The model is tailored to the characteristics of Sardinia, the Italian region with the strongest population shrinkage in inner areas. The result is an analysis-evaluation-programming model, based on an iterative process of information/decision-making, allowing to steer intervention strategies toward a balance between the rehabilitation of the built environment and the enhancement of cultural and environmental resources, offering new opportunities for socioeconomic development
Regeneration of small urban centres in inland areas: digital technologies, circularity and material culture
No full textLo studio riguarda la circolarità nell’uso delle risorse locali nelle strategie di rigenerazione urbana; il tessuto campione è il centro storico di Buddusò (OT), interamente costruito in granito.
Sulla base dello studio delle relazioni tra cultura materiale, tecnologie costruttive e modi dell’abitare, e delle modalità di lavorazione del granito, la metodologia volge a definire modelli per la formazione di soluzioni costruttive circolari.
La disponibilità dei materiali di riuso è verificata da un database che integra l’analisi del territorio (GIS) sul sistema delle cave presenti (rifiuti pre-consumo) e del tessuto per l’identificazione degli edifici in abbandono (rifiuti pos-consumo).
Lo studio ha come fine la formazione di una strategia elaborata a partire dai valori socioeconomici e ambientali del territorio e l’introduzione di soluzioni costruttive innovative, fondate su una cultura materiale fortemente identitaria, a basso impatto ambientale ed elevata efficienza energetica.
La buona pratica coinvolge aziende, progettisti e uffici tecnici nel tradurre le economie della pietra in linguaggio architettonico e l’azione amministrativa in paesaggi urbani e identità locali.
Il modello supporta l’operatività delle SNAI e SRAI nel conseguimento degli SDG con la selezione delle più adeguate misure del PNRR. L’originalità della proposta consiste nell’assumere la circolarità delle risorse come driver dell’integrazione tra le forti connotazioni naturali e culturali di queste identità urbane, auspicandone l’introduzione nei piani particolareggiati dei Centri Storici (PPCS) per superare l’ancora dominante approccio tassonomico al costruito storico-tradizionale. Data la crescente esposizione dei territori ai cambiamenti climatici la buona pratica, sulla base di un ripensamento del rapporto tra ambiente naturale ed artificiale, propone uno strumento interscalare e replicabile in contesti diversi a supporto delle strategie di rigenerazione delle aree interne
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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