CICOP-ITALY

1st Specialty International Conference

on

Monumental Cemeteries:

Knowledge, Conservation, Restyling and Innovation

03 – 05 May 2006

1^st Announcement

Venue:

Theatre of S. Carlo, Modena, Italy

UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre

ASCE

Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe

Regione Emilia Romagna (Italy)

Comune di Modena (Italy)

University of Florence (Italy)

University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

ARCCHIP-Advanced Research Centre for Cultural heritage Interdisciplinary Projects, CZ

BRAU-Biennial of Restoration (CICOP Federation)

Association of Conservators of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia

International Master on the Rehabilitation of the Architectural Heritage, CICOP Federation

Archeological Institute of Aegean Studies, Minister of Culture of Greece

Organised by CICOP-Italy

(International Center for the Rehabilitation of the Architectural Heritage)

Introductory Remarks and Congress Aims

Monumental Cemeteries have to satisfy prescribed requirements. Conceptual Design has to rationally define the basic procedures to get sound arrangements not only safe but also economical, aesthetical and of good quality.

Without wanting anything to remove from the expressive potential offered to the designer by the funeral theme, and to the role of the cemetery structures within the theoretical debate and the routine European architectural practice, the seminar proposes to create the conditions for a renewed approach to the spaces of the burial in the European countries. It is important to understand what is the historical and monumental meaning which the cemetery assumes as a projection of architecture today and to consider the intervention on the existing cemetery structures as a transforming typology and house building with specificity, and such characteristics to be asked for basic technical, operational and trial approaches on up-to-date concepts. Strategy and management needs are to be known, such that are to support a planning activity able to qualify and to check the project of knowledge and recovery in the different phases of planning, designing, realization, management and fruition.

In this optic there must be considered: the historical and artistic information of the good, the diagnostic one, the evaluation of opportunity of intervention in technical-economic terms, the economic validation of the interventions, the possibility to intervene with technical solutions able to support the maintenance and the improvement of the performances in to be.

The seminar proposes, in a picture of thematic and correlated parameters, to:

• contribute to the editing of tools for supporting decisional actions, to appraise and to validate the action of maintenance and retraining of the cemeteries, starting the elaboration of coherent trial, systematic and informative statutes to the plurality of the existing cemetery typologies in Europe and other continents,

• diffuse the knowledge of the monumental cemeteries all around the world,

• ensure renewable interest towards the importance of the historical-monumental cemeteries inside the national and international institutions,

• promote initiatives for common projects concerning the conservation of the monumental cemeteries,

• share the best experiences in interventions on existing cemeteries and innovative projects,

• involve people in education on historical and social values of historical-monumental cemeteries,

• provide a forum for networking.

The conference invites papers concerning “Cemetery Complexes in open and covered spaces”, “Mixed cemeteries (Christians, Moslems, Jewish, etc.)”, “Disused Monumental cemeteries in inhabited centers”, “Military cemeteries”, “Protection of the Ancient Necropolises”, on the following themes:

• THEME 1. Knowledge

The cemetery and the relationships with the architecture and the sculpture.

The spaces of cemetery in different cultures, Technologies, State of the art and Diagnosis process.

Cultural Identity of modern urban cemeteries.

Knowledge of cultural values of the cemeteries and sensitization/education/participation of the citizens to the protection and restoration activities.

Promotion of tourist activities and environment enhancement in the cemetery places.

• THEME 2. Conservation

Conservation and Restoration remedy and proposals, Risk Assessment and Management, Policy, New management processes for the cemeteries.

• THEME 3. Restyling and Innovation

Cemeteries and urban burials, Modern metropolitan cemeteries, Interventions of rehabilitation, of space amplification, Functional and Normative adaptation.

Special session: The S. Cataldo (Modena) historical cemeteries designed by Cesare Costa (1855) and Aldo Rossi (1971). Historical and technical vicissitudes from the initial project until nowadays.

Dates to remember

Abstract

• No more than one page A4: by March 10, 2006

Acceptance notification

• By March 20, 2006

Full Paper

• No more than 8 pages, single column, single spaces, use double spacing after sub-headings or new paragraphs. Figures and tables must be among the text. Full instructions will be sent to authors with accepted abstracts.

• Papers must be received by March 30, 2006

Committees

Honorary President:

Francesco Bandarin, Director of UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre

Conference Chairpersons:

Prof. Arch. Nina Avramidou

President of CICOP-Italy, University of Florence (IT)

Prof. Arch. Ezio Godoli

Directive Committee member of CICOP-Italy, University of Florence, Italy.

Scientific Advisory Committee

Dr. Damjana Pecnik and Mojca Kovac

Association of Conservators of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, CICOP-Slovenia

Prof. dr. Sonja Zitko

University of Ljubljana, (Slovenia)

Arch. Elisabetta Frascaroli

OSA, Associazione Europea di Storici dell’Architettura, (Italy)

Prof. Arch. Miguel Angel Matràn, Prof. Arch. Enrique Carbahal, Prof. Dr. Eduardo M. Sebastian Pardo and Prof. Margaret Hart

CICOP-Spain

Prof. Eng. Agostino Catalano

CICOP-Campania, University of Molise, (Italy).

Prof. Eng. Nuhad Abdallah

CICOP- Syria, University of Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria

Prof. Arch. Andreas Giacumakatos

CICOP-Greece, Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki, (Greece)

Prof. Arch. J. Ortiz Lajous

CICOP-Mexico

Prof. Arch. Alberto Satolli and Arch. Benedetta Maio

CICOP-Italy

Prof. Arch. Jorge Bozano

CICOP-Argentina, University of Buenos Aires

Prof. Eng. Franco Mola

University of Milan, (Italy)

Assoc.Prof. Milos Drdacky

Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic

Technical and Organizing Committee

Arch. Benedetta Maio (Firenze), Arch. Claudio Bragaglia (Modena), Arch. Annalisa Mariani (Firenze), Arch. Eugenia Valacchi (Firenze), Dr Valerio Borgonuovo (Modena), Arch. Giorgio Serafini (Modena), Arch. George Sideris (Greece).

Additional Information

Information regarding registration and accommodations, technical exhibits, social events, technical tours and other issues will be included in subsequent announcement which will be regularly provided on web site:

http://soalinux.comune.firenze.it/cicop

For more information about the congress, contact:

CICOP-Italy

c/o University of Florence

Dept. of Technology of Architecture

Via S. Niccolò 89° - 50125 Florence, Italy

Email: MO06@taed.unifi.it

Fax: +39.055.2491527/2347152

Tel: +39.055.2491547

R.M. +39.347.6714.074, +30.6947.668.163

Registration Fees (in Euro)

Modes of payment

1. Cheque (bank drafts or cheques must be drawn on an Italian Bank (personal or international cheques are not acceptable).

2. Telegraphic Transfer (in Euro) to:

CICOP-Italy, Account N° 1633, Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, Agenzia 30, viale Petrarca 120r – 50124 FIRENZE, Italy, CAB: 02839, ABI: 06160, SWIFT: CRFI IT 3F, IBAN: IT65X 06160 028390 0000 1633C00

Cancellation Policy: (only acceptable in writing to the Secretariat)

One week before date of conference: full refunds less 15% overhead / Administration charges; no refunds thereafter, however, a set of the conference documentation will be sent to you, or alternatively you may send a replacement (please advise name) at no extra cost.

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