In T. Empler, A. Caldarone & A. Fusinetti (ed.), DAI - Design for Accessibility and Inclusion (pp. 444-461). Alghero, Italy: Publica, ISBN 9788899586478.
In T. Empler, A. Caldarone & A. Fusinetti (ed.), DAI - Design for Accessibility and Inclusion (pp. 334-353). Alghero, Italy: Publica, ISBN 9788899586478.
In A. Sdegno & V. Riavis (eds.), DAI - Design for Accessibility and Inclusion (pp. 152-171), Alghero, Italy: Publica, ISBN 9788899586355.
Brescia, Italy: Grafo. ISBN 978-88-5493-081-0.
Detecting and enhancing memory means undertaking a scientific process of knowledge of an architectural complex in order to formulate proposals aimed at a coherent and respectful cultural enhancement. This volume presents the outcomes of the research "The City of Memory in the Capital of Culture: knowledge and enhancement of Brescia's Vantiniano Cemetery" entrusted by the Municipality of Brescia to the Department of Civil Engineering Architecture Territory Environment and Mathematics of the University of Brescia, Scientific Head Prof. Arch. Ivana Passamani. In the Survey section, contributions by Borin, Gentilin, Passamani, Roselli, Rossi and Sgobba document the complex activity of analysis of the Cemetery, conducted through archival research and instrumental and direct surveys and aimed at graphic restitutions of the site, vegetation, buildings and the most significant monuments and tombs. The Valorize section collects, in line with a vision of the Vantiniano as an open-air museum shared by the authors Longo, Passamani, Roselli and Sgobba, proposals for valorization that are based on the critical reading of some of its highly symbolic elements, on the preparation of five thematic visit routes supported by tactile panels usable by all visitors according to the principle of Design for All, and on the setting up of an exhibition structured to be permanent. The Vantiniano is a place of memory of the highest historical, cultural and social value. Knowing and enhancing it allows one to increase awareness of one's history and the deeds that helped write it.
In M. Centofanti, A. Sdegno, P. Cochelli, & V. Riavis (eds.), Cultural heritage survey and inclusive representation for museum accessibility (pp. 91-108). Milan, Italy: FrancoAngeli Open Access. ISBN: 978-88-3515-486-0, doi: 10.3280/OA-1040.
In: A. Marata & R. Galdini (eds.), DIVERSEcity Call for Papers - Biennale Spazio Pubblico (pp. 139-148). Rome, Italy: CNAPPC Consiglio Nazionale Architetti Pianificatori Paesaggisti e Conservatori. ISBN: 978-88-941296-4-9.
In a Diverse City all the people can be healthy and active. We propose micro-architectures where people can achieve many services and, at the same time, have sensorial experiences. The micro-architectures are sustainable because they're built by recycled materials; they're shaped according to the characteristics of urban spaces where they are built. They propose to unify the different elements of street furniture. Besides, the design is based on the Universal Design and Active City principles.
In: R. Salerno (ed.), Representation/Material/Immaterial Drawing As (In)Tangible Representation (pp. 1315-1322). Rome, Italy: Gangemi Editore. ISBN: 978- 88-492-3651-4.
Drawing the outline of the landscape against the sky conveys knowledge: a horizontal line evokes the plains, curvilinear lines the hills, stepped lines the buildings. How to communicate this to the blind and make them participants in the world around them? The skyline is treated in art as a strongly representative form of expression: some of its images are, here, a study reference on accessibility to/of the Brescia Castle. Visual points are identified where to translate the skyline image (intangible) into tactile (tangible) silhouette, based on the theoretical principles of Drawing and Universal Design. Drawing of the landscape's outline against the sky transmits knowledge: a horizontal line suggests the plain, the curved lines represent the hills, jagged lines are for the buildings. How to communicate it to blind people and make them take part of the surrounding world? The skyline is considered in the art contest as a strongly representative expressive form: here, some of art's images are a study reference on the accessibility to/of the castle of Brescia. Visual points are identified: here we translate the skyline's image (intangible) into tactile silhouette (tangible), according to the theoretical principles of Drawing and Universal design.
In: A. Di Luggo, P. Giordano, R. Florio, L. M. Papa, A. Rossi, O. Zerlenga, S. Barba, M. Campi, & Cirafici A. (eds.), Territories and frontiers of representation/Territories and frontiers of representation (pp. 1371-1378). Rome, Italy: Gangemi publisher international. ISBN: 978-88-492-3507-4.
Let us close our eyes and move in the dark: this is the best way to approach the problems of visual impairment and to feel that research must look at inclusive representation. We need to free ourselves from Western oculocentrism by applying the principles of "Design for all" and alternating between field testing and theoretical reworking, drawing on the existing bibliography. Communicating with models or tactile maps will allow synthesizing data and expanding the number of users. The different point of view, touch, is the new frontier of communication.
Urban Planning Information, volume (319), pp. 79-85. ISSN: 2239-4222.
This contribution contains an excerpt from a broader investigation of the issue of enhancing historic, natural and landscape sites through the definition and design of microarchitectures. The research methodology adopted follows a systematization of microarchitecture models, selected from the most representative of the most common cases and elaborated following their typification and design in the field.
In A. Cardaci, F. Picchio, A. Versaci (eds.), ReUSO 2024. Documentation, restoration and sustainable regeneration of the built heritage (pp. 1546-1556). Alghero, Italy: Publica. ISBN 9788899586454.
Trent: LISt Lab. ISBN 9788832080186
This book, for editorial reasons, contains only an excerpt of a larger research conducted by the editors of this volume on the issue of place-making, both in urban and naturalistic areas, through the study and design of micro-architectures. Throughout history, small-scale architectures have been a widespread manifestation of human beings faced with the need to root themselves in a particular place. Shelters, small services, landscape viewpoints, etc., have been shaped by an infinity of materials that have determined, depending on the techniques used and cultural contexts, different forms of response to the same need. In recent years, we can identify several examples of architecture, small and medium-sized, designed and referred to as "kiosks" or "pavilions" or "street furniture." Looking at the many examples, designed or built, we can extract the key words that are inspiring our research: decoration, entertainment, promotion, culture, art, functionality. Terms that can orient these microarchitectures for both naturalistic settings and urban situations that require increasingly urgent interventions, such as accessibility and disability. When we speak of microarchitectures, the relationship with the landscape becomes symbiotic both in relational terms with existing forms, whether of modernity or the past, and in experiential terms with material culture in its historical stratification. From this holistic perspective, architecture must assume the responsibilities of mediating between the new conformation of the landscape and its historical tradition, in the knowledge that it will inevitably end up changing both their internal relationships and those with the work itself. The new way of doing architecture must know how to read the landscape in which it is inserted, whether man-made or natural, and must take charge of its survival precisely in order to keep alive that "material culture" from which it was born. Architecture that does not know how to do this is bound to be experienced as a 'foreign body' and in so doing risks being forgotten or perceived as something whose preservation is not in the priorities of the anthropological context of which it is the child. The correct reading of the stratification of meanings present in a place, moreover, can give additional value to microarchitecture because it can be an opportunity to recover the human-landscape relationship in those contexts where this bond has been lost.
In O. Longo, & D. Sigurtà (ed.), Microarchitectures new enhancement systems for cultural heritage and their contexts (pp. 20-44), Trento, Italy: LISt Lab. ISBN 9788832080186.
The debate on urban space and the objects that populate it is as topical as ever, and it is possible to decline it by applying two scientific approaches: that of Drawing, which, supported by Surveying, guarantees knowledge of it through the graphic restitution of its formal, typological and mensural characteristics; that of Composition, which investigates its values and characters in order to be able to identify consonant ways for the insertion of new elements. It is therefore necessary to focus attention on the dialectical relationship between container/city and content/installation: a perceptual-visual, spatial, chromatic and material, stylistic relationship, but also a functional relationship that must be rationalized. Introductory premises allow us to frame the areas in which this contribution moves. The first premise concerns the concept of urban landscape, read with a particular slant that is that of the inclusiveness of space and the public functions it accommodates: the two poles - city and installation - must dialogue and interact to improve the daily life of all, in the direction of inclusiveness. Precisely on this theme, the second premise will sketch the state of the art, for a correct orientation between the different meanings. The paper will then propose an in-depth analysis of urban space and related furniture and some considerations and proposals for inclusiveness as an indispensable feature.
In: A. Luigini (ed). Proceedings of the 1st International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Digital Environments for Education, Arts and Heritage. EARTH 2018 Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, volume (919), pp. 647- 655. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-12240-9_67.
The "Torbiere del Sebino" is a natural reserve declared a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention (Ramsar, Iran, 1971). Due to its social-economic history and to the variety of species and habitats it's considered a priority area for biodiversity in the Po Valley. That's why we consider this area an optimal training ground in which it is possible to experiment a multisensory approach to sense the atmosphere that "is" the site itself. An educational path about landscape and environment starts from the photographic media and develops into a preconstructed graphic/textual tool. The photographic tool acts as a filter between the individual and the outside world when it is required to discriminate and interpret the characteristics of the area; another tool, the dynamic diary, helps the researchers to search for "genius loci," following a preordained index. After this preliminary activity, it would be possible to face the design of the microarchitectural structures, useful for enhancing and highlighting the peculiarities of the itineraries of the visit. The final outcome can be considered a "mediated landscape." The mediation process works through some steps: - the survey and study of the Torbiere landscape with a focus on the outcomes from the 5 senses - the selective attention to the outcomes of a single sense and the consequent project proposals for the enhancement of this site, focused only on one sense.
In: M. Palma Crespo, M.L. Gutiérrez Carrillo & R. García Quesada (eds.), ReUSO Granada 2017. Sobre una arquitectura hecha de tiempo, vol. 3 "Paisaje Cultural y Patrimonio Industrial" (pp. 335-341). Granada, Spain: Editorial Universidad de Granada. ISBN: 978-84-338-6131-3.
In the cultural landscape here presented an artificial channel on which was based the local economy is the protagonist of a cultural project. Survey and drawing are used to tell the life of a community and to invite visitors to use all the senses. Since sight alone is not enough to understand and control a place, the use of other senses allows us to live a full experience. The tour path promotes discovery and knowledge of the system Vaso Re, enhancing the sign of water, the forges and the still active mill, the paleoindustrial architecture settlements and multiple signals whose relationship with the water is tied to their role in the full system. You can then define this geographical area like a pervasive - open air museum, in line with the most recent settings of museology, linked to material culture.
Bienno, Italy: Municipality of Bienno.
Concept and scientific coordination of the entire project: I. Passamani. Scientific guide of the cultural route, with texts, photographic images, historical drawings and drafted specifically for the project.
In: S. Van Riel, & M. P. Semprini (eds.). Landscape degradation and spatial complexity. Second colloquium on landscape and land restoration (pp. 191-200). Florence, Italy: Alinea. ISBN: 88-6055-004-1.
The "Vaso Re" is a very ancient artificial canal that runs along an entire side valley of the Camonica Valley, crossing the territory of three different municipalities and flowing in a parallel position to the Grigna stream: both streams flow into the Oglio River in the municipal territory of Esine. This canal, derived in very ancient times from the Grigna stream, constitutes an extraordinary hydraulic/productive work that distinguishes this valley: in particular, however, it unmistakably connotes the municipality of Bienno, in that only here have not been implemented unwise policies of cancellation or forced intubation, thanks to the persistence of certain productive activities, the reduced technological adaptation of the same, and the particular interest that the municipal administrations have reserved for the maintenance of this hydraulic work. Faced with the inevitable, albeit slow and unenthusiastic abandonment of such strenuous activities - only one forge still produces iron tools using the ancient hammers driven by water wheels, while three forges and a mill acquired over the years by the Municipal Administration are still in operation for educational demonstrations - the need was felt for a comprehensive rethinking of the municipal territory affected by the route of the Vaso Re, avoiding punctiform interventions of restoration of individual buildings but rather aiming at the transformation of such an "integrated production system" into a real territorial museum or ecomuseum, according to the most recent approaches of museology related especially to material culture. The sites of industrial archaeology, rather than being dismantled and reassembled in another place as was the case with the now historical Open Air Museums, must be put in a position to tell their story while maintaining as far as possible their original and authentic conditions, with the help of a discreet and non-dominant cultural-educational system that favors the deepening of characters that are not immediately comprehensible. Thus, by following on the municipal territory the drawing made centuries ago by man with water, it will be possible to pick up the thread of the story inherent in the very history of the territory, which will be enhanced without putting in place complicated mechanisms of attraction, but more simply by highlighting its transformations and the very close connections between the raw materials it could offer and the activities that man has initiated there.
In: I. Passamani (ed.), Detecting and enhancing memory. Analysis and proposals for the Vantiniano cemetery (pp. 120-125). Brescia, Italy: Grafo. ISBN: 978-88-5493-081-0.
In: I. Passamani (ed.), Detecting and enhancing memory. Analysis and proposals for the Vantiniano cemetery (pp. 132-137). Brescia, Italy: Grafo. ISBN: 978-88-5493-081-0.
In: I. Passamani (ed.). Surveying and enhancing memory. Analysis and proposals for the Vantiniano cemetery (pp. 142-146). Brescia, Italy: Grafo. ISBN 978-88-5493-081-0.
In: I. Passamani (ed.). Detecting and enhancing memory. Analysis and proposals for the Vantinian cemetery (pp. 159-162). Brescia, Italy: Grafo. ISBN 978-88-5493-081-0.
In: I. Passamani (ed.). Detecting and enhancing memory. Analysis and proposals for the Vantinian cemetery (pp. 163-167). Brescia, Italy: Grafo. ISBN 978-88-5493-081-0.
In: I. Passamani (ed.). Surveying and enhancing memory. Analysis and proposals for the Vantiniano cemetery (pp. 168-172). Brescia, Italy: Grafo. ISBN 978-88-5493-081-0.
In: C. Bellanca, & C. Antonini Lanari (eds.), Rome, capital of Italy 150 years later, volume (2): Architectural pre-existences. Archaeological Areas - Landscape (pp. 611-622), Rome, Italy: Artemis. ISBN: 978-88-7575-405-1.
Careful observation of the landscape can trigger multiple reflections and critical assessments. In fact, paraphrasing Le Corbusier, seeing is not a passive act, but already contains the kernel of a project. This profound, multisensorial relationship sparks a knowledge-gathering process leading not only to an appreciation of the uniqueness, identity and inimitable nature of the site, but also to comprehension of its cultural and historical importance and relative significance. Drawing can be used to analyze what has been built by the hand of man and what nature itself has created, record- ing how it has been affected by the passing of the years and natural and artificial events. All these drawings -some more technical, others more emotional- join forces to influence the conservation and enhancement of the landscape. Innovation -primar- ily guided by digital technologies- helps to convey environmental heritage as well as inspire choices regarding governance. These unique, multifaceted systems involving parks, urban centers, walkways, paths and rural landscapes could be managed as part of an Observatory on enhancement-oriented knowledge.
In: AA VV. The bombing of Gavardo seventy-five years later (pp. 21-37). Brescia, Italy: LiberEdizioni, ISBN: 979-12-801481-7-9.
The study of places and the understanding of them is carried out through various innovative, inclusive and more effective forms of communication (from the new digital world to the tactile and multisensory). The research project is divided into several actions, the first of which aimed to create a space in which to pour information and data of various kinds that can become a "memory box" accessible to all. The cultural heritage of a territory is in fact an articulated system of stratified images and situations generated by the succession of natural and anthropic events. The main objective of the method presented is to collect these data and systematize them within an environment that is easily accessible to different types of users and that allows their enhancement, so as to make the cultural, historical, economic, and natural heritage of a territory usable, in order to foster the knowledge, empowerment and participation of the inhabitants.
In: A. Arena, M. Arena, R. G. Brandolino, D. Colistra, G. Ginex, D. Mediati, S. Nucifora, & P. Raffa (eds.). Connecting. Drawing for knotting and weaving/Connecting. Drawing for weaving relationships. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference of Teachers of the Disciplines of Representation. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference of Representation Disciplines Teachers (pp. 2142-2161). Milan, Italy: FrancoAngeli Open Access, ISBN: 9788835104490, doi: 10.3280/oa-548.116.
In: P. Fiore & E. D'Andria (ed.), Small towns...from problem to resource. Sustainable strategies for the valorization of building, landscape and cultural heritage in inland areas/Small towns...from problem to resource. Sustainable strategies for the valorization of building, landscape and cultural heritage in inland areas (pp. 423-432). Milan, Italy: Franco Angeli, ISBN: 9788891798428.
In: B. Guidi, L. Ricci, C. Calafate, O. Gaggi, & J. Marquez-Barja (eds.). Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good. GOODTECHS 2017. Lecture notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, volume (233), pp. 364-373. Cham, Germany: Springer. ISBN: 978-3-319-76110-7, Online ISSN: 978-3-319-76111-4, doi: 10.1007/978-3-3-319-76111-4_36.
This paper describes a web-based system composed of an authoring tool and a cross-platform mobile application, based on augmented reality and Bluetooth Low Energy technology, aimed at improving the visitor experience in a museum through tailored, accessible and engaging content and interaction. The system proposes itself as a low-cost solution for museum organizations, both in terms of required technical devices (visitors' smartphone is exploited for experiencing the augmented reality solution) and professional skills needed for long-term content maintenance. As to the latter, the authoring tool allows museum curators to create and manage all necessary contents that make up an app instance, including the structure of the museum, artwork descriptions and related materials (photos, videos and speeches) suitable for the different user profiles. A preliminary experimentation of the system demonstrates the feasibility of the proposal.
In: C. Gambardella (ed.), S.A.V.E. Heritage. Safeguard of architectural, visual, environmental Heritage (pp. 9). Naples, Italy: La scuola di Pitagora. ISBN: 978-88-6542-046-1.
Science, culture, economy: the interconnections between these elements represent the challenge of the XXIst century to protect the landscape by making it an engine for the economic development. Within this approach, and following the European Landscape Convention and the Urbani Codex, is the creation of the "Cultural Districts", conceived as an organization of actions, offices and services for the protection, conservation and enhancement of cultural heritage, aimed at the education, growth and involvement of citizens as well as for the development of local economies. They actively promote a development of cultural tourism and sustainable development, and they stimulate entrepreneurial innovation thereby respecting vocations and places' history. An operational tool aimed at combining science, culture and economy is the "Landscape Observatory": it conceives the permanent departure from the idea of the landscape as an one-way tool in favor of a multidisciplinary, historical, cultural, environmental as well as economical approach. Within this concept of knowledge crucial is the role of Representation. The creation of "Cultural thematic Routes" represents a successful response to the request for economic stimulus; it also sets the overcoming of the philosophical concept of the nowadays outdated Open Air Museums, assembled buildings, uprooted from their original sites and reassembled in fictional contexts. These paths tell the experience of a community through the help of teaching aids that develop contents not easily understandable: even the design of paths themselves contemplates in the foreground the role of Representation. The aim of this paper is to analyze all the above mentioned innovative ways to communicate and develop cultural identities.
AB, volume (90), 32-34. ISSN: 0393-3369.
For many centuries, the "Vaso Ré (the Rè Duct)" has represented the load-bearing scaffold for the economy of the Brescian Grigna Valley, acting as the ordering axis of the municipalities involved: the cultural and educational route "Discovering the Vaso Ré (the Rè Duct) along the tale drawn by the water" recently installed in Bienno (Bs) therefore aims to enhance this precious resource, making it usable with differentiated modes and levels. The inclusion of the project in the Program Agreement "Enhancement of the archaeological heritage and archaeological sites of the Roman age in the Middle Camonica Valley" demonstrates the strategic importance of the route, which can be identified as a demo-anthropological character pole, as an operational and vital territorial museum, bearing witness to the main territorial resources: water and iron.