Among the guests of the initiative, curated by the degree courses in Design, the director of Pesaro Italian Capital of Culture 2024
The University of the Republic of San Marino is a candidate as a reference in the international academic scene for the analysis and support of small fortified cities and micro-territories that want to reassert themselves through new identities, purposes and functions.
Indeed, this is the horizon of "Stretch the Edge", a symposium that on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 June will bring together academics from various continents, institutional representatives and more in the university headquarters of the Old Monastery of Santa Chiara, in the historic center of Mount Titano.
In collaboration with the Beijing City University and the University of Bologna, the event program includes speeches by figures such as Agostino Riitano, director of Pesaro, Italian Capital of Culture for 2024, and architects Helena Casanova and Pablo Sendra: the first , among other things, she is the author of the book "Public Space Acupuncture", while the second she wrote with Richard Sennett "Designing disorder - ideas for the city of the XXI century".
Together with them scholars from academic institutions such as the Milan Polytechnic, the Iuav University of Venice and the Vanvitelli University of Campania, forming a list of speakers that includes Renzo Macelloni, Mayor of Peccioli. Precisely in the Municipality in the province of Pisa, indicated among the virtuous examples thanks to a series of initiatives that involved a landfill transformed into an open-air museum, the works of the artist Vittorio Corsini, representative of the Titano at the Biennale, are an integral part of the village of Venice currently in progress. “The event – say the organizers of Stretch the Edge – intends to investigate how the discipline of Design can be a useful tool for the reactivation of territories located in internal areas, enclosed by natural barriers or artificial fortifications. Due to their size, morphology, environmental or anthropic characteristics, they sometimes present considerable problems. But precisely these often unique aspects differentiate them from one another by contributing to identities that make them socially, economically and environmentally attractive. Therein lie concrete possibilities for natural, urban and rural development through improvement, re-evaluation, re-elaboration and systematization in future processes of community repopulation and settlement".
The symposium, curated by the San Marino University degree courses in Design with the participation of the Confucius Institute, represents the new phase of a process that has seen the University of San Marino map, in recent months, about 150 realities from countries such as Belgium, Vietnam, China and Spain, soon available on a dedicated platform and destined to be enriched thanks to the two days of June. More information at the following link.