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September 16-28 2014

RE-USE Ragusa

In September 2014, the city of Ragusa will host a 12 days International Workshop on Urban and Architectural Design, addressed to students and postgraduates from Italian and foreign Schools of Architecture and Engineering.

This is the first initiative of Re-use Ragusa, an extensive program of study and design experience on the city and its environment that the Municipality of Ragusa is developing together with the Polytechnic of Milan, in view of its general urban plan revision.

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Context

Ragusa

Ragusa is the chief town of the southernmost province of Italy and one of the eight towns in south-eastern Sicily that in 2002 have been included in UNESCO World Heritage List for the innovation of their urban plans and the architectural values of their late Baroque monuments.

The city's origins are related to the different civilizations that have crossed Sicily over the centuries: Phoenicians, Sicilians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Spanish.Until the end of the seventeenth century the settlement was mainly concentrated on the eastern hill of Ibla.

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Public Lectures



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There will be lectures and panel discussions in which teachers, administrators, and personalities of the international architectural culture will present their experiences on cases related to the specific theme of the Workshop in dialogue with the participants. The conferences are organized by themes and will be open to all interested parties.