Even starting from the purpose of restoring the damage caused by a natural disaster, the post-earthquake reconstructions imply the risk of triggering a set of social disasters that may affect the public health sphere. In the case of the... more
Even starting from the purpose of restoring the damage caused by a natural disaster, the post-earthquake reconstructions imply the risk of triggering a set of social disasters that may affect the public health sphere. In the case of the L’Aquila earthquake this risk seems to emerge within the urban planning on two levels of dwelling: at a landscape level, where there has been a change in the shape of the city towards a sprawling-sprinkling process; at an architectural level, on the problematic relationship betwe- en the politics and the poetics of cultural heritage protection and the goal to get restoration works capable to ensure the citizens seismic safety.
Pur partendo dalla finalità di risanare i danni causati da un disa- stro naturale, le ricostruzioni post-sismiche sono esposte al rischio d’innescare una serie di disastri sociali che possono ripercuoter- si sulla sfera della sanità pubblica. Nel caso del terremoto dell’Aquila questo rischio pare delinearsi urbanisticamente su due livelli dell’abitare: a un livello paesaggistico, dove si assiste a un mutamento della forma della città verso la dispersione abitativa; a un livello architettonico, nel problematico rapporto tra le politiche e le poetiche di tutela del patrimonio culturale e l’obiettivo di pervenire a dei restauri che garantiscano la sicurezza sismica dei cittadini.
One of the acquisitions of contemporary conservation philosophy is precisely this: you don’t restore the image but the matter of the work; restoration is first and foremost the conservation of the work’s authenticity. The task of... more
One of the acquisitions of contemporary conservation philosophy is precisely this: you don’t restore the image but the matter of the work; restoration is first and foremost the conservation of the work’s authenticity. The task of conservation is not returning to an impossible past but rather enabling the work to be handed down to the future. From this standpoint, in today’s conservation language we speak of conservation: guaranteeing through our efforts that the work entrusted to us will still be available for the future, for ourselves and the generations to come, eliminating or slowing down the causes of deterioration that endanger it so that it can be enjoyed and used. The project, "Milan Archaeology for Expo 2015. Towards a valorization of the archaeological heritage of the city", intends - respect to these theoretical and methodological - to develop processes of knowledge and planned conservation of urban archaeological areas with coordinated maintenance actions, promo...
