WEDGE NEWS – A day dedicated to living professionals took place in Cuneo, during which a valuable discussion was initiated and ecologically sustainable visions for the mountain area were designed. The event, included in the schedule of the Cuneo Montagna Festival and Cuneo Città Alpina 2024, was hosted in the Sala Ferrero of Casa Betania, headquarters of Confindustria Cuneo.
The Art.ur Association, with architects Dario Castellino and Alice Lusso, proposed a training event consisting of two long meetings, both in the morning and in the afternoon, in which around 200 architects, engineers and surveyors participated. The conference, curated and moderated by Luca Gibello, director of Il Giornale dell’Architettura, featured authoritative speakers and, during the round tables, other figures with diversified skills and representatives of local authorities.
In the first meeting BUILDING COMMUNITIES, the speakers Antonio De Rossi, Giorgio Azzoni and Armando Ruinelli invited reflections on the role of the project – building or territorial – as a tool for enhancing local resources, giving quality to contexts, promoting social cohesion and develop a sense of belonging. We asked ourselves, with respect to this framework of principles, how the various public and private entities involved in the governance of territories can contribute.
The afternoon meeting, entitled BUILDING SUPPLY CHAINS, thanks to the interventions of Guido Callegari, Marta Baretti, Sara Carbonera and Daniele Regis, led to the analysis of the role of territorial actors in their ability to create a system, connecting skills and developing integrated offers for the world of construction, starting from the available resources. Thinking about wood, the raw material par excellence of the Alpine territories, there was a debate on the possibility of creating a short supply chain that can keep competitiveness and eco-compatibility together.
“Cuneo Alpine City – declares the Mountain Metro Department – has the opportunity to take stock of itself. After understanding its territorial uniqueness, the day was an opportunity to analyze the very interesting architectural results that have emerged over the last 15 years in our territory and recognized throughout Italy. A unique regenerative architectural process is underway across the entire Alpine range, the result of complex work made up of supply chains, universities and architectural quality. The professionals of the Cuneo area are increasingly aware of the potential that our territory has and are demonstrating sensitivity and an approach appreciated by other Alpine areas”.
The architect Luca Gibello, curator of the Festival, adds: “The double meeting represented an important opportunity to give concreteness and content to the concept of “metromountain”: an indispensable connection between ideas, actions and integrated policies to be implemented in a synergistic logic between insiders and outsiders who have the issues of management of our delicate Alpine territories. Today more than ever we need to identify and promote good practices capable of making the mountains habitable according to eco-compatibility principles, well aware that “hit and run” tourism is a model with no future”.
The President of the Art.ur Association Michela Giuggia: “We are very satisfied with having created a new format that talks about architecture and thinks about the territory and living, in synergy with the professionals and administrators of the territory. A valuable analysis and a first step for eco-compatible and systemic design, in a territory that has the will and ability to enhance its Alpine identity”.
A project by
Art.ur Association
In the context of
Cuneo Alpine City
Cuneo Mountain Festival
With the contribution of
CRC Foundation
Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation
Piemonte region
With the support of
Confindustria Cuneo
In collaboration with
Order of Architects, Landscape Planners and Conservationists of the Province of Cuneo
Order of Engineers of the Province of Cuneo
College of Surveyors and Graduate Surveyors of the Province of Cuneo
(Photo Geordy Bergerone)
