The Study Day “Cultural Heritage, sustainability and resilience: from risk management to territorial development” is scheduled for Friday 28 June in the Conference Room of the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna, Ravenna campus. addressed the topic of territorial strategies and synergies aimed at predicting, preventing and managing risks impacting cultural heritage.
The day was born from the collaboration and dialogue between the projects SIRIUS – Strategies for the management of cultural heritage at risk (active in the PNRR PE05 CHANGES – Cultural Heritage Active Innovation for the Next-Gen Sustainable Society) and RESTART – Resilience and Territorial Development, Heritage at Risk and Protection (funded as part of the University initiative Alma CaReS – Climate Change, Resilience, Sustainability).
“The Cultural heritage is exposed to one multiplicity of risks of natural and anthropogenic origin which, if not appropriately managed, can compromise its conservation, resulting in the disappearance of historical evidence, identity values and social cohesion. The consequences of the adverse climatic events that affected Emilia-Romagna in May 2023 made us reflect on the need to make cultural heritage a key element of sustainable development processes – explain the organizers -. Although international action frameworks underline how we can no longer ignore the importance attributed to the relationship between heritage, society and territory, there is still a need, on a local scale, for a strategic and sustainable vision of participatory conservation and safeguarding”.
“The sharing of operational criteria and good practices in the management of cultural heritage at risk represents an essential starting point for all operators who are called to intervene during emergencies, each bringing their own specific skills and knowledge – states Professor Mariangela Vandini, Scientific Manager of the RESTART project – but it is equally important that this synergy of action materializes in the pre- and post-emergency phase, reasoning on the opportunity to develop intervention plans and guidelines that represent a first step towards an intervention methodology that is replicable and adaptable to different contexts”.
“Reasoning in terms of cultural heritage and sustainable development, it is essential that civil society is a conscious ally of the institutions, as well as an active part of the process of awareness and change – continues Dr. Sara Fiorentino, researcher of the SIRIUS project – The establishment of a culture of risk cannot therefore ignore the active involvement of citizens, in all age groups and with particular attention to young citizens”.
The Study Day will see the participation of representatives of the institutions and local authorities responsible for intervening in emergency situations, of representatives of the State Forces active in the protection of the Heritage in an opportunity for dialogue and discussion with representatives of European projects active on the topic of management of cultural heritage at risk. In the afternoon, teachers and researchers will present the SIRIUS and RESTART projects and their own research with a view to interdisciplinary comparison and dialogue.
The program of the event, open to citizens, is available at the link: https://beniculturali.unibo.it/it/eventi/patrimonio-culturale-sostenibilita-e-resilienza-dalla-gestion-dei-rischi-allo-sviluppo -territorial
