Program

May 25th, 2022

8.45 – 9.15 am Registration and Opening web platform

9.15 - Welcome messages Academic authorities Introduction New Metropolitan Perspectives

10.00 – Panel A - keynote speeches

11,20 - 12,20 am Starting II Edition Rhegion UN 2030: towards a new space’s ORMA, Opportunity and Risks of new Modalities of Anthropization between sustainability, innovation and fragility for the territory

Introduction

Stefano Aragona, Scientific Responsible for II Edition Rhegion UN 2030

Keynote Speakers

- Federico Butera, prof. Emeritus, Polytechnic of Milan, Coping with complexity

To govern the ecological transition

 Andrè Torre, President of the European Regional Science Association, Natural resources, territories, and cities, between opportunities and risks of new anthropization dynamics

12,30 am Discussion

1,30 - 2,30 pm Lunch time

2,30 - 4,00 pm Introduction

Francesco Carlo Morabito, Vice Rector Delegate for Internationalization and International Relations, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria

Stefano Aragona, II Edition Rhegion Chief

Ecological and Urban Planning Transition, for the 90th anniversary of the National Institute of Urban Planning - INU: from paradigms to the ecological approach

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Chairs: Fabiola Fratini - University of Rome La Sapienza, Stefano Aragona - II Edition Rhegion Chief

Costa Rica: an exemplary path of ecologically sustainable territory
Michele Talia, President of the National Institute of Urban Planning - INU, Looking for new ways
Vincenzo Linarello, President of Cooperative Group GOEL, A virtuous example of local sustainable development
Ricardo Petrachi, President of the Biennale of Public Space, The “public city” as a privileged place for ecological transition
Domenico Condello, President of the Order of Engineers of the Province of Reggio Calabria
Raphaelle Thiollier, Direction des Affaire Scolaires, Paris, The Oasis Cours d'Ecole program and the regeneration of neighborhoods starting from the school courts
Fabiola Fratini, University of Rome La Sapienza, Urban microforests between schools and neighborhoods as nodes of a local green infrastructure
Pietro Bova, National Coordinator of Educational Projects Italian Youth Association for UNESCO, EDU: education and participatory actions to involve students in urban planning and ecological transition

4,15 - 5,45 pm

Ecological Transition and National Recovery and Resilience Plan - PNRR: more opinions compared

Chairs: Gabriella Pultrone - Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Stefano Aragona - II Edition Rhegion Chief

Kenya: Which sustainability?
Adriano Giannola, President of the Association for the development of industry in Southern Italy – SVIMEZ, Climate and energy transition, sustainability, mobility: role of the South in the EU context for sustainable development and decarbonisation
Marco Bussone, President of the National Union of Municipalities and Mountain Authorities - UNCEM, For a more balanced territorial development thanks to the villages and towns
Francesca Fatta, Coordinator of the International PhD Program in Architecture,

University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria

Concetta Fallanca, Mediterraanea University of Reggio Calabria, And The Urban Planning?
Ilario Tassone, President of the Order of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects, Conservators - APPC of the Province of Reggio Calabria
Alberto Ziparo, Society of Territorialists, The vision of the territorialists
Confindustria Reggio Calabria
Silvia Brini, ISPRA, co-coordinatrice Gol 11, Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development - ASviS, Territories and sustainable development objectives: natural and anthropogenic risk

6,00 - 7,30 pm

Transition Ecology as Climate Eemergency for the Territories, The time to act is now

Chairs: Francesca Assennato - ISPRA, Stefano Aragona - II Edition Rhegion Chief

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC
Norway: Ecological Development, Nature Protection, Territorial Resilience
Patrizia Lombardi, President of the Coordination Committee of the Network of Universities for Sustainable Development (RUS), The RUS effort and activities for accelerating the transition
Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research - ISPRA
Futuridea - Innovazione Utile e Sostenibile: Local and Gobal and Local Sustainability
Consuelo Nava, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria
Francesco Miceli, President of the National APPC

May 26th, 2022

Presentation of the published papers by Springer

Keys to reading as an opportunity for the territory

It is interesting to see how the topics of environmental and social sustainability have been addressed in the various papers. And like all of them, however, they have a common feature: the interconnection between the different aspects addressed. This is in line with the United Nations Agenda 2030 philosophy which, expressly stated in the last Goal, calls for a partnership between all the previous Goals.

The reference topics, for operational reasons, were divided as follows: “Scenarios of territories between cities and villages for the ecological transition”, “The ecological transition into the existing: challenges for the ancient and modern heritage”, “Energy Communities, Territory, Re-forestation, Water in the ecological transition: participation and monitoring”, and “Small local steps essential for the ecological transition”.

4.30 – 5.30 pm 

Scenarios of Territories between Cities and Villages for the Ecological Transition

Chair: Sandro Fabbro - University of Udine, Francesca Silvia Rota - Univeristy of Turin

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Ecopolis vs Megacity: a post-crises regional-urban vision towards 2050 by Sandro Fabbro
and Ecological transition and planning strategies, author Stefano Aragona, offer basic considerations and structural proposals relating to the ecological transition.
Scenarios that in Big Data and Cultural Heritage, by Vincenzo Barrile and Ernesto Bernardo, have a very interesting contribution on the relationship between digital technological innovation and the necessary change of mentality.
Change of mentality that Rossella Marzullo faces in the essay Rethinking the South in humanistic, social and pedagogi-cal perspective. Rethinking the relationship between local and global. Particularly interesting in declining the topic by emphasizing the speficities of the southern anthropological context.

5.30 – 6.30 pm

2.  The Ecological Transition into the Existing: Challenges for the Ancient and Modern Heritage

Chair: Paolo Salonia - ISPC CNR & ICOMOS, Gabriella Pultrone - Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria

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Theme considered, more broadly and attentively to spatial and urban planning issues, by Fernando Verardi in the paper Rethinking new communities. Moving towards a science of cities.
Argument then deepened in rural villages that are – or can become – smart as Gabriella Pultrone writes in Combining the Ecological and Digital Transitions: Smart Villages for New Scenarios in the EU Rural Area.
And that Maria Rossana Caniglia treats from the historical point of view and suggests some possible hypotheses of new developments of sustainable anthropization in her contribution Small Rural Towns and Farmhouses of the Opera for Valorizzazione of Sila in Calabria. Narrated Memory from the Past and the Present, Research for Possible Sustainable Scenarios.
To then come to the description of the scenario proposed by Nunzio Bruno Palermo in his Hypothesis of Recovery And Redevelopment in the Territories of the Stilaro, whose valley was the site of important industrialization in the Bourbon era.

6.30 – 7.30 pm

Energy Communities, Territory, Re-forestation, Water in the Ecological Transition: Participation and Monitoring

Chair: Fabiola Fratini – University Sapienza of Rome, Stefano Aragona - Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria

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In the Ecological Transition, water is of great importance. Its role in relation to climate change and as an essential resource is fundamental. Cities have had energy from it and it has been, and is, one of the main communication modality. In relation to it, they have been built and can be rebuilt as

Carmela Mariano writes in Climate-proof planning: water as engine of urban regeneration in the ecological transition era and
Irene Poli with Paola Imbesi emphasize in their paper Green Infrastructures and Water Management. Urban regeneration strategies to face global change. In these writings the urban and social aspect begin to emerge with ever more force and are present also in
Climate Change and “local Nature Based Solution” towards resilience, essay fosussed on an holistic approach in town planning by Fabiola Fratini.

The last two writings deal in a more technological way of the possible, and necessary change, for reasons of sustainability, of buildings and urban centers.

The first, Reversible Building Technologies and Unconventional materials for the Circular and Creative reuse of Small Centers by Francesca Giglio, Sara Sansotta, and Evelyn Grillo, contextualizes the topic in small towns and suggests the use of particular materials, also with the involvement of population.
Citizens who are also the actors of the Application of crowd sensing for sustainable management of smart cities by Ilaria Pigliautile and Myriam Carraù, essay in which, thanks to their involvement, there can be various uses of smart services useful for their well-being.

In conclusion, it should be emphasized that the topics covered are all present in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan in which greenery and digitization constitute the basic philosophy, even if in it lacks an overall strategic vision of the territory and the city.

II Edition Rhegion UN 2030 INFORMATION

Stefano Aragona - Coordinator of the II Edition Rhegion UN 2030

Department Heritage, Architecture, Town Planning - PAU, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria

Eng., Ph.D., Researcher in Town Planning, Master of Science in Economy & Policy Planning,

Delegate of the Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria at the Universities for the Sustainable Development Network - RUS

Email: saragona@unirc.it

           rhegionun2020.2030@unirc.it

II Edition Rhegion United Nations 2030: Towards a new space’s ORMA, Opportunity and Risks of new Modalities of Anthropization between sustainability, innovation and fragility for the territory

http://www.nmp.unirc.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/FS-RH.pdf

Even before pandemic cities shown thermodynamic limits, great social and contradictions (Harvey, 1993, 2012) and of meaningless (Augè, 1992, 1999): results of uncontrolled globalization (Rodrik, 2011) and of an unsustainable artificialization (Munafò, 2020). To respond to economic, environmental and health crises, with resilience as key element for environmental and social antifragility ((Rifkin, 2019; Taleb, 2012), the Event intends to face new paths of reterritorialization (Raffenstin, 1987). So participating in developing a robust theoretical and methodological framework inspired by the autopoiesis (Maturana and Varela, 1987) and ecopolitics (Morin, 1985, 2020), cultured technology (Del Nord, 1991; Zeleny, 1985), to go beyond the paradigm of the modern city, based on the goals’ partnership required by the UN 2030 Agenda (2015). That is the transition from process control to product control (Nilles, 1988) together with the possible breaking of the synchrony between spaces and times, the foundations of the Informational city (Castells, 1989, 1996, 1997; Beguinot, 1989; Aragona, 1993), opens to new opportunities for the territory (Faggian, 2020; Torre, 2020). That is the digital transition an opportunity already present since the beginning of the 90s see “La città virtuale. Trasformazioni urbane e nuove tecnologie dell'informazione”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPgW6S5r6jY. So, contributing to the elimination of land consumption and to the protection of biodiversity (EU, 2019, 2020), developing operational paths to implement the Glocal (Robertson, 1995), between internal and central areas, based on the circular economy, combining innovation and environment.

The reference to Rhegion, the ancient Greek name of Reggio Calabria, intends to highlight the importance of history and memory for the present and to propose scenarios for a sustainable future linked to cultural, material and intangible heritage. Considering, moreover, that we are in the Region of Bernardino Telesio, author of De rerum natura iuxta propria principia, mentor of Tommaso Campanella, coming from Stilo (RC), who wrote The City of the Sun.

The Ministry or the Ecological Transition - MiTE, the European Regional Science Association - ERSA, the Association for the development of industry in Southern Italy - SVIMEZ, , the National Institute of Urban Planning - INU, the Society of Territorialists - SdT, the National Union of Municipalities and Mountain Authorities - UNCEM, the Network of Universities for the Sustainable Development - RUS, the National Council of Engineers - CNI, of the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Economic Development - ENEA, the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research - ISPRA, the Italian Alliance for the Sustainable Development - ASviS, the Association Biennial of the Public Space - APS, the Order of Engineers and the Order of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects, Conservators of the Province of Reggio Calabria, the PhD. in Architecture, and Confindustria Reggio Calabria have already granted their patronage to the Event, waiting for others as the National Council of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects, Conservators - APPC.

The Event and the Call for papers was on the website of the European Regional Science Association - ERSA, the National Institute of Town planning - INU, the Network of the Universities for the Sustainable Development – RUS, the National Council of Engineers

https://ersa.org/events/nmp2022-rhegion-united-nation-2030/

https://www.inu.it/news/rhegion-united-nations-2030-call-for-paper-aperto-fino-al-17-dicembre-l-inu-patrocina/

https://reterus.it/bandi-e-opportunita/

https://www.cni.it/media-ing/news/226-2021/3818-rhegion-united-nations-2030-call-for-paper-aperto-fino-al-30-dicembre

http://www.nmp.unirc.it/focus-sessions/

II Edition Rhegion UN 2030 Scientific working group

Stefano Aragona (Coordinator) - Department Heritage, Architecture, Town Planning - PAU, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria; Eng., Ph.D., Researcher in Town Planning, Master of Science in Economy & Policy Planning, Delegate of the Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria at the Universities for the Sustainable Development Network - RUS, Elected member of the Coordination Committee of the RUS, Delegate for Relations with National and International Networks

Gabriella Pultrone - Department Architecture and Territory - dArTe, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria. Architect, PhD in “Planning and Design of the Mediterranea City”. Assistant Professor in Urban Planning - Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria.

Member of the University Quality Committee (PQA)

Francesca Assennato - Geological Survey of Italy, Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research -  ISPRA. PhD in Energy and environment. Head of Land Monitoring Unit. Geological Survey of Italy - ISPRA. Responsible for ISPRA in relevant EU funded projects (H2020 EJP SOIL, Nellife4drylands). Main topics: land monitoring, impacts of urbanization, land degradation and desertification, ecosystem services, land use planning, urban regeneration

Sandro Fabbro - Polytechnic Department of Engineering and Architecture - DPIA, University of Udine

Graduated in Urban Planning at the University Institute of Architecture in Venice, PhD (1993), currently is associate professor. Scientific director of international and national research projects, he has almost 200 registered research products

Fabiola Fratini - Faculty of Engineering “Sapienza” Rome University, Department Civil Construction and Environmental Engineering – DICEA. Architect, PhD, professor of Urban Planning at the Faculty of Engineering “Sapienza” Rome University, DICEA. The main research field developed is sustainable urban regeneration. On this topic from 2015 she experimented methodologies and tools to support citizen empowerment and to release small actions for long-term strategies in the neighbourhood of San Lorenzo (Rome). She is author of papers on this subject: “Oasi Verdi a San Lorenzo (Roma)

Francesca Silvia Rota - University of Turin, RdTB in Geography. Before researcher at National Research Council, Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth - CNR IRCrES. She holds a Ph.D. in Territorial Planning and Local Development. Her research interests include local development, competitiveness, sustainability and resilience

Paolo Salonia - Director of Research associate of Institute Sciences Cultural Heritage – ISPC CNR,

ICOMOS IT Advisor and Executive Board Member, Roma

Architect, former Director of the Institute for Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage of the National Research Council, with more than five years of research experience in the field of knowledge for the preservation and enhancement Cultural Heritage.

Currently he is Research Director Associate at the ISPC-CNR and ICOMOS IT Advisor and Executive board member.

Scientific Committee

Marco Bussone - President of UNCEM - National Union of Municipalities and Mountain Authorities

Federico Butera - Prof. Emeritus Polytechnic of Milan

Concetta Fallanca, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria

Francesca Fatta, PhD. in Architecture, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria

Adriano Giannola - President of SVIMEZ - Association for the development of industry in Southern Italy

Patrizia Lombardi - President of the Coordination Committee of RUS

Tommaso Manfredi, Director of the Heritage, Architecture, Town Planning Department, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria

Francesco Miceli - President of National Council of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects, Conservators - CNAPPC

Francesco Carlo Morabito - Pro-rector Delegate for Internationalization and International Relations of the Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria

Francesca Moraci - Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria

Consuelo Nava, President of the Degree in Architecture, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria

Laura Ricci - Sapienza Univesity of Roma,

Michele Talia - President of INU - National Institute of Urban Planning

Andrè Torré - President of ERSA - European Regional Science Association

Giovanna Val Verde - Ambassador of Costa Rica in Kenya

Ronal Flores Vega - Ambassador of Costa Rica in Italia

Armando Zambrano - President of National Council of Engineers - CNI

Alberto Ziparo - Society of Territorialists - SdT

Stefano Aragona, Scientific Responsible for the II Edition Rhegion UN 2030, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria