Maredolce-La Favara, Palermo

public study seminar on the Prize-winning site and its context

Saturday 9 May 2015, from 09:30-13:30

The seminar will be held a few hours before the ceremony at which the Carlo Scarpa Prize will be presented to this year’s designated place. It offers an opportunity for a closer look, through the eyes of a group of experts from different disciplinary fields (landscape, botany, history, literature, agronomy, geology, urban planning, architecture, archaeology, sociology and humanistics…) at the place and its history, its distinctive natural and cultural features, its social context and its future prospects.

The seminar will be introduced and coordinated by Patrizia Boschiero and Luigi Latini

Francesca Corrao (LUISS University, Rome), La Sicilia arabo-normanna. Contesto storico e letterario alle origini della Favara (Arab-Norman Sicily. The historical and literary context of the origins of La Favara)

José Tito Rojo (University of Granada), Il lago della Favara e il suo contesto: acqua e architetture nell’Occidente musulmano (The lake of La Favara and its context: water and architecture in the Muslim West)

Giuseppe Barbera (University of Palermo), Maredolce-La Favara, i siti arabo-normanni e il paesaggio della Conca d’Oro (Maredolce-La Favara, the Arab-Norman sites and the landscape of the Conca d’Oro)

Lina Bellanca (Superintendency for the Cultural and Environmental Heritage of Palermo), Il recupero della Favara nella storia recente e nei progetti (The restoration of La Favara in recent history and in future plans)

Pietro Todaro (geologist, Palermo), Geomorfologia, idrologia e idraulica dell’antica Favara di Maredolce(Geomorphology, hydrology and hydraulics of the ancient Favara di Maredolce)

Stefano Vassallo (Superintendency for the Cultural and Environmental Heritage of Palermo), Archeologia nel “castello” di Maredolce-La Favara (Archaeology in the “castle” of Maredolce-La Favara)

Ferdinando Trapani (University of Palermo), Palermo, quartiere Brancaccio. Sviluppo urbanistico e problematiche attuali (Palermo, the Brancaccio district. Urban development and current problem areas)

Ferdinando Siringo (Danilo Dolci Secondary School, Palermo), La Favara e la vita del quartiere. Educazione, partecipazione, bene comune (La Favara and the life of the surrounding district. Education, involvement, common good)

Others taking part will include Maria Elena Volpes (Superintendent for the Cultural and Environmental Heritage of Palermo), other experts and interested parties from Palermo and the Scientific Committee of the Foundation. The discussion will be open to the public.