The Workshop will mainly take place in the prestigious location of Palazzo Garofalo, close to the Cathedral of S. Giovanni Battista. The programme includes the following scheduled activities:

Design sessions

The sessions will be conducted in small workgroups guided by skilled tutors and professors. After a guided survey of the city centre and a preliminary briefing, each group will be asked to select a specific reference area and fix method and scales of intervention. The work sessions will be open to the public in order to stimulate discussions, not only among the groups themselves, but also interacting with local people.

Thematic lectures

Thematic lectures, conferences and round tables held by architects and scholars internationally renowned, will contribute to enrich the Workshop by showing planning and design experiences on current architectural and urban regeneration issues. These public meetings, scheduled by topics, will provide participants an opportunity to discuss with the speakers on the matters of the Workshop.

Public meetings

Public meetings will be organized to achieve contributions by inhabitants in order to find ideas from the social, economical and cultural representatives. Within Re-use Ragura website, links to the main social networks can be found, in order to extend the Workshop to anyone.

Guides tours and trips

Guided tours to the city of Ragusa and to the surrounding cities of the Noto valley will be organized.

Mid-term and final reviews

According to the schedule, the design process will be subjected to mid-term and final critics by an international committee of teachers and experts.

Exhibition and publication

Workshop results will be shown in a public exhibition where local administrators, professors and experts will be invited. Final designs, lectures and papers will be collected in a specific publication.

Credits

Students participating with success to Re-use Ragusa workshop activities will receive an official participation certificate and a 4CFU/ECTS certificate (valid only for students from the ‘Architettura e Società’ School, students from other Schools have to verify conditions at their own School). The final projects and papers may be freely used by the participants for Thesis at their universities.


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