City Space Architecture is partner of Carleton University
Research project New Paradigm / New Tools for Architectural Heritage in Canada
We are delighted to announce that City Space Architecture is partner of Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada) in the research project called "New Paradigm / New Tools for Architectural Heritage in Canada", funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Program.
New Paradigm / New Tools is intended to explore the implications for architectural practice and pedagogy in what Gustavo Araoz characterizes as a “new paradigm” for heritage conservation. Araoz, president of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), observes that, while the parameters that guide theories of conservation have gradually moved toward intangible heritage, the practice of heritage conservation remains doggedly preoccupied with monuments. To address this, Araoz argues that we must separate the heritage values associated with cultural objects from the objects themselves. The role of the heritage architect, then, is not as a guardian of buildings per se — but as an agent for “managing change” through negotiation with competing cultural voices.
"New Paradigm / New Tools for Architectural Heritage in Canada" is coordinated by CIMS - Carleton Immersive Media Studio and it is involving leading international institutions and universities.
Our contribution to the research project started on May 2016 with an internship program dedicated to the investigations of specific historical case studies/heritage places in the city centre of Bologna. We are currently hosting a Canadian Master student from CIMS.
The internship at City Space Architecture is aimed at a deep study of the Italian city by means of digital photo-modeling and high definition surveys in order to capture its reality and experience it in the digital domain. The research project has a wider perspective, since it is oriented to the authoring of a set of data that will be the starting point for the discussion on the contemporary urban space, linking to digital models heterogeneous kind of information about the city. The project, whose boundaries are fading to the inter-disciplinary fields of architecture, computer graphics, history and urban design, is going to start profitable foreign exchanges on the subject of technology in relation to the urban form.
City Space Architecture's advisors in the "New Paradigm / New Tools for Architectural Heritage in Canada" research project are Simone Garagnani, our Vice President, for the digital modeling and representation and Luisa Bravo, our President, for the urban planning and design analysis.
