Lecturers

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ART, ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN
Bologna, Italy, 25-27 June 2014

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Raffaele Milani

Full Professor of Aesthetics, he has been a Research Associate in Aesthetics at the University of Bologna since 1974. He was Visiting Professor in various foreign universities (Europe, Canada, Japan). He participated in international symposiums and held lectures and seminars on aesthetic categories, on the comparison between the arts, on synaesthesia and the media, and on the aesthetics of the landscape. He teaches Aesthetics in the Department of Educational Sciences and he taught “Fenomenologia degli Stili” in the Hight School of Specialization on History of Art at the University of Bologna (2001-2007).  Director of post lauream Master in “Landascape Science and Design” (University of Bologna, 2003-2005); Member of the Institute of Advanced Studies (University of Bologna), 2003-2009; Member of the European Commission at the French Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development on: “De la connaissance des paysages à l'action paysagère” from 2004); Italian delegate at the International Association for Aesthetics. Member of the Scientific Board at the EURIAS program; Member of the Scientific Board of the Doctoral School of Semiotics, now PSCS. He has contributed widely to important Italian journals of aesthetics, such as “Rivista di Estetica”, “il verri”, “Studi di estetica” and “Estetica”, “The Journal of Asian Arts & Aesthetics”. He is currently Director of the “Laboratory for Research on the City” (Istituto di Studi Superiori, University of Bologna).

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Ettore Maria Mazzola

Graduated in Architecture at Università di Roma “La Sapienza” (1992), he is currently a Visiting Associate Professor of Traditional Urbanism and Architecture and Building Techniques at the University of Notre Dame, School of Architecture Rome Studies. He is expert of urban-architectural design, restoration and sustainability. He has published books and articles on a wide variety of topics dealing with 20th-century architecture, urbanism and urban sociology, including political themes in architecture and urbanism, the impact of new materials, and sustainability. In 2012 he received the International Urban Design Award by the “Making cities Liveable”, Portland, USA, for his exemplary project, “Urban Regeneration of the Groundscraper, Corviale, Rome”, in recognition of his visionary proposal to replace a “ground-scraper” with a human-scale new-traditional small town with mixed-use and piazzas, improving the landscape, economic and social well-being, without disrupting the inhabitants.

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Antonio Caperna

After studying Architecture and Urban studies (MSc) at the “Federico II” University of Naples, he achieved a PhD in Sustainable Urban Planning, a PG Cert in Inclusive Design, and a PG Dip. in Interactive Sustainable Design and Multimedia at Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Derby, UK. His researches investigate how new scientific developments in the fields of fractals, complexity theory, evolutionary biology, and artificial intelligence can help producing a new human-oriented architecture. Actually he is investigating new theoretical results that consider  urban structure as a  coherent complex system, and the application of morphogenetic and  biophilic  approach to urban design. Privileged research domains: Urban design and planning; Sustainability; Inclusive Design; ICT and Internet in the cities; Biophilia; Morphogenetic Design. He’s President and founder member of the International Society of Biourbanism.

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Simone Garagnani

Graduated in Architectural Engineering (University of Bologna, Italy, 2004), he developed a Ph.D. research in Building and Territorial Engineering entitled: “Digital Models and Design Archives - Integrated systems aimed to architectural documentation” (University of Bologna, 2010).

He is currently associate Post-PhD researcher at the Department of Architecture, University of Bologna (Silab laboratory). In 2012 he has been appointed as a Visiting Scholar at the EECS department of UC Berkeley (USA) in order to improve his skills in laser scanning survey and digital modeling. He was researcher at the Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research (CIRI) in Bologna, developing software and db methodologies BIM-related (2012-2014). Since March 2014 he is Research Unit Coordinator in the FIR (Future in Research) project entitled “Kainua. Restituire, percepire, divulgare l'assente. Tecnologie transmediali per la città etrusca di Marzabotto”, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, Research and University. At the School of Engineering and Architecture, University of Bologna he teaches Drawing, Survey, Virtual Modeling and Computer Graphics. He is also owner of an engineering professional practice in Bologna, collaborating with several architectural and engineering firms all over Italy, developing three-dimensional analysis models, virtual CAD settings and renderings.

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Luigi Nardacchione

SocialStreet (www.socialstreet.it) Cofounder and Board of Directors’ Member.

Coordinator of the WW first and larger active “Residenti in via Fondazza – Bologna” FB group, Responsible for “Institutions & Public Relations” activities. The purpose of the Social Street is to promote socialization between neighbors resident in the same street in order to build relationships, to interchange needs, to share expertise and knowledge, to implement common interest projects, with common benefits from a closer social interaction. To reach this zero cost objective, without opening new sites or platforms, Social Street makes use of the creation of Facebook closed groups.