Brochure, Rome, March 2, 2012

THE CONFERENCE THE PROJECTThis conference, considered the final stage of works related The age-long history of the connection between civilizationto the Water shapes project, aims to spread knowledge of and water reveals that this resource plays a fundamentalthe results achieved and expand the debate to include role due undoubtedly to its many uses, but also to the Water Cultural Heritage:extra-European countries, promoting networking multiple cultural values, both tangible and intangible, toenhancement strategies of the immense cultural heritage which it is linked. Enhancement Strategieslinked to water. In this context, the following projects have The originality of the European project Water shapesbeen identified: coordinated by the National Research Council of Italy ->the Portus project in Ostia Antica (an extraordinary Institute for the Conservation and Valorization of Culturaldiscovery, also promoted through a web portal, affecting Heritage in Rome (CNR - ICVBC), consists in its capacity tothe rediscovery of the concept of portus as an important point out the link between this natural resource and thetheme for enhancement); cultural heritage (www.watershapes.eu). With this>the Aquae Urbis Romae: the Waters of the City of Rome perspective in mind, thematic categories have beenproject (aimed at increasing knowledge through the determined with the aim of organizing information andcreation of a digital archive based on historical and enhancing the cultural heritage linked to water - such asinteractive cartography, emphasizing the close link architectural artifacts, settlements, traditional functions andhistorically existing between the water system and urban symbolic values - in order to create a thematic digitaland territorial planning); archive.>the Qingkou Engineering Heritage on the Grand Canal The contribution of the six partners - coming from Franceproject (which promotes a systematic study of the Grand (École Nationale Supérieure dArchitecture de Toulouse),Canal in China exemplified by the complex case study of Italy (CNR - ICVBC - Rome; Studio 21 Graphic andQingkou aiming to reconstruct its original route on a GIS Multimedia Design s.n.c.), Portugal (Universidade doplatform by collecting historic maps, archival Minho) and Spain (Universitat de Girona; Universitat Roviradocumentation and archaeological findings and i Virgili, de Tarragona) - has illustrated the cultural andinvestigating construction techniques); material "shapes" of water in their respective countries,>the Hydria project (which promotes an educational analyzing the most representative of these over a periodapproach in the Mediterranean context as well as the ranging from Antiquity to the early XXth century. An in-depthfunctional recovery of traditional construction technologies study has been carried out of themes that include the sacredin order to support the sustainable exploitation of water); in Antiquity, production in relation to the landscape, the>the project relative to the Antique hydrological system of communications system and the urban system, throughPetra (which promotes the survey of water canalizations in case studies aimed at enhancing cultural assets linked toPetra, Jordan with the aim of contributing to the water.monuments state of conservation and the reutilization ofold canals).The conference, organized by the CNR - ICVBC - Rome,aims to promote an increased awareness among the public The conference is organised in the contest of the European project Water shapes. Meanings, uses and the Rome, March 2, 2012and scholars of the immense cultural heritage linked to architectural works of the most precious gift.water and the multiple forms of its enhancement, as well as co-ordinated by Heleni Porfyriou and Casa dellArchitetturato point out how precious this resource is for life on earth. has been funded with support from European Commission Acquario Romano (agreement 2010 - 1127/001-001 CU7-COOP7) Piazza Manfredo Fanti, 47 Organizing Committee: www.watershapes.eu Gabriella CIALDELLA info@watershapes.eu tel: +39 06.90672203 - e-mail: rs.rm@icvbc.cnr.it Organized by the CNR - ICVBC Institute for the Conservation and Enhancement of Cultural Heritage - Rome

PROGRAM 14.00 - 15.30 SESSION II 16.30 - 17.00 Coffee break WATER, URBAN FORMS AND MONUMENTS 9.30 Registration 17.00 - 18.00 SESSION IV Chairman: Lorenza de MARIA (Lazio Region) WATER AND FORMS OF PRODUCTION 10.00 - 11.00 Opening session Aquae Urbis Romae: the Waters of the City of Rome Chairman: Pietro TAMBURINI (Museum System Welcome speech Katherine WENTWORTH RINNE of Lake Bolsena) Patrizia COLLETTA (University of Virginia - USA)(Order of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects The HYDRIA Project and Curators of Rome and its Province) Water in the City of Braga Iro ALAMPEI from Roman times to the Modern Age (Mediterranean Information Office Giorgio MARTINO Manuela MARTINS, José MEIRELES, Maria do CARMO MIO-ECSDE / MEdIES Initiative - GR) (Acea Ato 2 S.p.A.) RIBEIRO, Fernanda MAGALHÃES, Cristina BRAGA (Universidade do Minho - PT) The Water Production System and the Transformation Piero TIANO of the Landscape around Lake Bolsena (CNR - ICVBC) Roma Caput Aquae: a long-term Relationship Perla Maria GIACCHIERI, Emanuela TODINI between the City and its Surrounding Region (Architects - Rome)Presentation of the conference and of the European Laura GENOVESE project "Water shapes" (CNR - ICVBC - Rome) 18.00 - 19.30 SESSION VHeleni PORFYRIOU, Co-ordinator of the European project WATER AND THE FORMS OF CULTURAL (CNR - ICVBC - Rome) 15.30 - 16.30 SESSION III PROMOTION OF THE WATER SHAPES PROJECT HYDRAULIC SYTEMS IN SACRED AREAS Chairman: Heleni PORFYRIOU (CNR - ICVBC - Rome) 11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break Chairman: Nicolaos TSONIOTIS (1st Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities - Athens) Cataloging, fruition, dissemination: 11.30 - 13.00 SESSION I possible Solutions. WATER AND FORMS OF COMMUNICATION Hydraulic Systems in the Archaeological Sites of Inca (Perù) Alessandro DEI, Lisa TAVARNESI Chairman: Attilio PETRUCCIOLI (Politecnico di Bari) José Alejandro BELTRÁN-CABALLERO, Ricardo MAR MEDINA (Studio 21 Graphic and Multimedia Design snc - Siena) (Universitat “Rovira i Virgili” de Tarragona - ES) The Portus Project Photography contest and prize-giving ceremony Simon KEAY Petras ancient Water System. (University of Southampton - UK) Research and Restoration directed towards the Presentation of the books Roberta CASCINO, Stephen KAY Conservation of the Architectural Heritage Ana COSTA, Lluís PALAHÍ GRIMAL, David VIVÓ (eds.), (The British School at Rome) Roberto GABRIELLI, Andrea ANGELINI AQUAE SACRAE. Agua y sacralidad en la (CNR - Istituto per le Tecnologie applicate antigüedad, Girona 2012Qingkou Engineering Heritage on the Grand Canal ai Beni Culturali - Rome) Bing YU Roberto FRANCHI Laura GENOVESE, (Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage) (Università di Urbino) La strategia dellacqua tra tardo-antico e medioevo. Il caso Campania, Roma 2012Toulouse and its Waterways. An Urban Construction The Sacred Dimension of Water in Antiquity: the Françoise BLANC Case studies of Girona and Tarraco Artistic performance "The spectacle of water"(École Nationale Supérieure dArchitecture de Toulouse - FR) Lluís PALAHÍ GRIMAL (Universitat de Girona - ES) 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch Ricardo MAR MEDINA (Universitat “Rovira i Virgili” de Tarragona - ES)

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