June 15th – Vajont: re-action, design, resilience

Tuesday, June 15th 2021, 2 – 4 PM, webinar panel:

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Vajont: re-action, design, resilience

The International Artistic Contest Two Calls for Vajont was launched by Dolomiti Contemporanee (DC) in 2014.
In 2020, thanks to a collaboration with ETRAR.T.E., and with the support of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, the Contest was reactivated.
In March 2021, Two Calls received a Special Mention from MiBACT in the contest of the European Council Landscape Award.

And thus, on Tuesday June 15th, DC and ETRAR.T.E. present the panel: Vajont: re-action, design, resilience.

On May 21st 2021, the 17. Architecture Biennale of Venice was inaugurated.
Dolomiti Contemporanee is part of the Italy Pavilion; Resilient Communities, curated by Alessandro Melis.
The  DC section in the Arsenale is titled Dolomiti Care.
Inside it are addressed, among other themes and sites, the Vajont — with the projective vision we very much posseess — and the Two Calls Contest.
The themes of attention to sustainable issues, of responsible, social and project-oriented intelligence, of the necessity to create an organic approach of cultural ecology to the great critical themes of the contemporary, are put forward by DC with an almost surgical focus, inside the scope of the reflection on the state and destiny of the Landscape and of the Heritage, in particular when it comes to the UNESCO Dolomites‘ region.

Melis will, then, in this “blessed” webinar, discuss the “chrisms” of his research and Venetian exhibitions.
During the long preparation work for Resilient Communities we were able to work with the curatorial team and, in particular, with the group from the Portsmouth University of Architecture, where Melis is a Professor of Architecture and Innovation, and Antonino Di Raimo, a Reader in Architecture.
Thus, it was decided that we would put to work some of the students from the Studios of Portsmouth (Thesis Preparation, Thesis Design, Integration Of Transdisciplinary Experiences) on some of the sites which DC places at the centre of its regenerative strategy, such as the Corte di Cadore Village, the Italia Ski Jump in Zuel and, indeed, the Vajont.
The architectural projects developed by Portsmouth in the Vajont between 2020 and 2021 were about twenty: here they are presented by Antonino di Raimo.
We believe this international collaboration to definitely be a meaningful one.
After Two Call‘s young artists, young architects have landed on planet Vajont, they have thoroughly studied it, and have populated it with invigorating images and projects.
None of us has, indeed, ever had the intention of dedicating themselves, in this complex place, to commemoration.
Ideas  and shapes must always keep coming. Unless one deals in the mortuary business.

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Panelists:

introduction:
Elena Tammaro (vice-president of the ETRAR.T.E.)

Committee of Public Safety:
Gianluca D’Incà Levis ideator of DC and Twocalls, director of the Spazio di Casso at the Vajont
Alessandro Melis (Professor of Architecture and Innovation, School of Architecture, University of Portsmouth)
Antonino Di Raimo (Reader in Architecture, School of Architecture, University of Portsmouth)

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The panel will take place on Zoom, those interested in taking part should write an e-mail to info@dolomiticontemporanee.net or etrarte@associazionetrarte.it.

The event will be recorded and then made available on ETRAR.T.E.‘s YouTube Channel.

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This initiative is made possible thanks to the financial support of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region granted under the Regional law of July the 8^th, 2019, n°. 10 (Day of remembrance for the Vajont tragedy and of the Vajont Remembrance recognition). Indication of interest for the year 2020.