Ongoing International Projects
TOOL QUIZ Employability and knowledge based economy : tools for
innovative culture
Six regional authorities wanted to go further
in addressing the challenges of an innovative issue: human capital in a
knowledge-based economy. The cultural and creative sector is a key one in this
framework. As an important source of new jobs, it is indeed a
knowledge-intensive sector strongly linked to creativity, innovation and ICT.
Moreover, it favours the development of new
skills closely related to employability in a knowledge-based economy.
Including new partners (technical, scientific
and political experts), the Tool Quiz project aims to develop strategies,
policies and tools linking the cultural and creative sector to the knowledge-based
economy and employability in each partner Region.
Programme and Topic INTERREG IVC
Person in charge: Pierluigi Sacco sacco@iuav.it
SPINE: Energy
Efficiency & Urban Development Planning
Buildings account for 40% of the energy demand
in the EU, and even more in the ENPI countries. The building sector is
therefore essential to reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions.
Historical buildings, of which there are many
in Ukraine and the Russian Federation, pose a particular challenge given
constraints to renovation work that make it difficult to increase their energy
performance.
SPINE aims at facilitating the integration of
renewable energy sources (RES) and energy efficient (EE) technologies and
materials into the renovation of historical buildings with an eye to the
various issues and constraints linked to the preservation of authenticity and
artefacts in buildings.
Programme and Topic: Europeaid CIUDAD
Person in charge: Vittorio Spigai spigai@spigai.191.it
MACE — Metadata
for Architectural Contents in Europe
MACE, an European
Initiative is aimed at improving architectural education, by integrating and
connecting vast amounts of content from diverse repositories, including past
European projects existing architectural design communities.
MACE with the
creation of innovative e-learning tools will provide the community with
services such as finding, acquiring, using and discussing contents that were
previously had limited accessibility to small groups.
The consortium includes three content partners,
who have access to a large number of content providers, including architects
and universities dealing with architecture and design.
The project, reaching a substantial mass of
digital content will significantly impact the EU scenario concerning
architecture and cultural heritage, and will certainly become a landmark for
further community activity in these domains.
Person in charge: Vittorio Spigai spigai@spigai.191.it
Programme and Topic: Econtent plus CIP ICT-PSP
SID-Sonic Interaction
Design
Sonic Interaction Design is the exploitation of sound as one of the principal channels conveying information, meaning, and aesthetic/emotional qualities in interactive contexts.
The Action pro– actively contributes to the creation and consolidation of new design theories, tools, and practices in this innovative and interdisciplinary domain. While being advanced through a few sparse projects, this field relies on the COST – SID Action to strengthen the links between scientists, artists, and designers in the European Research Area. The COST – SID platform stands on four legs: (i) perception, cognition, and emotion; (ii) design; (iii) interactive art; (iv) information display and exploration.
These are each supported by the research and development of the requisite new interactive technologies. Due to the breadth of its application spectrum, the COST – SID Action has the potential of affecting everyday life through physical and virtual interactive objects, as today there is the possibility to design and actively control their acoustic response so that it conveys an intended aesthetic, informational, or emotional content.
Person in charge: Davide Rocchesso davide.rocchesso@iuav.it
Programme and Topic: COST- ICT Action IC-0601;
MIUM-TIE Managing International Urban Migration
- Turkey, Italia, Espaņa
Through conducting multidisciplinary
comparative research on international migration in urban areas of Turkey, Italy
and Spain, and initiating a dynamic dialogue among related stakeholders
(policy-makers, civil society activists, public officials, experts and
researchers).
The MIUM-TIE project aims to enhance an understanding of the
challenges posed by international migration flows into the cities of EU
"border" countries, as well as to identify sound strategies for
dealing with increasingly multicultural and diverse urban societies.
Programme and Topic:
Promotion of
Civil Society Dialogue between the EU and Turkey Project.
Person in charge: Marcello Balbo marcello.balbo@iuav.it
SSIIM UNESCO Chair Urban Policies
And Practices
Based on an international network of high level
scholars and researchers from different universities and research centres,
SSIIM UNESCO Chair represent an important arena for the production and the
dissemination of new knowledge on promoting good urban governance for social
and spatial inclusion of international migrants.
Through the conduction of multidisciplinary
comparative research on international migration in urban areas, the SIIMM
UNESCO Chair will make available to the scientific community, as well as to
political and public opinion, new information, reasoned overviews and dedicated
studies on the multifaceted issues international migration raises at the urban
level, highlighting the principal factors preventing and/or promoting social
and spatial inclusion of international migrants in different urban settings.
Visiting scholars, postdoctoral and
postgraduate researchers involved in the research activities will produce
research papers that will be published within the SSIIM-Chair working papers
series. The series is steered by a Scientific Committee t assuring quality to
documents that are published.
Programme and Topic: UNESCO Chairs Programme
Person in charge: Marcello Balbo marcello.balbo@iuav.it
ESLAND- EUROPEAN CULTURE EXPRESSED IN ISLAND
LANDSCAPES
European island
landscapes reflect past and present relations between man and his natural and
built environment, creating a unique biocultural diversity which is now seriously threatened by uncontrolled
development on fragile cultural and ecological systems. With this diversity
they contribute to the local and European identity and heritage.
To consider the
European island landscapes as part of our cultural heritage, including the
unique identity, diversity and values they have for European people, and to
provide tools to preserve and pass these threatened characters on to future
generations in order to make of them a sustainable resource.
The main project goal
is to improve awareness and cooperation on island landscapes with expert
knowledge, in order to preserve their unique character and diversity
which is rapidly vanishing, and to promote intercultural dialogue in
these disadvantageous regions.
Programme and Topic: Culture
Programme 2007-2013
Person in charge: Gloria
Pungetti gpungetti@iuav.it
ADRIAMUSE
The AdriaMuse project
has the general objective to strengthen the relationships among the partner
organisations to support the sustainable development of the Adriatic area
through the harmonisation of their actions, tools and policies in the field of
cultural tourism.
The ICT infrastructure set-up by the AdriaMuse project will support the partner areas in their
efforts for increasing accessibility to their own cultural tourisms offers. In
parallel new branded exhibitions/cultural events will be designed in
conjunction with other running pertinent events, such as fairs, sport
competitions, cultural and other events specific of the partner areas. This
will increase the number of events where heritage is shown to typologies of
target users not used to visit museums.
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Programme and Topic: IPA
Adriatic Cross-border Cooperation Programme 2007 – 2013
Person in charge: Luigi
Di Prinzio luigi@iuav.it
LIVING TOMORROW- An interdisciplinary project
on the future of European living spaces
Due to rapid social
change in Europe, many of the dwelling models that had been developed over the
past two centuries now seem outdated. Well into the
20th century, residential planning was concerned primarily with the building of
homes for inhabitants who, within a family structure, often lived and worked in
one location for their entire lives. However, radical changes in employment
(restructuring of working conditions, increasing flexibility, etc.), in social
relations (changing gender roles, tendency towards growing individualisation,
etc.), in demographic development (birth rate, migration, life expectancy,
etc.) as well as within the family unit (single parents, one-person households,
patchwork families, etc.) have led to the creation of new living arrangements
in Europe. These have resulted in changing living needs which
in turn require new housing forms and typologies. Despite having already been
discussed for several years, satisfactory solutions to these transformations
and their consequences are still rarely to be found. Moreover, the debate on
how housing models and architecture can function in a globalised 21st century
(in their concrete, material forms as well as in their impact on the appearance
of urban conglomerates) is still in its infancy.
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Programme and Topic: Culture
Programme 2007-2013
Person in charge: Giuseppe
Longhi longhi@iuav.it
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