CULTURAL HERITAGE AND SUSTAINABILITY

Anno accademico
2022/2023 Programmi anni precedenti
Titolo corso in inglese
CULTURAL HERITAGE AND SUSTAINABILITY
Codice insegnamento
SIE078 (AF:433039 AR:237560)
Modalità
In presenza
Crediti formativi universitari
6
Livello laurea
Corso di Perfezionamento
Settore scientifico disciplinare
NN
Periodo
I Semestre
Anno corso
1
Sede
VENEZIA
Spazio Moodle
Link allo spazio del corso
In recent years, new planning tools have emerged to achieve multiple goals to sustainability, and to manage the complex relationships existing within and between natural systems and human systems, especially in terms of impact by human activity over the environment. However, the anthropic activity has a great impact not only on the environment, and it also affects the conservation of cultural heritage. The management of cultural heritage requires a new quantitative approach, which considers all the elements as part of the urban environment. This is becoming a mandatory issue to be tackled by international and local administrations and heritage stakeholders: vulnerability is often assessed on a large scale (e.g., regional, local) and buildings, in particular historical ones, are not considered. In general, an increased knowledge about the dose-effect interaction with environment and the recovery of ancient habit of recycling may represent a compelling opportunity to safe the cultural identity for future generations.
The course aims to focus interest on human-environment interaction in terms of cultural heritage preservation for future generations and stustainability in relation to past and current habits.
Not relevant, although knowledge of general and inorganic chemistry is suggested.
he course will be addressed to different aspects:
- A brief introduction on how geology influenced the cultural identity, the local heritage patrimony and the human socio-economic development [2 hours].
- Mineralogy and petrography, how a mineral and a rock is formed. Minerals and rocks classification and recognition. Main physical properties (anisotropy, birefringence, colour) [10 hours].
- The identification of the most common minerals, rocks and artificial materials (mortars and bricks) used in cultural heritage. This will be particularly addressed to historical brick production and the rock types mainly used in Venice (e.g. Istria Stone, Verona marbles, Costozza stone, Botticino marble) [6 hours].
- The understanding change effects on historic areas, of the deterioration processes caused by environmental stress factors (e.g., high tides, floods, air pollution, rainfall, sea level rising, salt crystallization) on some noteworthy monuments in the city of Venice (Clock Tower in the Saint Mark's Square, Santa Maria dei Servi in Cannaregio, and others) [6 hours].
- The recovery of the past habits in the current green industrial strategies: the development of a linear economy is a real historical anomaly in terms of resource use, diffused in the last centuries. Ancient ceramic pastes testified the recycling of pottery or other by-product from other production activities and derived from different geographic and cultural contexts. Part of the today circular economy for building material production (also for materials used in conservation) is based on the optimization of new sustainable mix designs obtained reusing waste from other activities (the industrial activity of local brick company SanMarcoTerreal srl, Noale) [6 hours].
The general aim of the 30-hours of lessons is to increase student’s awareness and analytical sense in the cultural identity issues, from the environment as multi-hazard risk system (climate and microclimate effects) and from its interaction with the historical urban context.

During the course will be also organized laboratory activities (mainly macroscopic recognition of minerals and rocks) and the visit to the LAMA (Laboratorio Analisi Materiali Antichi) at IUAV. While some short fieldworks will take place in the city of Venice and they will be aimed at the recognition of rocks and of the main decay patterns on historical monuments.
PowerPoint presentations discussed during lessons and supplementary scientific papers.
Two tests during the course on Moodle Platform will verify the acquisition of the main course objectives. Teamwork activity will be also planned.
The course includes practical exercises (consisting in the observation, description, and identification of selected macroscopic samples of minerals and rocks) and fieldwork activities (in Venice).
The lessons and the supplementary materials will be weekly provided on the Moodle platform.
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Questo insegnamento tratta argomenti connessi alla macroarea "Città, infrastrutture e capitale sociale" e concorre alla realizzazione dei relativi obiettivi ONU dell'Agenda 2030 per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile

Programma definitivo.
Data ultima modifica programma: 28/09/2022