programme: “the home we are returning to” – webinar’s concept and organization

client: INBAR

team: sophia los, gianluca rosso, paola de rosso (grafica)

status: completed, 5^th  May 2020

A conversation addressed to all the inhabitants.

The virus showed the frailness of our present way of life. The city streets, first half-deserted, then became occupied by animals, and nature started reclaiming its space.

Silence and starry skies, friendships between neighbours on facing balconies: suddenly, small communities became desirable to many. We think it useful to reflect on how we wish to experience cities and suburban areas. We wonder what shape should take a space to become suitable for a resilient lifestyle, the urgency of which is becoming apparent.

Webinar programme:

• Marco Guzzi – Poet, philosopher, founder of the “Darsi Pace” movement

• Sophia Los and Gianluca Rosso

with the participation of: Anna Carulli, INBAR national president, Marco Caserio, INBAR National Secretary, Cristiana Rossetti, President INBAR -Verona division, Federica Colpo, Estate Agent, Roberta Rocelli, General Director of Festival Biblico, Marisa Fantin Archistudio – Istituto Nazionale Urbanistica, Sergio Los once  professor of Architectural Composition at IUAV University – SYNERGIA progetti, Natasha F.Pulitzer, architect – SYNERGIA progetti, Marco Bussone – UNCEM president (National Union of Municipalities, Communities and Institutions of Mountain Regions).

programme: inclusive multisensory and multimodal communication of a villa of the veneto region.

client: istituto regionale ville venete, confartigianato vicenza

team: libero accesso/confartigianato vicenza, sophia los

city/area: villa venier – mira (VE), italy

status: completed, 2014

A Multidisciplinary project on the “visit for all” system for the Ville Venete Institute in Villa Venier. Creation of a multisensory and multimodal map. Libero accesso – Confartigianato Vicenza and Regional Institute Ville Venete. with: E.Cunico, M. Tomasin, F. Barufatto, M. Stocco. With the professional support of P. Barcarolo, Ca’ Foscari University (Venice) and Associazione Lettura Agevolata (Association for Accessible Reading). Presentation event at Villa Venier, 19th June.

Presentation of the Free Access to the Villa project at the Ville Venete Festival held at Villa Manin in Passariano (UD), 16th September.

Libero Accesso® is a project aiming towards economic growth promoted by the trades association Confartigianato Vicenza. The programme stimulates the creation of innovative products through a contest for teams who will follow the rules of participatory design, engaging end-users in the process itself.

This system centres users as per the principles of “design for all”: the goal is devising relevant and innovative solutions that are geared towards a broad audience, and as such, suitable for a large number of consumers. 

The multidisciplinary project on the “visit for all” system for the Ville Venete Institute in Villa Venier includes creating a multisensory and multimodal map.

The 2013 edition of Libero Accesso® takes up the challenge and embarks on  the creation of a “visit for all” system for a heritage site, thus responding to our consultants and social reps’ desire for better orientation systems in public spaces.

The shared goal of this experimentation is to think and interpret the Villas of Veneto as “inclusive spaces” that are open and responsive to diversity, comfortably and safely welcoming people with various kinds of needs and degrees of freedom.

The commissioners, represented by IRVV’s president Giulia Fontanella, requested a simple enough plan to be replicated elsewhere as well. The team prepared a multisensory and multimodal orienteering map, following the “design for all” principles, facilitating visitor interaction and understanding of the Villa. We identified several hypothesis and tools. Still, the central question driving the whole project was: who are the people visiting Villas? And more importantly, what are they expecting to see and why? The answer we picked as a guideline for this task was: the visit can offer the experience of living in the style of the Veneto region.

Presentation: Villa Venier, June, 19th

Presentation of the Free Access to the Villa project at the Ville Venete Festival held at Villa Manin in Passariano (UD), 16th September.

Project presentationduringthesymposium “Accessibilità per le disabilità sensoriali nei musei e in ambito culturale”(Museums and cultural sector accessibility for sensory disabilities), Ca’ Foscari University, 18th November 2016.

programme: “New place marketing for SMEs based in the mountainous region in the Vicenza province” – exhibition and seminars.

client: confartigianato vicenza

team: sophia los, luca fattambrini, massimo meggiolaro

collaborators: renza mara calabrese, matteo pollani, paola de rosso

city/area: asiago (VI) – italy

status: completed, 2008

The Craft Workers Association for the Vicenza Province launched a project titled: “New place marketing for SMEs based in the mountain region in the Vicenza province”. The initiative was backed by the Eu regional development fund to promote economic growth and entrepreneurship within businesses in the mountainous areas.

The plan included activities aiming at boosting productions and local source materials from the Asiago Plateau, particularly marble and wood. With this goal in mind, the program featured a small exhibition dedicated to this topic and three supporting seminars to get a deeper look.

The talks sought to bring private and public entities’ experiences in the realm of regulations and entrepreneurship to professionals from the sector and local organizations’ representatives, thus aiding the community’s economic growth.

Both industries, wood and marble, represent two areas with great potential for economic growth in the Asiago Plateau, but they are currently in a crisis. The competition is intense from raw processing, making it hard to employ local resources. The lack of syndicates limits the scope of shared policies, while the loss of identity of the cityscape enables the spread of incoherent stylistic features and materials.

It is not just about boosting entrepreneurship but also about acting to safeguard the environment by increasing the appreciation of the local materials’ specific qualities, using them in the community, coordinating and grouping the entire supply chain. This approach would help recover the historical architecture typical of this area, returning the Plateau and its landscape to its original appearance.

The exhibition titled: “Notes for a Portrait. Architecture in the Seven Municipalities” presents a preliminary examination of stylistic features, now almost completely gone, typical of the local architecture, to make them recognisable to locals and foreigners alike.

The implementation of incentives for sustainable construction in building regulations could affect not just energy-saving technologies, bio-compatible materials, bio-climatic design but also reward the use of local materials as an ecologic action (it would reduce transportation-related pollution).

Appunti per un ritratto – Testo

Appunti per un ritratto – Mostra

programme: “a state-of-the-art territory” – a multidisciplinary project for the definition of urban guidelines

client: confartigianato vicenza

team: sophia los, sergio los, claudio bertorelli, centro studi udine

collaborators: n. covre, e. lorenzetto, l. parolin, e. bottin, f. dal toso, c. dal molin, daria petucco, i. visentin

city/area: sr11 – Vvcenza, italy

status: completed, 2012

To mark the new provincial urban plan, Confartigianato commissioned a pilot project to devise strategic guidelines for sustainable environmental, entrepreneurial and urban development. The Regional Road 11, as a case study, is the only portion of territory for which the Provincial Plan has considered a dedicated masterplan. 

actions:

– Pursuing the multifunctionality of the land while gradually weakening the market street quality.

– Seeing the SR11 territory no longer as a linear element of separation but a sequence of nodes. The act of giving it back to the dimension of living, or in other words, “re-integrating” it into the wider environment to which it belongs.

– Re-building a latent landscape through the continually balanced inter-relation between human settlement systems and agropolitan and periurban agricultural systems.

– Granting agricultural territories and their related activities a fundamental role (currently very limited) in the process of land re-qualification.

– The substantial collaboration between municipalities and the constant involvement of social actors.

– Activating strategic planning tools across municipalities while evaluating the use of the new set of instruments as provided by the regional law 11/04 (equalisation, credit and compensation). 

Presentation at the Villa Cordellina Lombardi.