TRANSFORMERS Winterschool in Sicily

The Winterschool in Sambuca di Sicilia on 28 and 29 November 2024 is part of the DAAD-funded project TRANSFORMERS and organised by the Department of Architecture of the University of Palermo, together with the Chair for Territorial Design and Urban Planning @territorialdesign of Leibniz University Hannover and the Department DICEA of Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona, and in cooperation with the City of Sambuca di Sicilia. Venue of the Winterschool is Palazzo Panitteri in the historic centre, we thank the City of Sambuca for the generous hospitality. 

 

TRANSFORMERS is about the role and agency of cities to reach climate neutrality, combining this change with social and economic progress. The project focuses on the interrelation and dynamics between urban fabric and society and establishes a joint search for new transformative knowledge, for cities as laboratories of openness, innovation, and entrepreneurship. It builds on recent research in Italy and Germany and cooperates with cities as case studies and stages for new formats of open science in communication and involvement. TRANSFORMERS creates a space of European dialogue that involves researchers, professors, doctoral candidates, and students from Italy and Germany and connects them with interdisciplinary and local experts and citizens. 

 

Thursday 28.11.2024 

Welcome and introduction with Giuseppe Cacioppo, Mayor of Sambuca di Sicilia  

Inputs on TRANSFORMERS approaches 

Circular urbanism: Anna Pape, Jörg Schröder, Federica Scaffidi, Rebekka Wandt 

Architecture for Just Transition: Maddalena Ferretti, Benedetta Di Leo 

Community Making: Barbara Lino, Daniele Ronsivalle, Annalisa Contato 

Site visit of Sambuca Historic Center, Arancio Lake and Monte Adranone 

Working session 

 

Friday 29.11.2024 

Working session 

Public Conference  

Welcome and introduction: Giuseppe Cacioppo, Barbara Lino, Maddalena Ferretti, Jörg Schröder 

Keynotes: Oriol Capdevila Arus (Barcelona) and Patrizia Di Monte (Zaragossa) 

Presentation by the students 

Round table with local experts and citizens 

 

 

> More information about TRANSFORMERS University Dialogue funded by DAAD 

 https://www.transformers-dialogue.eu