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Naples, 7th December 2002
EXHIBITION-DEBATE
100 PER IL CENTRO ANTICO
On Saturday December 7th at 10 h 00 am
will be held at the Refectory of the Church San Domenico Maggiore
Vicoletto San Pietro a Maiella, 3 – Naples
the Exhibition-Debate:
“100 per il centro antico”
archaeology – art – craftsmanship – culture –
music – flavours – history – ties – future
…
10 h 00 am - presentation of the Photographic Exhibitions:
“”Tourism and the Quality of Life in the Historical
Centre of Naples”
edited by: Caterina Arcidiacono – Master on Models of Complexity
and Human Ecology. Instruments for Community Development –
Fondazione Laboratorio Mediterraneo, which introduces the result
of an “action-research” on the quality of life in the
old centre of Naples with regard to tourism impact.
“”Berlin Social Town” Management of the Quarter
edited by Heiner Legewie from Berlin Technische Universitaet presenting
an experience of social design, through participatory tools.
10 h 30 am – Meeting-Debate
participants:
ANTONIO BASSOLINO, President of Regione Campania
ROSA RUSSO IERVOLINO, Mayor of Naples
CLAUDIO AZZOLINI, Vice president of the Council of Europe
MASSIMO VILLONE, Senator, President of the Commission for Constitutional
Affairs
PETRA NORTHDORF, Responsible for Social Town – project of
Berlin town-
planning Senate
ENRICO GUGLIELMO, Director of Landscaping and Architectural Heritage
Service of
Naples
STEFANO DE CARO, Director of Archeological Heritage Service of Naples
LEONARDO IMPEGNO, City Councillor for the Historical Centre
VINCENZO ALBERTINI, President of the Association Napoli Sotterranea
LIA POLCARI, President of the Cultural Association Evaluna Libreria
delle Donne
FORTUNA PROCENTESE, MARIA ESPOSITO, “Forma” for Community
development
GABRIELE CASILLO, President of the Association New Tech & Old
Craft - onlus
MARIA QUINTIERI, President of the Association Artenope - onlus
CAROLA FLAUTO, Coordinator ONG CISS Naples
MANUELA CARDONE, Coordinator Associazione Subequatoriale di Suez
MICHELE CAPASSO, President of the Fondazione Laboratorio Mediterraneo
– Onlus and General Director of Accademia del Mediterraneo
and Maison de la Méditerranée
Well-Being and the Quality of Life in the Historical Centre of
Naples.
The inhabitants of the Old Centre talk about their Quarter through
the images and make proposals for the liveability and well-being
of everybody, both Neapolitans and tourists, pushing the local politicians,
representatives of productive activities and cultural associations
to exchange their views.
The hypotheses gathered will be presented in the form of an integrated
project in order to use Campania Region 2000-2006 P.O.R. funds.
It is an action-research on the quality of life with regard to tourism
impact, an impact which has remarkably increased during these last
years.
The interviewed inhabitants of the Old Centre are presented through
the photo-dialogue technique (Legewie 2000). The exhibited photos
show the places considered meaningful by the respondents, with regard
to their personal history and the quality of life in the quarter.
These photos represent the places which are more often mentioned,
either particularly beautiful and positive or ugly and particularly
negative. For each respondent, the assessment parameter follows
personal criteria. The respondents are inhabitants, representing
the more frequent typologies in the quarter, (student, craftsman,
non authorised park attendant, shopkeeper, tour operator) and “privileged
witnesses” of the relationships and needs of the quarter with
regard to tourism impact.
The aim of this research, carried out in collaboration with the
Offices for Tourism, Architectonic heritage and Social Policies
of the Municipality of Naples, is to become aware of the spontaneous
resources, to understand the needs and expectations of the inhabitants.
In particular, the exhibition is meant to be an opportunity for
developing the dialogue between inhabitants and Administration and
for supporting a bottom-up planning policy.
The exhibition falls within a larger activity of the Mediterranean
Laboratory Foundation, aiming at starting an experimental programme
for the management of the quarters and for making the social society
protagonist, by enhancing social participation processes.
The exhibition Berlin Social Town aims at introducing a participatory
design planning which may be a stimulus and a reference for similar
initiatives. The institution of a training centre for the management
of the quarter is in fact a further objective, involving teachers
and students of the 1st Master organized by the Mediterranean Laboratory
Foundation, as well as the working Group for the management of the
quarter of Berlin University and Senate.
Organizing Committee
Fondazione Laboratorio Mediterraneo
Associazione Culturale Libreria delle donne Evaluna
Associazione New Tech & Old Craft – onlus
ForMa per lo sviluppo di Comunità
Associazione Artenope – onlus
Associazione Culturale Napoli Sotterranea
Rappresentanza DS U.d.B. “E. Curiel”
Associazione Subequatoriale di Suez
No/comment – onlus
Monthly “Le pagine dell’Ozio”
ONG CISS Napoli
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