International Conference
The Sense of Place.
Cultural sustainability
and regional development

Rome, Italy
Faculty of Architecture
Department of Architecture
University of Roma Tre
Via Madonna dei Monti, 40 

The overall Conference theme is territorialisation, to be understood as a process which links physical, socio-economic and cultural place-based conditions for sustainable development, encompassing sense-making and giving meaning to places through cultural practices, place identities, narratives, values and sense of place. The conference theme cobines regional development with the main topics of the Cost Action 'Investigating Cultural Sustainability.


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THEME
The conference theme combines regional development with the main topics of the Cost Action “Investigating Cultural Sustainability”.
This combination leads to four thematic lines, that will be explored in the key note sessions: 
1. Memory, identity and places;
2. The role of culture in place- framing and making;
3. Urban and regional planning: cultures and practices;
4. Territorialisation: challenges for policies.
These thematic lines will also be reflected in the Parallel sessions, as they deal with different COST book projects. International scholars and experts will be invited as key-note speakers either in Plenaries or to contribute to the Parallel Sessions’ discussion on the topics of the work-in-progress COST books.

PROGRAMME
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Wednesday, 10th April    
• 9:00 – 9:15 
Welcome Greetings
Mario Panizza | Head of the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture
Elena Battaglini and Anna Laura Palazzo | Local Organisers
• 9:15 – 10:15
Plenary 1 | THE ROLE OF CULTURE IN PLACE-FRAMING AND MAKING
Prof. Fiammetta Mignella Calvosa - Chair  
Prof. Anssi Paasi - Key-note speaker
• 10:15 – 11:15
Plenary 2 | MEMORY, IDENTIITY AND PLACES
Prof. Pietro Antonio Valentino - Chair
Prof. Graham Fairclough - Key-note speaker
• 11:45 – 12:30
Investigating Cultural Sustainability: progresses, challenges and future steps
Katriina Soini - Chair
Joost Dessein - Vice-Chair
• 14:00 – 18:00
Parallel sessions | Book sessions

Thursday, 11th April
• 9:00 – 10:00
Plenary 3 | URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING: CULTURES AND PRACTICES
Prof. Milena Dragicevic Sesic - Chair
Prof. Zoran Djukanovic - Key-note speaker
• 10.30 – 11:45
Plenary 4 | TERRITORIALISATION: THE THEORETICAL CHALLENGES
Prof. Enrico Ercole - Chair
Prof. Andrea Mubi Brighenti - Key-note speaker
• 11:45 – 12:30
Plenary 5 | PLACE-BASED SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE CHALLENGES FOR URBAN POLICIES
Dr. Raffaele Minelli - Chair
Francesco Rutelli | Rome Mayor (1993-2001) - Key-note speaker
Jordi Pascual | United Cities and Local Governments’ Committee on Culture - Key-note speaker
• 14:00 – 16:00
Parallel sessions | Book sessions
• 16:30 – 18:00
Special session: Food and cultural sustainability
Mari Kivitalo and Christain De Beukelaer - Chairs

Friday, 12th April
• 9:00 – 10:15 
Working group meetings
• 10:15 – 11:30
Plenary | Summaries and next steps
Dr. Joost Dessein - Chair
• 11:30 – 13:30
MC meeting with a light lunch 

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
• Elena Battaglini
• Joost Dessein
• Lummina Horlings
• Anna Laura Palazzo
• Katriina Soini

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Elena Battaglini, IRES, Rome
Anna Laura Palazzo, University Roma Tre
Giuseppina De Santis, Centro Einaudi, Turin
Luca Davico, Turin Politecnico
Luca Staricco, Turin Politecnico 

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACTS 
Website: University of Roma, Tre Faculty of Architecture 
• Elena Battaglini
Email: e.battaglini@ires.it
Email: elena.battaglini@uniroma3.it