Regional Risk and Cultural Heritage. Planning the Risk Prevention and Regeneration of Religious Heritage

The workshop was organized by the “Pianificazione e Progettazione” School of the Politecnico di Torino, during academic year 2019/2020. The workshop was coordinated by Andrea Longhi and was held in Turin and in the Diocese of Parma.

The main topic of the workshop was to investigate the relationship between regional risk and cultural heritage. The location was the diocese of Parma’s, characterized by a widespread presence of religious cultural heritage, prone to multiple risks (seismic area, landslides, floods, and hydrogeological risk) and to dynamics of rural depopulation and abandonment of urban settlements.

The workshop included a set of lectures on historical-territorial knowledge and planning, in addition to investigations and participative activities with local communities, with the aim of providing a more holistic understanding of the site and creating bonds between local risks and local perception of cultural and landscape values of the widespread heritage.

Year Book 2019-2020