Dipartimento di Architettura e ProgettoSapienza Università di Roma Director of the Department: Piero Ostilio Rossi Responsible of the initiative: Alessandra Capuano

Chaire UNESCO en paysage et environnementUniversité de Montréal (CUPEUM) Director and Co-responsible of the initiative:Philippe Poullaouec-Gonidec

Ente Parco Appia Antica Commissioner: Federico BerardiDirector: Alma Rossi

PHD in Design and management of theenvironment and the landscapeSapienza Università di Roma Coordinator: Achille M. Ippolito

Sapienza Università di RomaDivision IX International RelationshipsDelegate of the Prevost to the InternationalRelationships: Raimondo Cagiano de Azevedo

School of Architecture Sapienza Università di Roma Dean: Renato Masiani

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UNESCO/MOST/ MAB/ EDUCATIONPresident: Irina BokovaMigration and Urbanization Division of Social Sciences,Research and Policy: Brigitte Colin

Ministry of Agricultural, Forestry and FoodPolicies Ministry: Francesco Saverio Romano Director of the Nursery Sector: Alberto Manzo

Regione LazioPresident: Renata PolveriniCouncilor for Territorial and Planning Policies: Luciano Ciocchetti Department for Territorial Vigilance and IllegalStruggle: Patrizia Colletta

Provincia di Roma President: Nicola ZingarettiCouncilor for Territorial Policies and EnvironmentalProtection: Michele CivitaDep. VI Territorial governance and mobility: Manuela ManettiDepartment VI Ecological Network: Maria Luisa Salvatori

ANCSA Associazione Nazionale Centri Storici e ArtisticiPresident: Anna Marson

Ceramiche Appia NuovaFlorovivaistica del LazioPromoverde

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Sapienza Università di Roma with Università del Molise and Università dellaTuscia

PHD in Design and Management of the Environment andthe Landscape

PHD in Architecture, Theory and Design

PHD in Architecture and Construction, Space andSociety

PHD in Interior Design

Specialization School in Garden Architecture andLandscape Design

Delft University of TechnologyBeata Labuhn and Eric Luiten

Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'architectureParis- MalaquaisSabine Chardonnet and Alessandra Criconia

Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade doPortoFrancisco J. Barata Fernandez and Madalena Pinto daSilva

Universidad Politécnica de MadridJosé Maria Ezquiaga and Gemma Peribanez

Università degli studi di Sassari Stefan Tischer

Università di Napoli Federico IIPasquale Miano

Università Mediterranea di Reggio CalabriaAntonino Minniti and Renato Nicolini

Université de MontréalSylvain Paquette and Philippe Poullaouec-Gonidec

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Federico BerardiCommissioner Ente Parco Appia Antica

Raimondo Cagiano de AzevedoAppointed by the Provost to the InternationalRelationships, Sapienza, Università di Roma

Luciano Ciocchetti Councilor for the Territorial and Planning Policies,Regione Lazio

Michele CivitaCouncilor for the Environment, Province of Rome

Brigitte Colin Responsible of Programme MOST "Architecture andCity", U N E S C O

Alberto Manzo Director of the Nursery Sector, Ministry ofAgricultural, Forestry and Food Policies

Renato Masiani Dean of the School of Architecture, SapienzaUniversità di Roma

Anna MarsonPresident ANCSA National Association of Historic andArtistic Towns

Anna Maria Moretti Superintendent Soprintendenza Speciale per i BeniArcheologici di Roma

Piero Ostilio Rossi Chair of the Department of Design and Architecture,Sapienza Università di Roma

Lucio A. SavoiaGeneral Secretary of the UNESCO National ItalianCommission

Giuseppe Scarascia MugnozzaDirector of the Department of Agronomy, Forestry andTerritory ( CRA)

Rita Biasi Università della Tuscia di Viterbo

Gert Burgers Neederlands Institut in Rome

Lucina CaravaggiSapienza Università di Roma

Patrizia CollettaRegione Lazio

Paola Falini Sapienza Università di Roma

Laura Valeria FerrettiSapienza Università di Roma

Achille M. IppolitoSapienza Università di Roma

Manuela ManettiProvincia di Roma

Marco MarchettiUniversità degli Studi del Molise

Raffaele PanellaSapienza Università di Roma

Rita ParisSoprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma

Caterina RossettiEnte Parco Appia Antica

Alma Rossi Ente Parco Appia Antica

Maria Luisa SalvatoriProvincia di Roma

Roberto SecchiSapienza Università di Roma

Antonino TerranovaSapienza Università di Roma

Stefan TischerUniversità di Sassari

Fabio Contini Massimiliano GottiFederica Morgia Riccardo Salvati

Simona Casciaro Michela GuglielmiPaola FortunatoAnna Lei

Tommaso Picerno

Alessandra DiGiacomo

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Alessandra Capuano (coordinator)DIAP, Sapienza Università di Roma

Philippe Poullaouec-GonidecCUPEUM, Université de Montréal

Orazio CarpenzanoDIAP, Sapienza Università di Roma

Fabrizio Toppetti DIAP, Sapienza Università di Roma

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This initiative is settled in the context of a bilateralagreement of scientific cooperation establishedin 2003 between the Dipartimento di Architetturae Progetto of Sapienza University of Rome and theChair UNESCO in landscape and environment of theUniversity of Montréal. This project carries on aninternational research regarding periurban areasand sustainable development, which lead to theorganization of seminars and internationalconferences, as well as Workshops_atelier/terrain (WAT) around the world (Maroc/2004;Lebanon/2005; Tunisia/2006; Republic ofCorea/2007, China/2008, Japan/2009)

The project that we are presenting is inscribed ina broad reasearch outline of

a__ three laboratories of the DiAP: the LAGRATE Laboratorio Grandi Temi, the LPP Laboratorio di lettura e progetto del paesaggio, GROMA Laboratorio di Progettazione Roma, that since many years have focusedon design themes regarding the urban context and the landscape and on issues that involve from a physical, social and cultural point of view the territory with special regard to the metropolitan area of Romehttp://w3.uniroma1.it/diap/

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b_ the Chair UNESCO in landscape and environment of the University of Montréal isan international group that gathers researchers and students coming from 14 cities and 9 countries, with the patronage ofthe UNESCO programs MOST, MAB and WHC.The Chair works on issues of periurban rehabilitation and sustainable development.This international network of scientific cooperation has founded the International “Observatory of peripherical landscapes: cities and metropolis”, that has developed reflections through seminars (Roma/2004,Rabat/2004),conferences (Beyrouth/2005)and annual workshops (Reggio Calabria/ Italia/2003, Marrakech/Maroc/2004, Sydon/Lebanon/2005, Mahdia/Tunisia/ 2006, Ganghwa/Corea/2007, Jinze/China/2008, Kobe/Japan/ 2009).h t t p : / / w w w . u n e s c o p a y s a g e . u m o n t r e a l . c a /projet/workshop-atelier-terrain-wat

The long and complex story of the Appia Antica Parkis still in progress. It started with the firstarchaeological excavations of the mid eighteencentury and the reconstruction of the monumentsmade by Canina; the institution of the PasseggiataArcheologica (the archaeological public walk)established by Baccelli e Bonghi in 1887, butrealized only in 1918; the insertion of a preservedarea in the Rome MasterPlan of 1931.

The pressures madein the 1970's byAntonio Cederna andItalia Nostra, as wellas by SoprintendenzaSpeciale per i BeniArcheologici di Romafor the preservationand the enhancementof this wedge-shapedarea that stretchesfrom Rome citycentre till the Albanhills led to thesafeguard of the Ancient Roman Forum thatconstitutes the head-connection of the Appia to the cityand conducted to the first coherent project for thepark as a whole designed by Vittoria Calzolari in 1976.

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The protection of the 3.500 ha of the area wasfinally recognized in 1988, with the institution ofthe Parco Regionale dell'Appia Antica. The areawas later recognized in the new Master Plan ofRome as one of the five so-called Ambiti Strategici(the "Ambito Strategico Appia Antica"), which arelarge-scale coherent systems that give form tothe city of Rome.

Ten years after the institution of the Regional Park,in 1998, was created a management company,which, among different initiatives, elaborated aStructure Plan, still under approval process by theRegione Lazio. The endorsement of the Plan involvesthe realization and concretization of the planningprescriptions and the design of specific sites, ascrucial and decisive stages for the authenticpreservation and enhancement of this area.

Certainly a lot hasbeen done tocontribute to theenhancement ofthis area. Howeverthe territory of theAppia Antica showsaggression ofillegal occupancyand presents vastareas of decay andsocial insecurity.

The concretizationand realization of the Structure Plan and its formallay out are, at this point, crucial steps for the realenrichment of this area. Which are theopportunities of preservation, transformation anddevelopment that this Plan engenders?

The space of the Appia Antica represents for Romethe formidable and not frequent presence of anenormous void in the heart of the metropolis.Here, in this vast green area, very important in theecosystem of the city, ruins - as an aesthetic ordocumentation resource - are one (veryoutstanding) component of the urban context,which is actually a rather heterogeneouscoexistence of museum areas and residences,

tourist spots and city services, productiveensembles and agricultural lands, natural areas ofhigh environmental value and wastelands. A cohabitation where the land use and the limits of

the different functions have never been reallyrecognized or planned, even if the territory ismapped as a park on the master plan. Theconsequence is that, regardless the deepfascination of this area and the existing lawsaimed at preserving its integrity, it is difficult toacknowledge it as a park, because of theseconflicts and the difficult fruition of monumentsand green spaces.

The design and the management of this land - thatobviously needs to be protected for its history andprecious environmental qualities - needs,

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therefore, to be re-considered and an it is an aimto be reached, despite the land tenure that ismostly private. This case represents a challengethat only the project, together with the politicalwill, can resolve. The preservation of theenvironmental and historical values of thislandscape, enclosed in the urban area of the city ofRome, is an important occasion of reflection onissues regarding archaeology, agriculture andpublic spaces to propose exemplar solutions forfuture generations.

The intention of this initiative is to relate urbanarchaeology and urban design in a single overallplan to encourage an active use of the landscapeto:

- Promote the qualities of the urban environment;

- Go over the idea that archaeological sites arealways enclosed precincts, restrained from belonging to local identities, confined from social interactions, exiled in grounds that reflect only the scientific preservation;

- Overcome the alienation of the population;- Avoid symptoms of decay and insecurity of

voids and archaeological areas;- Include memory in the daily care of the

landscape;- Incorporate history and nature in a design that

embraces infrastructural networks, as well ashistorical and contemporary architecture, avoiding anachronistic separations between past and future.

This program wantsto encourage areflection madetogether with thecity institutions (theEnte Parco, theRegione Lazio, TheSoprintendenza peri Beni Archeologicidi Roma, theProvince and theMunicipality ofRome) on what itcould be a 21stc e n t u r yarchaeological area.

This reflection will culminate with the InternationalWorkshop, aimed at the elaboration of 12 landscapeprojects, able to combine in a unique systemarchaeological, environmental, economical, socialand cultural issues.

It is nowadays demonstrated that the notion oflandscape as public value and identity element andthe realization of projects focused on the qualitiesand diversities of a territory, determine an addedsignificance to the people.

The Program embraces the preliminaryelaboration of a Masterplan and the InternationalWorkshop_atelier/terrain. The work will focus on:

a) Compare, understand and synthesize thedifferent actual urban plans on the Appia Anticaarea and elaborate a Masterplan These issues will be developed by a team ofprofessors of the hosting institutions, togetherwith the public institutions involved and, inparticular, with the Ente Parco Appia Antica. Thematters concern the preservation of historicallandscapes and biodiversity, the urban expansion,the territorial identity, the quality of life, thecultural diversity, etc.

b) Develop 12 landscape projects for the Parcodell'Appia Antica Students and professors of 11 differentuniversities will carry out specific landscapeprojects in the workshop, with the aim ofopening a debate on the enhancement and theenrichment of this area for the benefit of publicactors and citizens.

c) Develop a multi-disciplinary considerationThis research project will involve architects,landscape architects, urban designers,planners, archaeologists, and experts onagriculture and forestry to develop amultidisciplinary reflection on the "creation oflandscapes" and on sustainability issues

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d) Stimulate a design and a development of theterritory that includes the notion of landscape Aim of this program is to convey to the students, tothe principal actors of the preservation andplanning policies and to the managers of theterritory the most advanced international debateon issues concerning landscape. For this reasonthe projects and the debate will be made publicthrough an exhibition and a publication, which willensure their diffusion.

- Phase 1 2008-2009Agreement with the Ente Parco. Gathering ofintroductory materials, focusing on initialorganizational issues, preparation of thepreliminary brochure, launching of design thesis onthe area.

- Phase 2 2009-2010Agreements with other partners and fund-raising.

- Phase 3 spring 2011Elaboration of the Poster Plan

- Phase 4 summer 2011Opening Seminar and Workshop: development of 12idea-projects, video

- Phase 5 summer 2011Exhibition + Closing Ceremony with thepresentation of the projects

- Phase 6 fall 2011/winter 2012 Elaboration of the publication and dissemination ofthe results

sunday june 26 orientation monday june 27 international conferencetuesday june 28 site visits wednesday june 29 workshopthursday june 30 workshopfriday july 1 workshopsaturday july 2 mid-review sunday july 3 workshopmonday july 4 workshoptuesday july 5 workshopwednesday july 6 exhibit/closing ceremony

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W o r k s h o pCalendarJune 27/July 6/ 2011

Final Jury

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b i o d i v e r s i t y Umberto Cao Dean of the School of Architecture,Università di Camerino Brigitte Colin Responsible M O S TP r o g r a m m e UNESCO Francesco Garofalo P e s c a r aSchool of Architecture, Università degli Studi GabrieleD’Annunzio di Chieti Franco Panzini L a n d s c a p earchitect Alma Rossi Director Ente Parco Appia AnticaPiero Ostilio Rossi Chair of the Department of Designand Architecture, Sapienza Università di Roma LiviaToccafondi School of Architecture, Sapienza Universitàdi Roma

The scientific results of the Workshop_atelier/terrain will be presented and spread at the end ofthe seminar through a public ceremony and anexhibit. The documentation of the work which includes thelectures offered in the opening internationalconference and the projects elaborated during theworkshop will be published in Italian and English in theeditions of the DiAP, with the participation of theinvolved institutions and patrons.

The results of this experimentation will be alsodisseminated through the “Observatoireinternational des paysages périphériques” of theChair UNESCO in Landscape and Environment.

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