2006_april  UrbanWater

Grand Tour South Italy in partnership with Ohio State University. Urban research on forms of hydraulic civilization in southern Italy: Matera, Siracuse, Palermo, Trapani, Naples

past workshop

The workshop session opened in April this year with the WaterTour. The participants, including the students of the Ohio State University and their tutors, traveled by bus and ship in the south of Italy, through the territories and cities where water is a primary resource. From Matera, with its complicated irrigation systems, down through Sicily, with the main destinations: Syracuse with its centre Ortygia on an actual island in the sea; Palermo with Zisa an its Qanat underground water supply networks; and Trapani with its Saline. They then traveled back up to Naples and the Phlegrean Fields, and their natural thermal spas (Stufe di Nerone, Terme di Agnano…), lakes (of Lucrino, Averno, Fusaro..), the waterfronts of Baia, Bacoli, Monte di Procida, Pozzuoli and other sites such as the Piscina Mirabilis or the Temple of Mercury, thereby closing the first tour of water zones.

The workshop focused on mapping the areas visited. The students were asked to articulate the places they visited in graphic form and with the technical support of various tutors, were assisted in their formulation/setting out of an interactive-sensitive map onto which all relevant information was transferred.

pictures above: Campi Flegrei

picture right:  in the qunat of Palermo

pictures down: final review