The conference reflects on agri and green
spaces, a new tourist resource in the city of
Bergamo. Both represent something peculiar
in Italy and not yet fully known. Green spaces
do not refer only to gardens or parks. They
can also have a traditional agricultural
function, as exemplified by vegetable
gardens, «roccoli», woods and permanent
grassland within the city walls. Such
patrimony - safeguarded in the course of time
by an urban infrastructure unprecedented in
Italy (the «Parco dei Colli») – represents today
the basis for a slow touristic planning capable
of reconstructing the discourse on the
territoriality expressed by the areas studied
and the resulting reification. The latter often
produces unique landscapes, outcome of
forms of stone and green architecture
connected to each other.
The conference is organised under the
international
project
“Centrality
of
territories”. The starting point of the research,
launched by the University of Bergamo, is in
the innovative concept of s-Low tourism.
Combining the principles behind a more
sustainable territorial fruition with the low
cost mobility, we are working on developing
territorial regeneration strategies capable of
With the support of:
activating sinergically natural and cultural
heritage not yet adequately valorized at
European scale. Such tourism could well
become an engine for local development,
generating income and employment.
Combining low cost air mobility with natural
and
cultural
specificities
and
local
competences, territories become poles of
attraction reflecting a change in development
models, more territory-and-relation based: a
model resting on the involvement of the
micro-business, the citizens’ participation and
an environmentally sustainable approach.
One capable of intercepting tourists, turning
Bergamo into an attraction (and a
destination) and not only a stopover.
The urban agri and green spaces identified in
Bergamo well fit one of the five thematic
areas on which the project is working. Five
pilot projects to them related are illustrated in
an exhibition area hosted during the “Agri
Travel & Slow Travel Expo”. The network of
European universities involved (BeauvaisAmiens, Cambridge, Charleroi, Girona,
Lübeck, Santander) will also be presented in
such area.
Contacts:
Tel. +39 035 2052210
E-mail: diathesis@unibg.it, Website: www.unibg.it/diathesis
Research sponsorship:
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Invitation to the international conference
BERGAMO
S-LOW:
AG R I AN D G R E E N S PAC E S I N T H E C I T Y
11 October 2014
Agri Travel & Slow Travel Expo
Fiera di Bergamo, Via Lunga – Bergamo (IT)
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14.3017.00 Session II
Representations of urban agri and green spaces
Chairman FEDERICA BURINI, University of Bergamo
9.00 Welcome
Opening speeches
MAURIZIO MARTINA
Italian Minister for Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies
10.00 Introductory remarks
STEFANO PALEARI
Relatori:
GLORIA BORDOGNA, Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the
Environment– CNR, Milan
Rector of the University of Bergamo
With the contribution of JOHN F. ALBORANTE
Sales & Marketing Manager di Ryanair
P R O G R A M
G R E E N
10.3013.00 Session I
Urban green spaces, a slow touristic agri resource
Chairman EMANUELA CASTI University of Bergamo
Technologies and agriculture: the experience of the Space4Agri
applied to Bergamo as a case study
VASIL MARINOV, University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”
The representation of urban green spaces. The case of Sofia
MARCELLA SCHMIDT DI FRIEDBERG, University Milano-Bicocca
The representation of urban agri and green spaces: the Japanese
satoyama
Speakers:
RENATO FERLINGHETTI, University of Bergamo
Urban agriculture preservation in Bergamo
CHRIS WILBERT, Anglia Ruskin University of Cambridge
Technonatures: urban green spaces in Cambridge
ROBERTO GAMBINO, Politecnico di Torino
Preserve and innnovate: the city and its green spaces
Debate
17.0018.00 Conclusions
JACQUES LÉVY, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Losanna
MARIA ROSA RONZONI, University of Bergamo
Debate
EMANUELA CASTI, University of Bergamo
Simultaneous translation (Italian-English) will be provided