23rd August - 31st August 2009
Faculty of Architecture  University of Trieste
Department of Architectural and Urban Design
Campus - Building H3
Piazzale Europa- 34127 Trieste


2nd International MeetingUrban Planning and Conservation Policies for Disaster Mitigation for Urban & Cultural Heritages

3rd International Workshop
Urban Gaming Simulation Design on Disaster
Mitigation for Cultural Heritages

JSPS International Training Program (ITP)
The Second International
Collaborative Seminar





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University of Trieste / Italy
University of Sassari / Italy
Ritsumeikan University / Japan
Thammasat University / Thailand



In cooperation with
UNESCAP, UNESCO, UNISDR

Associated with
ISAGA / JASAG / ISS-ISAGA Summer School

Supported by
JSPS International Training Program (ITP)
Global On - Site Training Program for Young
Researchers on the Protection of Cultural
Heritage and Art Work

Global COE Program
(Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology-Japan)
Ritsumeikan University

Global COE for Education, Research and Development of Strategy on Disaster Mitigation of Cultural Heritage and Historic Cities

THE FUTURE OF THE PAST
Bridging Gaps with Our Environmental Awareness and Behavior through Simulation & Gaming for Conserving Cultural Heritages under Risk of Disaster

Cultural heritages/cities around the world facing severe risks of collapse or disappearance caused by global-scale environmental destruction and our human activities. Increasing interests within last decades to global environment has contributed to awaken our sense of crisis on environmental changes and fostered understanding an importance of taking effective and immediate actions for conserving our cultural heritages.

Growing attentions to conserving cultural heritages, however, the "tangible" actions at the civilian level is still in fragile. Bridging gaps between environmental awareness and behavior is now become one of the most important topics for planners, architects, sociologists, psychologists, geographers, engineers and other experts on the conservation and revitalization of historical heritages.

The 3rd international collaborative workshop which will be held at Trieste, Italy is intended to combine the point of view of planners, designers and other experts on the conservation and revitalization of historical heritages from all over the world. Themes of the laboratories are: earthquake and flooding and their mitigation in urban cultural heritages under that risks.

Participants are involved in lectures, meetings with local population and field survey. At the end they will propose projects and gaming simulations developed under the guidance of the experts. All the results will care how to bridge gaps with our environmental awareness and behavior. Withal the meeting and the workshop serve the purpose to train young researchers, involved in the organization, to learn by doing principles and practices in Urban Design and Planning Education.



The urban planners’ officina
A new culture is taking form among planners. In this culture, planners should continue to embrace a close relationship with the political process and a respect for business, but without losing sight of equity and the broad public interest in the elements mentioned above. Side by side to this, it seems to us that a new cultural approach is also increasingly affirmed among the researchers and scholars, in the design and applications of territorial gaming simulations. To this new culture, we would like to give an adequate attention, to activate and increase exchange and confrontations between different schools and different national and international contexts.
The proposal is: create a device/tool or media to permit different “players” to be familiar with a “situation”, structure, system, problem et cetera.
Each team is composed by different expert knowledge, among them a UGSs designer.
During the workshop goal of the team is to explore the use of GS design as device, tool and media of urban analysis and design.
The process is focused in design process itself: designers are players.
The players must find a way to design a GS for a given topic, under pressure of time and work on a situation that has two main characteristics: uncertainty and complexity (data/metadata, knowledge/meta-knowledge, target/meta-target, form/format…).

Prospective Lecturers and Teachers
Prof. Paola Rizzi
Ms. Urb. Elena Besussi
Dr.Chaweewan Denpaiboon
Prof. Natalino Gattesco
Prof. Hidehiko Kanegae
Prof. Toshiyuki Kaneda
Dr. Tetsuo Mizuta
Dr. Silvia Rapicetta
Dr Masahiro Shirotsuki
Person form Civil Protection of
Person from Civil Protection of
Expert in environmental psychology or urban sociology

Scientific Committee
Prof. Giacomo Borruso
Dr. Chaweewan Denpaiboon 
Prof. Giovanni Fraziano
Prof. Natalino Gattesco
Prof. Hidehiko Kanegae
Prof. Toshiyuki Kaneda 
Prof. Paola Rizzi

Organizing Committee
Prof. Paola Rizzi
Dr. Patrizia Del Rosso

Ms. Arch. Tiziana Correddu
Mr. Stefano Cutuli
Dr. Tetsuo Mizuta
Dr. Masahiro Shirotsuki
Mr. Yusuke Toyoda

Mr. Arch. Lorenzo Cotti