The devastating earthquake that struck Emilia in recent years manifested in all its drama, with the fatalities representing the most painful consequence of the disaster. However, the earthquake also erased a specific cultural identity of the landscape, as it widely affected the countryside and towns, destroying scattered rural houses, monuments, industrial and artisanal sheds, and substantially damaging historic centers and productive areas.
The Laboratory operates at a multidisciplinary level and includes expertise in technical, historical, engineering, and design fields, bringing together the work of faculty, researchers, PhD students, and students.
It focuses on collecting scientific documentation on the destroyed monuments, creating maps of the area to identify buildings affected by the earthquake, evaluating emergency intervention techniques, studying housing units and new urbanization models, and defining the appropriate criteria for restoration and reconstruction. These topics outline general frameworks to be considered as an analytical foundation to enable a coordinated intervention strategy. The creation of this knowledge base on the earthquake's culture and the Emilia region's territory is available to institutions and local administrations.
Scientific project head for the Department
Matteo AGNOLETTO (Dipartimento di Architettura DA)
Lecturers and researchers connected to the project
Simone GHEDUZZI (Dottorando)
Rosa GRASSO (Dottorando)
Hanno precedentemente fatto parte del gruppo di ricerca:
Fabio LICITRA (Assegnista)
Lea MANZI (Dottorando)
Sabina TATTARA (Assegnista)
Chiara ZAVATTA (Dottorando)
ERC sector project
SH3 - Environment, Space and Population: Environmental studies, geography, demography, migration, regional and urban studies
SH3_10 - Urban studies, regional studies