NUOVE ECOLOGIE TERRITORIALI. COABITARE MONDI CHE CAMBIANO
XXVI Conference of Società Italiana degli Urbanisti (SIU)
Naples, 12-14 June 2024
The 2024 conference of the Italian Society of Urban Planners (SIU) places at its core the new territorial ecologies that— with increasingly evident urgency—planning is called upon to help define in order to co-inhabit, in a sustainable and equitable way, changing worlds. This is a matter of absolute relevance, and the very use of the plural—applied to both terms, “ecologies” and “worlds”—already signals the relational, contextual, political, and environmental character required by the radical ecological positioning invoked here. A topic that has been central for several years in the debate promoted by the Italian community of urban planning scholars, it has gained further momentum following the recent amendments to the Italian Constitution, which added—alongside the protection of the “landscape and the historical and artistic heritage of the Nation”—the protection of “the environment, biodiversity and ecosystems, also in the interest of future generations” (Art. 9), and established that economic initiative may not be carried out to the detriment of “health”, and must pursue both “social” and “environmental” purposes (Art. 41).
The conference is organised by SIU – Società Italiana degli Urbanisti and the Department of Architecture (DiARC), University of Naples Federico II, in collaboration with the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design (DADI), University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli.