20th november 2023
School of Architecture - Santa Verdiana
Largo Pietro Annigoni, 5 - Firenze | Room 19
9.30 Opening
Maria De Santis, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Francesco Alberti, INU città accessibili
Renzo Pampaloni, Comune di Firenze
10.00 Reflections on Universal Design Strategies
Antonio Lauria, Università degli Studi di Firenze
10.30 SMALL Session - Design projects
Chair: Giuseppe Mincolelli, Università degli Studi di Ferrara
Benches for all between Inclusive and Unpleasant Design
Valeria Tatano, Università Iuav di Venezia
Deaf people using elevators: a discussion about accessibility and safety
Elena Giacomello, Giovanni Perrucci, Dario Trabucco, Marco Costa, Università Iuav di Venezia
Smart and low-cost aids for people with disabilities: microcontrollers, sensors, and actuators for inclusion
Antonio Magarò, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
11.30 LARGE Session - Urban, regional and landscape projects and processes
Chair: Luca Marzi, Università degli Studi di Firenze
The accessibility and well-being of university outdoor spaces: design scenarios
Lorenzo Savio, Angela Lacirignola, Maria Cristina Azzolino, Politecnico di Torino
Age-friendly public spaces: how to properly assess them to improve their quality
Rosaria Revellini, Università Iuav di Venezia
An analysis methodology to evaluate the level of accessibility of in between spaces in urban context
Maria Michaela Pani, Federica Nava, Violetta Tulelli, Sapienza Università di Roma
12.45 Light lunch
14.00 MEDIUM Session - Architecture projects
Chair: Christina Conti, Università degli Studi di Udine
Prevention through design for SHAFE environments fall-proofing
Erminia Attaianese, Mariangela Perillo, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Outdoor juveniles carceral spaces: from research to design for well-being
Francesca Giofrè, Sapienza Università di Roma
SpInLAB: Inclusive and participatory design to promote inclusion in schools.
Elena Bellini, Nicoletta Setola, Alice Beconcini, Università degli Studi di Firenze
15.00 XLARGE Session - Organization and assessment process
Chair: Andrea Tartaglia, Politecnico di Milano
The NRRP investments for tangible and intangible accessibility in places of cultural
destination
Jacopo Andreotti, Massimo Mariani, Luca Trulli, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Enhancing cultural heritage through inclusion: the accessibility plan for the monumental
complex of the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. Results and perspectives.
Luigi Vessella, Mirko Romagnoli, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Accessibility analysis of a Southern Italian school building stock for multi-purpose integrated redevelopment
Roberto Bosco, Renata Valente, Savino Giacobbe, Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”
16.00 Perspectives of the Environmental Accessibility Cluster
Adolfo F. L. Baratta, Coordinator Environmental Accessibility Cluster (Cluster AA), Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Synopsis
The Conference's title is borrowed from Georges Perec’s Species of spaces (1974): the main purpose of the conference is to describe space by not only observing and describing objects, but also by an overview of gestures, habits and rituals that distinguish spaces. As the author himself writes: "Living is passing from one space to another trying not to get hurt too much".
Today, the importance of promoting people's psycho-physical well-being for different species of spaces that affect everyday life is arising more and more. This change highlights all those hidden aspects often overlooked or even removed, which, in fact, deny the accessibility and usability of both public and private spaces.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities commits all countries that have signed to "undertake or promote research and development of goods, services, and equipment designed for all" and encourages universal design in the standards and guidelines’ development for public and private sectors. The issue lies at the heart of the interests of a wide network of sectors (scientific research, production, local policies, associations, individuals individually and in relation to each other) capable of nurturing the culture of environmental accessibility that is revealed, every day and in every space, to be still absent or too fragile to be truly effective.
The conference aims to survey the ways in which the design of space, open to confrontation and disciplinary contamination, can unite and include people, places, and experiences. The aim is thus to foster the production and dissemination of theories, strategies, and practices useful for strengthening processes aimed at environmental accessibility, in a perspective of sustainable community development based on the increasingly broad and widespread understanding and use of spaces.In this sense, the call for papers intends to select and publish contributions from public and private entities, from various disciplinary backgrounds with the aim of returning a critical picture of the state of the art to foster and promote the integrated culture of accessibility for the design of all kinds of spaces.
Thematic sessions
For the conference theme, proposals for four sessions which refer to the different scales of the conference theme are accepted:
SMALL - design projects
MEDIUM - architecture projects
LARGE - urban, regional and landscape projects and processes
XLARGE - organization and assessment process