In early February, Dr Giamila Quattrone and Phil Owen
@hugearchitects took 33 students from RE-heritage Studio to #Tuscany, #Italy, as part of “Vernacular Heritage and Cultural Landscapes in Lunigiana, Tuscany: from Knowledge to Preservation”. Now in its second edition, this collaborative teaching initiative, organised with
@landi2166 and
@paola_branduini Branduini from
@department.dabc.polimi and supported by Mulazzo Municipality, saw
@livuni students work on the same site as 16
@polimi students.
Working at the landscape, settlement and building scale, students will be developing strategies and schemes for the valorisation of the #culturalheritage of #Mulazzo, a small shrinking mountainous town associated with the #MalaspinaFamily and #DanteAlighieri.
The program started online with an introductory Colloquium (Denise Ulivieri,
@paola_branduini ,
@landi2166 , Elena Zanazzi and
@mat_vrett ), continued on site with guided walks and tours, site documentation, talks (Paolo Bestazzoni,
@panichigianluca ) and the opening of the exhibition of last year’s student work at Mulazzo Town Hall by Mayor
@claudionovoa_tosc .
Once back in #Liverpool, students presented their preliminary understanding of the site.
We look forward to seeing some novel design ideas at the interim reviews in two weeks’ time!
