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The article addresses the contemporary debate on urban and environmental regeneration, investigating the need to establish new criteria to implement the defence of coastal ecosystems by climate problems. The research looks at coastal vulnerabilities, starting with the environmental fragility of flooding, as an opportunity to regenerate waterfront ecosystems. The research aim concerns the analysis of US advanced regeneration practices to learn and transfer the principles derived from them to the European context. This transferability takes place through the construction of regeneration criteria for the coastal ecosystems rebalancing. The regeneration criteria are resulted from an ecosystem reading of the winning projects of the Rebuild by Design competition. These practices represent in the scientific literature an exceptional example of a holistic response to the problem of post-disaster intervention. These cases offer an integrated response in terms of processes, investments, the duration of the design and realization. In addition, these cases simultaneously address multiple vulnerabilities, making it possible to extrapolate from their analysis specific directions to replicate in contexts where even just one of the critical issues exist. The methodological analyses exploit the focus emerged from the scientific literature on environmental vulnerabilities, technological innovation, and stakeholder involvement. The results are regeneration criteria able to verify the appropriateness of ecosystem anti-flooding strategies. Comparing the results with the most recent US and the EU strategic documents, the regeneration criteria demonstrate their relevance and coherence with the international priorities as well as their potential transferability to the European context.
Francesca Ciampa; Stefania De Medici; Serena Viola; Maria Pinto. Regeneration Criteria for Adaptive Reuse of the Waterfront Ecosystem: Learning from the US Case Study to Improve European Approach. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4156 .
AMA StyleFrancesca Ciampa, Stefania De Medici, Serena Viola, Maria Pinto. Regeneration Criteria for Adaptive Reuse of the Waterfront Ecosystem: Learning from the US Case Study to Improve European Approach. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (8):4156.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrancesca Ciampa; Stefania De Medici; Serena Viola; Maria Pinto. 2021. "Regeneration Criteria for Adaptive Reuse of the Waterfront Ecosystem: Learning from the US Case Study to Improve European Approach." Sustainability 13, no. 8: 4156.
The paper debates the results of a research carried out by the Department of Architecture of the University of Naples “Federico II” (DiARC), as part of the Creative Europe 2018 Artists in Architecture, Re-activating modern European houses program (entitled EACEA 32/2017 and EACEA 35/2017; scientific coordinator: Maria Rita Pinto; project manager: Serena Viola). The research investigates the relationships between creativity and sharing as tools of a new form of social sustainability. These elements can induce positive effects on the settlement qualities of the places, acting as engines of the custody of the settlement values and the collaborative regeneration of the built environment. The methodology is based on participatory approaches able to restore the levels of cohesion, care, and creativity that the experimentation typology of the Artists Residencies is able to trigger on the territory and on the communities who inhabit it. The results return in the form of the complex process of the artist exhibition reception a significant strategy of sustainable development, capable of influencing the community by entrusting it with the role of custodian of the existing heritage and of renewing local entrepreneurship with innovative productions.
Maria Pinto; Serena Viola; Anna Onesti; Francesca Ciampa. Artists Residencies, Challenges and Opportunities for Communities’ Empowerment and Heritage Regeneration. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9651 .
AMA StyleMaria Pinto, Serena Viola, Anna Onesti, Francesca Ciampa. Artists Residencies, Challenges and Opportunities for Communities’ Empowerment and Heritage Regeneration. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (22):9651.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaria Pinto; Serena Viola; Anna Onesti; Francesca Ciampa. 2020. "Artists Residencies, Challenges and Opportunities for Communities’ Empowerment and Heritage Regeneration." Sustainability 12, no. 22: 9651.
The built environment faces challenges in all three dimensions of sustainable development—economic, social, and environmental. The increasing loss of functionality is a cross-sectional issue affecting buildings and settlements and their layering of social, spatial, and cultural processes. Based on a critical review, this paper aims to bridge the gap between international charters and ongoing research for built environments losing their original uses. Three emerging challenges to sustainability in repurposing are outlined from the debate, checking their incidence on research: (a) values preservation, (b) resources optimization, (c) systems effectiveness promotion. Experiences of conversion and regeneration in Japan, the Netherlands, Australia, Hong Kong City, and the USA are taken into account with the aim of comparing approaches, methods, and results. The discussion highlights three key entry points for future research on built environments: (1) communities involvement: new alliances between stakeholders, (2) the potential of technologies: combining resources’ protection and affordability, and (3) renewed productivity to preserve values and uses.
Serena Viola; Donatella Diano. Repurposing the Built Environment: Emerging Challenges and Key Entry Points for Future Research. Sustainability 2019, 11, 4669 .
AMA StyleSerena Viola, Donatella Diano. Repurposing the Built Environment: Emerging Challenges and Key Entry Points for Future Research. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (17):4669.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSerena Viola; Donatella Diano. 2019. "Repurposing the Built Environment: Emerging Challenges and Key Entry Points for Future Research." Sustainability 11, no. 17: 4669.
Regeneration processes activate stable regimes of interaction and interdependence among the architectural, economic, cultural and social sub-systems in settlements. The thesis of this paper is that in order to progress towards sustainable and inclusive cities, urban governance should widen the decision-making arena, promoting virtuous circular dynamics based on knowledge transfer, strategic decision making and stakeholders’ engagement. The historic urban landscape is a privileged la b for this purpose. The paper adapts the Triple-Helix model of knowledge-industry-government relationships to interpret the unexpected regimes of interaction between Local Authority and Cultural Heritage Assets triggered in the late 90es by the establishment of a knowledge provider such as a Faculty of Architecture in the highly degraded heritage context of the city of Syracuse, Italy. Following this approach, the authors explain the urban regeneration happened over the last 20 years in the port city of Syracuse, based on knowledge sharing and resources’ protection that promoted processes of social engagement and institutional empowerment for both new residents and entrepreneurs.
Stefania De Medici; Patrizia Riganti; Serena Viola. Circular Economy and the Role of Universities in Urban Regeneration: The Case of Ortigia, Syracuse. Sustainability 2018, 10, 4305 .
AMA StyleStefania De Medici, Patrizia Riganti, Serena Viola. Circular Economy and the Role of Universities in Urban Regeneration: The Case of Ortigia, Syracuse. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (11):4305.
Chicago/Turabian StyleStefania De Medici; Patrizia Riganti; Serena Viola. 2018. "Circular Economy and the Role of Universities in Urban Regeneration: The Case of Ortigia, Syracuse." Sustainability 10, no. 11: 4305.
In 2012, the Laboratory of Recovery and Maintenance at the University of Naples Federico II starts an applied research with the Institute for Composite and Biomedical Materials - IMCB - CNR, of Naples. The aim is to explore the potential of a patented hybrid foam, Hypucem, as a green technology for the recovery of flat roofs in reinforced concrete buildings. Two green extensive prototypes are developed and tested to provide an adequate response to the problem of residential buildings. The difference between them is in the mode of greening: sowing before or after the on-site assembly, with overlapping layers of green, in the first case, and their integration into special pockets formed inside the panel, in the second. Laboratory tests verify the germination and growth dynamics for a closed-cell polyurethane-concrete foam and for open-cell polyurethane-soil specimens. Trials are carried out in a residential neighborhood realised after Second World War. During six months, the benefits to buildings’ performances, in both solutions, are monitored, highlighting the importance of roofs dimensions and accessibility. With a greater ease of installation and inspection, the open-cell polyurethane foam solution, accommodating transplanted vegetation, results more suitable for a direct involvement of users in ordinary maintenance. This attitude is fundamental in order to prevent any decrease in roofs thermal resistance due to the lowering of the green layers performances.
Serena Viola. Green roofs for built environment recovery: technological transitions. Journal of Cleaner Production 2017, 153, 592 -599.
AMA StyleSerena Viola. Green roofs for built environment recovery: technological transitions. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2017; 153 ():592-599.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSerena Viola. 2017. "Green roofs for built environment recovery: technological transitions." Journal of Cleaner Production 153, no. : 592-599.
This paper discusses the way knowledge and innovation can support the performances' implementation in ancient cities. Assumption underlying the approach is that the construction sector, unlike others, is sensitive to evolutionary innovations rather than radical ones. The future of ancient cities, is inevitably linked with the ability to reinvent new behaviours for spaces and devices, with the design of transition technologies, able to fit within a built system, previously characterised by high degrees of rigidity. To support the theoretical analysis, the historic centre of Salerno has been assumed as a privileged case study. The paper shows how textures, monumental complexes and isolated buildings in the real estate market, can become new dynamos of development, enabling EU countries to maintain a strong position in the global economy.
Serena Viola. Innovative technologies for ancient cities: knowledge-based transition towards prosperity. International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development 2014, 5, 120 .
AMA StyleSerena Viola. Innovative technologies for ancient cities: knowledge-based transition towards prosperity. International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development. 2014; 5 (2):120.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSerena Viola. 2014. "Innovative technologies for ancient cities: knowledge-based transition towards prosperity." International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development 5, no. 2: 120.
The acquisition and strengthening of principles of equality, democracy and freedom marked the approach of the Government of Canada towards the integration between settled communities, during the last decades. Several experiences have been carried on with the aim of promoting linguistic (Canada, Commission royale d'enquête sur le bilinguisme et le biculturalisme, 1965-1969), economic, social (Canada, Chambres des communes, 1971), and cultural understanding and Canadian values sharing (Canada 1988). With the objective of creating synergies strong enough to lead to a collective identity, natural and man-made environment have been assumed as an unaware driver of harmonization (Sassen S., 2010). Often designed as to become common ground among individuals, space has been taken into account for its attitude to host people in productive harmony giving rise to a democratic and tolerant community (Canada, Patrimoine canadien, 2010). Despite the ghettoization phenomena that characterized North American multiethnic cities in late ‘800 and ‘900, a pluralistic issue aims today the province of Québec’s. Here, the stabilization of an inner identity, among all the naturalized groups, goes hand in hand with a shared cultural, linguistic and religious heritage, within a framework of common citizenship. The study deals with small scale outdoor areas often leftover in the dynamic growth of city centres. Since 2002, the Municipality of Montréal (Sommets des citoyen(ne)s, 2002) adopted a protection and promotion approach towards leftover spaces. With the aim of creating a sense of community within an inter ethnic grouping, the City aimed at improving meeting places’ security, accessibility and practicability with dignity and without undue effort or anxiety. Spaces have been taken into account for their vocation in working as repositories of belonging and of sharing,managing diversities among individuals and encouraging mutual, harmonious relations between social groups . The paper, in accordance with the main objectives pursued by the journal (Sasaki M., 2010; Stolarick K., 2010) presents an interconnected view of the cultural, social and design commitments carried out in recent years. For this purpose, it adopts an inductive research method, aimed at the analysis of interculturalism and public spaces management, referring of on one hand, to three small areas taken as case studies, and on the other, to the principles set out in technical documents produced by the Municipality of Montreal. The attitude of outdoor spaces to promote intercultural sharing, is reinterpreted through the discussion of needs and requirements that at a municipal level have informed the design choices, and the detailed analysis of the performances offered by spatial and constructive solutions
Serena Viola. Intercultural welcoming spaces in Montréal. City, Culture and Society 2012, 3, 141 -149.
AMA StyleSerena Viola. Intercultural welcoming spaces in Montréal. City, Culture and Society. 2012; 3 (2):141-149.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSerena Viola. 2012. "Intercultural welcoming spaces in Montréal." City, Culture and Society 3, no. 2: 141-149.
An Italian researcher, sponsored by the Canadian Studies Faculty Research Program of Canadian Foreign Affairs, investigated the social, economic, and developmental consequences of the urban and architectural renewal initiatives undertaken in Montreal during the last ten years. The study looked at the satisfaction levels of new users of outdoor squares and walkways to evaluate the effectiveness of the preservation, promotion, and integration processes applied to public spaces in response to the challenges of creating a pedestrian culture reflective of contemporary vitality and multiculturalism. Traditionally, open spaces have helped shape the identity of built environments from a technical and constructive perspective while taking into account social and economic dynamics. A review of written documents on the evolution of Montreal's urban spaces suggests that the built environment has become a development driver in the active progress of identity preservation. The squares and walkways, the two elements that epitomize the community's heritage and symbolize its identity, were studied in order to unearth their cultural and imagery value and to understand how they combine individual interests with social values. Un chercheur italien, titulaire de la Bourse de recherche en études canadiennes des Affaires étrangères Canada, a étudié les conséquences sociales, économiques et environnementales des initiatives de renouvellement architectural et urbain entreprises à Montréal au cours des dix dernières années. Il a examiné les niveaux de satisfaction de nouveaux usagers des places et des allées extérieures pour évaluer l’efficacité des processus de préservation, de promotion et d’intégration des espaces publics visant à créer une culture pédestre qui reflète la vitalité et le multiculturalisme contemporains. En général, les espaces ouverts ont contribué à façonner l’identité des environnements bâtis d’un point de vue technique et architectural, tout en tenant compte de la dynamique sociale et économique. Une revue des documents écrits sur l’évolution des espaces urbains de Montréal suggère que l’environnement bâti est devenu un moteur de développement dans le mouvement de préservation de l’identité. Les places et les allées, deux éléments qui incarnent le patrimoine de la collectivité et qui symbolisent son identité, ont été étudiées pour mettre à jour leur valeur culturelle et visuelle et pour comprendre la façon dont elles conjuguent les intérêts individuels et les valeurs sociales.
Serena Viola. Urban Renewal and Sustainable Development Efforts in Montreal: Vitality and Multiculturalism Requirements from an Identity Protection Perspective. International Journal of Canadian Studies 2008, 197 -207.
AMA StyleSerena Viola. Urban Renewal and Sustainable Development Efforts in Montreal: Vitality and Multiculturalism Requirements from an Identity Protection Perspective. International Journal of Canadian Studies. 2008; (37):197-207.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSerena Viola. 2008. "Urban Renewal and Sustainable Development Efforts in Montreal: Vitality and Multiculturalism Requirements from an Identity Protection Perspective." International Journal of Canadian Studies , no. 37: 197-207.