City of Dialogue
ACOPUNTURES, NOT ONLY AWARDS
In architecture - in cinema, in literature, in the sciences, in the arts
and so on - a "prize" indicates the distinctiveness of an author or a work: ambitious acknowledgments also because in the Jury called to attribute them, different theses and opinions are compared. The "Architecture and City" and "City of Dialogue” awards are promoted by two distinct organizations which launch them in different geographical areas: the former is promoted by the “Cenacolo della Cultura e delle Scienze” in the territories where the civilization of Magna Grecia was born, the root of Roman and European culture; the latter is promoted by the “Fondazione Mediterraneo” in countries overlooking the Mediterranean. However, they have similar objectives: they were born to stimulate integration projects - in the different meanings of the term- and to favour the formation of places of social condensation. They do not therefore have the ambition to point out perfect or exemplary buildings, but projects that bring gifts to the context; contributions to spaces of freedom, socialization, relationship, integration. Transdisciplinary actions that contribute to introducing new "places of social condensation" in urban contexts.
These "prizes" (with the collaboration of “Civilizzare l’Urbano - ETS) are characterized by three peculiarities:
- they select interventions that generate positive transformations, that is, that propose themselves as acupuncture
- they concern specific territorial areas and concrete projects
- above all they stimulate us to deepen and develop a specific cultural line
These two risky experimental initiatives, with uncertain outcomes but are full of expectations and potential, because they are aimed at articulating, and linking similar hopes for living environments and coherent human behaviour to the different memories of individual places. In the words of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, these "prizes" have the ambition to give birth to the desire for a different future.
In a sense these initiatives are therefore also a "manifesto": they indirectly promote actions that contribute to "Civilizing the urban" as fragments of "Contemporary Humanistic Projects" that lead back constructing to its primary purpose. They prevent interpretations that reduce architecture to very search for new languages. Instead, they stress interest in topological relationships, in the framing of form, in "building according to principles".
Naples
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08 October 2020
Parent Category: Mediterranean Awards -
Category: City of Dialogue
In full compliance with the rules of distancing and protection for Covid 19, the award ceremony of the "Mediterranean Award 2020" was held at the headquarters of the Museum of Peace - MAMT in Naples, which inaugurated the celebratory activities for the thirtieth anniversary of the Fondazione Mediterraneo .
For the "City of Dialogue" section, the special mention of the prize was awarded to the architect Francesco Scardaccione and Ishimoto Europe for the project of the Faculty of Engineering in San Giovanni a Teduccio - on the outskirts of Naples - for the degree of civilization of the work and the ability to create a space of relationships open to the city in which it inserts valuable functions.
The Prize was awarded by prof. Edoardo Cosenza - president of the Order of Engineers of Naples - representing the Rector of the Federico II University of Naples.
The reasons were read by prof. Eugenio Mazzarella, president of the jury.
The “Mediterranean Prize” is recognized among the most important awards thanks also to the quality of the juries representing 43 Euro-Mediterranean countries.
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Naples
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08 October 2020
Parent Category: Mediterranean Awards -
Category: City of Dialogue
In full compliance with the rules of distancing and protection for Covid 19, the award ceremony of the "Mediterranean award 2020" was held at the headquarters of the Museum of Peace - MAMT in Naples, which inaugurated the celebratory activities for the thirtieth anniversary of the Fondazione Mediterraneo. For the "City of Dialogue" section, the prize was awarded to the architect Vincenzo Latina for the "Environmental rehabilitation and restoration of the former Lampedusa quarry" project.
The project (approved in 2019) recovers the quarries between Punta Sottile and Cala Francese, proposing a place of hospitality and civil coexistence equipped for events, with an essential language poetically crossed by memories and suggestions.
The Prize was awarded by prof. Massimo Pica Ciamarra, a member of the Fondazione Mediterraneo director in the conception of the project, who speaks of "acupuncture more than prizes" and underlines how "the intent of the Award is clear because it seeks new urban intelligence inputs rather than self-referential buildings".
The reasons were read by prof. Eugenio Mazzarella, president of the jury.
The “Mediterranean Prize” is recognized among the most important awards thanks also to the quality of the juries representing 43 Euro-Mediterranean countries.
Read more: ...
Naples
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08 October 2020
Parent Category: Mediterranean Awards -
Category: City of Dialogue
In full compliance with the rules of distancing and protection for Covid 19, the award ceremony of the "Mediterranean Award 2020" was held at the headquarters of the Museum of Peace - MAMT in Naples, which inaugurated the celebratory activities for the thirtieth anniversary of the Fondazione Mediterraneo .
For the "City of Dialogue" section, the mention of the prize was awarded to the architect Pasquale Tierno for the project of the Urban Theater in Calvanico - (Salerno).
The Prize was awarded by prof. Pasquale Belfiore, member of the jury, who expressed his satisfaction with the quality of the project.
The reasons were read by prof. Eugenio Mazzarella, president of the jury.
The “Mediterranean Prize” is recognized among the most important awards thanks also to the quality of the juries representing 43 Euro-Mediterranean countries.
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24 October 2019
Parent Category: Mediterranean Awards -
Category: City of Dialogue
The Prize - with the support of “Civilizzare l’Urbano ETS” - attributes honour, but above all is born to stimulate transformation processes in the cities of the Mediterranean countries.
It is attributed to projects that contribute to marking the passage from the "culture of separation" to the "culture of integration". Projects that involve urban regeneration or even a single construction.
Therefore, it does not look for individual buildings that are perfect or exemplary, but interventions that facilitate dialogue and contribute to the creation of spaces of freedom, of socialization, of relationships.
The attached images are only for references, ideas, reflection.
24 October 2019
Parent Category: Mediterranean Awards -
Category: City of Dialogue
The public meeting for the presentation of the Call is scheduled for 10.30 on Saturday 11 December 2019 at Museum of Peace - MAMT - Naples Square Municipio.
A brief explanatory note is in n. 1/2020 of "Le Carré Bleu" - A travers la Méditerranée - freely downloadable from www.lecarrebleu.eu.
The images attached in the "news" on this website are only for references, ideas, reflections.
24 October 2019
Parent Category: Mediterranean Awards -
Category: City of Dialogue
Prizes are distinguished into two categories:
- implemented projects
- approved, but not yet implemented projects
are to be documented with no more than:
- 3 panels suitable for printing (A1 horizontal format, max 10MB each) containing data relating to the extent and timing of the intervention, graphic schemes and images, descriptive report max 1,000 words Arial 12, names of designer and client
- max 3' movie
Official languages: Italian, French, English.
The nominations - prior registration by March 30, 2020 (see facsimile attached) - must be sent by May 30, 2020 to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. accompanied by a release concerning the publication in any form of the materials presented.
