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New book funded by the Marie Curie Alumni Association from an event involving Marie Curie Alumni in Rome: "Water as hazard and water as heritage"

Rome is an international city, with a number of academies of different countries which encourage artists and scientists of humanities to spend some time there. Hence it was possible to organise an international workshop, with support from the European Geosciences Union, on a much discussed topic of the duality of water, topic connected also to the research stay of the first editor. The event took place in the frame of the Spazi Aperti (Open Spaces) exhibition and the international culture month.

"Water as hazard and water as heritage: Report of the European Geosciences Union Topical Event in Rome, 13.-14. June 2016" Boştenaru Dan, Maria [ed.]; Dill, Alex [ed.] available in open access at https://doi.org/10.5445/KSP/1000076621  with publication support from the Marie Curie Alumni Association, supported by the European Commission, is a publication resulting from the personal international research story of the first editor. Maria Bostenaru Dan was mobile between the home country of Romania, Germany where she got the first degree, and Italy where she was Marie Curie fellow and postdoc (and doing a doctorate on architecture in Romania and Italy). The book itself is a result of this mobility, since funding was received while doing a Vasile Pârvan postdoc in Rome, Italy, but on Romanian funds at the Accademia di Romania a Roma, who also supported the event, from the European Geosciences Union, with headquarters in Munich, Germany, and the final publication was also in Germany, at the Alma Mater after undergoing some COST TD1406 mobility, but also mobility from Romanian funds and from the Marie Curie Alumni Association. To the European Geosciences Union the main editor is bound through the series "Natural hazards' impact on urban areas and infrastructure", running since 1999, and from which a number of publications resulted, the latest one as well as the one resulting from the reintegration grant being reported here on (the news are linked), but also some other sessions, including the Marie Curie Alumni Association run session on "Women in geoscience" in 2017, also connected to the fellowship. The workshop took place in June 2016, the month of international culture in Rome, to which the Accademia di Romania a Roma participated with the Spazi Aperti (Open Spaces) exhibition at its 14th edition, an international exhibition in frame of which the Accademia di Romania a Roma invites the artists from the other academies to display works in their spaces. The main editor also volunteered to help the exhibition, in frame of a certificate of international competence in Karlsruhe. The exhibition is accompanied by various cultural events, which included the workshop. More even, the workshop interacted with the exhibition having the posters in the space of the exhibition and a guided visit to it in the programme. The European Geosciences Union (EGU) workshop was an interdisciplinary and international workshop. It reunited researchers from archaeology, architecture, landscape architecture, geography, geology, meteorology, urban planning, history of art, history etc. Reflecting the international environment of Rome with its foreign academies participants represented Italy, Romania, the United Kingdom and the United States. A number of them were former or current Marie Curie fellows, reunited by a fellowship history in Italy. The workshop featured talks, guided visits, a round table of discussions and the launch of a book (the news on this launched book are also linked). The contributions deal with the duality of water, which has been subject of a number of conferences and projects, and some of the representatives of these were invited to talk. The geosciences approached the hazard dimension, which the arts and architecture related speakers approached the heritage dimension of water. The majority of sites talked about were in Italy, but included also European landscapes such as Copenhagen or overseas places such as Beirut. A printed version in full colour will be available at the same link. Prior to publication, results of the workshop have been presented at conferences and in journal reviews, in Romania and internationally. It is foreseen to launch the book first in Romania, probably in May 2018 and in Vienna at the EGU general assembly in 2019, maybe also at the Marie Curie Alumni Association annual event. Also the Romanian Architecture Biennale is a good occasion for dissemination.

Keywords

disaster, architectural heritage

Countries

Germany, Italy, Romania, United Kingdom, United States

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