A public meeting to explore the current and future impacts of climate change, starting with coastal cities and communities, which are facing increasing and sometimes disruptive phenomena: rising seas and oceans, erosion and subsidence that now directly affect hundreds of millions of people. The life and organisation of cities and metropolises; historical, archaeological and monumental cultural heritage and urban landscapes; infrastructure and architecture: for many communities, these are already having to contend with the dangers of flooding, extreme heat and the prospect of further threats. The meeting aims to provide the most up-to-date and qualified scientific information on these issues and to examine advanced experiences and proposals for urban, architectural, ecological, technological and monitoring programming, planning and design to contribute to sustainable and regenerative urban and territorial adaptation strategies.
Second session: specifically dedicated to threats - and design, technical, monitoring and implementation responses - affecting cultural heritage; archaeological sites, monuments and historic centres affected by extreme heat and drought, as well as rising water levels and flooding.
Chair:
Francesco Rutelli
Speakers:
Arianna Traviglia (Centre for Cultural Heritage Technology CCHT, Coordinator), Alessandra Bonazza (Researcher at the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate CNR-ISAC, Bologna), Christian Hanus (Scientific Director of the Research Lab Sustainable Cultural Heritage, Full Professor Danube University Krems), Liborio Stellino (Permanent Representative of Italy to UNESCO and BIE), Carlo Ratti (Curator of the 19thExhibition), Marco Lombardi (CEO of Proger)
