Exploring the Spaces between City and Sea

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This seminar brings together international specialists to share their views on the current challenges faced by coastal regions, and to define strategies for a good city-sea balance in the coming decades.

Land has traditionally been conceived as a stable environment and the sea as a dynamic, changing space. Today, however, the situation of climate emergency has made it necessary to reconsider these shoreline spaces and question this dichotomy in the understanding that it is ever more important to think about this reality from the standpoint of constant interactions between land and sea. The coastal city has, in fact, always been a great space of exchange where flows of resources, people and cultures have crossed the territories between the aquatic and terrestrial environments. Likewise, now that they must deal with today’s climate challenges, the two spaces are also deeply interlinked.

As the distinction between land and water has become increasingly blurred, traditional approaches to planning in these spaces have also been changing to incorporate new perspectives in which the complex metabolism of shorelines takes center stage. They must now imagine new future scenarios in which sustainability and coexistence with other species become possible. All this means that coastal regions are a laboratory of opportunities for rethinking urban life in the future, and new, well-balanced ways of living and coexisting.

Exploring the physical, environmental, and cultural dimensions, this seminar offers insights into the challenges of and opportunities inherent in coastal areas. Local and international specialists will come together in order to recognize and understand common points, investigate complexities, and look at ways of overcoming the physical and cultural barriers at the intersection of land and water.

This event will be held in English.

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