As part of the course ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION IV-VII: Designing Emergency: Relocation of settlements after the disaster in the Thessaly Plain, on Tuesday 1/4 at 18:30 a lecture entitled "Relocated communities. Reconstruction processes in Italy” will be held by Monica Musolino, University of Messina (Italy), in the attic.

The seminar proposes an analysis of the relocation processes of some Italian isolated towns following devastating disasters. In particular, the results of a sociological research centred on the comparison of case studies will be presented. The analysis focuses on the dynamics of material reconstruction, but also on the difficult mechanisms related to the identity and symbolic reconstruction of the communities of inhabitants affected by these processes.

Monica Musolino is currently Assistant professor at the University of Messina (Italy). She is urban and environmental sociologist and Phd doctor in “Theories of Political, Social and Communicative Institutions” (2009, at the University of Messina). In 2023 she carried out a visiting research at the Université Paris Cité in Paris (France), Department de Sciences Sociales, as part of her studies on renewable energy communities and energy transition in Italy. From September 2007 to June 2008, she conducted a period of specialization and research at "École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales" (EHESS-CNRS) in Paris (France).

Her interests and research activity include themes and sociological backgrounds analysis of urban space; urban, socio-economic and environmental transformations in the Southern Italy; post-disaster reconstruction processes; memory and trauma studies; territorial changes and globalization; cohousing and social housing; participatory processes and methods; renewable energy communities, energy citizenship, energy transition.

She is the author of many publications including

Territories of abandonment: landscape, ruins, and memory in a sociological perspective, in Oteri M. A. (Ed.), Lost and Found. Processes of abandonment of the architectural and urban heritage in inner areas: Causes, effects, and narratives (Italy, Albania, Romania), ArcHistoR EXTRA 13/Supplemento di Archistor 19 (2024), pp. 374-395. http://pkp.unirc.it/ojs/index.php/archistor/article/view/1015

Communities and inhabited environment in the socio-spatial reconstruction after a disaster: two Italian stories, in “Sociologia Urbana e Rurale”, 111, pp. 95-110, doi: 10.3280/SUR2016-111006.