As part of the course ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN IV-VII: Designing Emergency: Relocation of settlements after the disaster in the Thessaly Plain, on Tuesday 8/5 at 18:30 a lecture entitled "Earthquake and reconstruction. The case of the urban relocation of Gibellina” will be held by Angela Badami, University of Palermo (Italy), in the attic.

Earthquake and reconstruction. The case of the urban relocation of Gibellina
Lecture topics:

• Gibellina before the earthquake: the restitution of the image of a disappeared city
• The 1968 earthquake in the Belice Valley, Sicily
• Bottom-up popular activism and top-down State reconstruction
• Urban planning technique vs idea of the city
• The project for the new city and the urban planning variants
• Towards a new idea of the city: architecture and contemporary works of art
• The Great Cretto: epilogue of the city destroyed by the earthquake

Angela Alessandra Badami, architect and PhD in Urban and Regional Planning, is Full Professor of Urban Design at the Department of Architecture of the University of Palermo. She is in charge of the Urban Planning Laboratory 2 at the Master's Degree Course in Architecture and of the Laboratory of Analysis, Communication and Design of Urban Space at the Degree Course in Design. She conducts theoretical and applied research on urban regeneration, social innovation and the enhancement of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. She has conducted applied research for public bodies, including: the research on Local Cultural Systems, commissioned by the Regional Department of Urban Planning of the Sicilian Region for the drafting of the Regional Urban Territorial Plan of Sicily; the researchRisk Map at local scale – The waterfront from criticality to feeder of urban quality, commissioned by the Regional Centre for Restoration of the Sicilian Region. She is the designer and scientific manager of the European project Creative LAB–Alcamo, PO FESR Sicily 2007/2013. She directed the drafting of the Guidelines for the Colour Plan of the Egadi Islands, on behalf of the Municipality of Favignana.