Conservation and Enhancement of Monumental and Local and Heritage, matter and design

The didactic/professional experiences here presented have a dual objective. 1) To compare, on the construction site, the professional figures that most affect the planning and execution of conservation intervention: professors and expert restorers, young architects attending a specialized training course (Post-Graduate programme in Architectural Heritage and Landscape), architects in charge of safeguarding heritage. 2) To sensitize the local community to the conservation and enhancement of its cultural heritage. The two experiences have been held within the post-Graduate programme, one in the Monumental complex of the Staglieno Cemetery in Genoa (Spring 2019) and the second on the facades of Sanremo’s historical town centre (within an INTERREG project, Spring 2018). These ideas have matured around different purposes, including the priority to preserve cultural and architectural heritage, as well as training and sensitizing the community in general. The result was a fruitful collaboration between Local authorities, Superintendence, restorers, teachers and students of the post-Graduate school. From virtual reality (surveys, maps showing the state of conservation) to the material world: the specialists were invited, under the guidance of restorers and teachers, not only to refine their manual skills, but also to reflect on the meaning that an operation, necessarily limited to a small portion, can acquire in the most complete and complex conservation project (a part to a whole).