Towards UNESCO recognition. The ISA Schools of Art (La Havana - Cuba)
The five Art Schools built by the architects Ricardo Porro, Vittorio Garatti and Roberto Gottardi in the 1960s in La Habana (Cuba) are known both for their expressive power and for their ability to communicate with the surrounding environment (the large park of the former golf course of La Havana Country Club), both for the iconic and symbolic value they cover. Strongly desired by Fidel Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara at the end of the 1959 Revolution, still today they constitute one of the architectural complexes that best express the ideals of the time in the field of education and training.
The government of the Republic of Cuba in 2010 declared the Schools a "National Monument"; in 2015 they were included in the WMF list of 100 monuments at risk.
Of the five schools, only two (Dance School and Plastic Art School) are currently used while the remaining three (Theater, Ballet and Music Schools) are in a state of neglect.
On February 15, 2019, the Italian and Cuban governments signed an agreement to restore the “Facultad de Arte Teatral” (FAT). This agreement must be implemented through an international cooperation project funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation and assisted by the Department of Architecture of the University of Florence.
Session 8 of the International Conference “1972-2022. World Heritage in transition. About management, protection and sustainability” aims to open a discussion on the restoration of the Art Schools of La Havana, and more generally on the modern heritage in the countries of Central America and the Caribbean, where environmental conditions, materials and local construction techniques sometimes make ineffective the common and shared intervention procedures on the architectural heritage developed in other regions of the globe, making it necessary to prepare alternative solutions.
Language: Italian, English, Spanish
Program
18th November 2022: Full presentation*
19th November 2022: Short presentation* and round table
* An abstract of 2000 characters including spaces must be sent by 20th October 2022
Abstract
In order to participate in the conference, it is necessary to send to the secretariat of the Session 8 (patrimoniomondiale_s8[AT]dida.unifi.it) an abstract (in Italian, Spanish or English) with an indication of the objectives, methodology and results of the research. The abstract (max 2000 characters including spaces) must contain: title, name of the author(s), institution/affiliation, e-mail, 3 to 5 keywords.
Abstracts should follow the templates provided by the conference organisation.
Publication of the Proceedings
The texts in extended form (Italian, Spanish or English) must reach the secretariat of Session 8 (patrimoniomondiale_s8[AT]dida.unifi.it) by 30th January 2023. The texts will be published in a special issue of “Restauro Archeologico” after having been subjected to double blind review.
Contributions should follow the templates provided by the conference organization.
Dates and Deadlines
20th October 2022: abstracts submission deadline (max 2000 characters, including spaces)
31th October 2022: abstracts acceptance notification
30th January 2023: submission of full contributions (max 15000 characters, including spaces, footnotes and captions
28th February 2023: notification of the revision of the full paper
April 2023: publication in a special feature of the journal “Restauro Archeologico”, edited by Firenze University Press, which has been rated as “Class A” by Anvur (the Italian rating agency for scientific journals) using the VQR (Research Quality Evaluation) system.
For any request for clarification, please write to patrimoniomondiale_s8[AT]dida.unifi.it
Conference fees
Only for participants in Session 8 who present a paper and who reside in one of the countries included in the DAC List of ODA, the fee is reduced to € 20.
Ultimo aggiornamento
29.09.2022