Place and space

Memory is a major theme in contemporary life, a key to personal, social and cultural identity. Scholars have studied the concept from different perspectives and within different disciplines: philosophy, sociology, anthropology, geography, architecture, urban design, and the interdisciplinary “place studies”. According to Pierre Nora, places of memory or lieux de mémoire refer to those places where “memory crystallizes and secretes itself”; the places where the exhausted capital of collective memory condenses and is expressed.

IConA 2019 International Conference on Architecture is the 1st International Conference on the theme "CREATIVITY and REALITY. The art of building the future cities" to be held in Rome at Sapienza Faculty of Architecture, Piazza Borghese 9, on the 18th and 19th December 2019.

The starting point for this inaugural inclusive interdisciplinary meeting takes as its point of departure the basic questions: how do we designate place and how do we delineate space? What is the difference between the two? The conference aims to examine the ways space is bounded or expanded to create place.