On Thursday, June the 22nd 2017 a study day will be carried out at the Milan Polytechnic, with the title:
ATVB Agip Tourist Village Borca – Understanding and enhancing Edoardo Gellner’s Eni Village in Corte di Cadore.
curated by Stefania Varvaro and Rossana Garbaglio.
Gamma Conference Hall, Viam Ampère 2, Milan Polytechnic.
Dolomiti Contemporanee will take part in it with a speech by Gianluca D’Incà Levis, curator of Progettoborca.
The study day puts the focus on one of Edoardo Gellner’s most renown architectural creations. The Eni Village in Borca di Cadore is definitely the most important work that Gellner had the good fortune of realizing as per the unyielding will of Enrico Mattei, president of Eni and essential figure for the understanding of the Village’s design, and for Italy as a whole on the tail end of the 50s and the first half of the 60s. The Village represents, because of its huge scope, an exceptional field of architectural and landscape experimentation in a period of time in which architecture approaches the theme of the mountain as a wole, and interprets the elements of tradition building.
The study day will be developed in two sessions:
the first one aims to investigate the characteristics of the former Eni Village, giving it historical context and documenting its planning richness;
the second one means to tackle the theme of the Colonia’s (Eng.: summer camp building) reusage from different perspectives. The biggest structure of the village deserves a specific reflection for the relaunching of possible future outlines.
Programme of the day:
9.30 AM
Ilaria Valente, headmistress of the AUIC (Architecture, City Planning, and Construction Engineering School), Milan Polytechnic.
Gabriele Pasqui, director of Architecture and Urban Studies DASTU, Milan Polytechnic.
opening remarks:
Rossana Gabaglio, Milan Polytechnic.
Stefania Varvaro, Milan Polytechnic.
morning session:
Edoardo Gellner’s Eni Village, Stories, landscapes and architecture
chairman: Mariacristina Giambruno, Milan Polytechnic.
10.00 AM
Edoardo Gellner’s role in the history of architecture, Marco Biraghi, Milan Polytechnic.
10.25 AM
Edoardo Gellner’s landscape, Antonio Longo, Milan Polytechnic.
10.50 AM
The architect and his archive, Riccardo Domenichini, IUAV Project Archive.
11.35 AM
The social ENI village of Corte di Cadore at the VII National INU Congress “the face of the city”, Lecce 1959, Michele Merlo, Edoardo Gellner Cultural Association.
12.00 PM
From hundreds of meters to centimeters. The measure of actions, Amanzio Farris, La Sapienza University of Rome.
12.25 PM
The experience of recounting the Village, Davide Maffei, director
12.45 PM
projection of the documentary-movie Eni Village. A pleasant stay in the future by Davide Maffei, Imago Orbis distributions.
afternoon session:
The Mountain Colonia in the former Eni Village. I deas, studies and opportunities
chairman Michele Ugolini, Milan Polytechnic.
2:15 PM
The Colonia of the Eni Village, a heritage to discover, Rossana Gabaglio, Milan Polytechnic.
2:40 PM
New identities for Edoardo Gellner’s Colonia, Stefania Varvaro, Milan Polytechnic.
3:05 PM
Guests at Gellner’s, Enrico Scaramellini, Milan Polytechnic.
3:30 PM
Tutelage: tools and issues, Luigi Girardini, MiBACT regional secretary for the Veneto Region.
3:55 PM
The enhancement and tutelage of the 20th century’s architecture through a regional territorial and landscape vision, Franco Alberti, Veneto Region – Strategic Territorial Planning – Cartography
4:20 PM
Progettoborca, a cultural architecture and a platform of regeneration in Corte di Cadore, Gianluca D’Incà Levis, Dolomiti Contemporanee, Progettoborca.
4:45 PM
Gellner and after Gellner: activities and projects of the Edoardo Gellner Cultural Association, Michele Merlo, Edoardo Gellner Cultural Association.
5:15 PM
Round Table, with remarks from:
Maurizio Boriani, Milan Polytechnic.
Francesca Bonfante, Milan Polytechnic.
Laura Montedoro, Milan Polytechnic.
Lorenza Petrini, Milan Polytechnic.
