100Thousand Gardens of Sicily 23rd-25th October 2009 Catania

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100Thousand Gardens of Sicily 23rd-25th October 2009 Catania

General program (pdf - 160 Kb)

Conference "100Thousand Gardens of Sicily. Between history, tradition and innovation"

Friday 23rd October 2009 (9:00-18:30) Centro Fieristico "Lee Ciminiere", Viale Africa Catania

Moderator Paolo Villa AIAPP National President.
Speakers: authorities, landscape designers, representatives of the associations and groups.
Scientific Committee: Co-ordinator Paolo Villa, Antonino Attardo (AIAPP), Giuseppe Barbera (University of Palermo), Antonella Bondì (AIAPP), Agata Buscemi (landscape architect), Giulia De Angelis (Presid. Section Magna Grecia AIAPP), Antonino Failla (University of Catania), Biagio Guccione (AIAPP), Giovanni Licari (Greenery Technician ), Claire Littlewood (AIAPP), Agata Milazzo (ANAB Catania), Uta Mulhmann Zorzi (landscape architect), Daniela Romano (University of Catania).

The contributions presented by the speakers during the conference will be summarized by a final Round Table: the Scientific Committee together with the authoritative voices of organizations, orders, associations representatives and journalists will discuss the most significant points emerged from the work of the day. Ideas, experiences and ideas will be gathered in the Atlas of Sicilian Gardens: a set of annotations in evolution.

Conference contents (pdf - 147 Kb)

Application for the conference

The application for the conference, the exhibition and facilities is free. The participation to the conference is free and open to anyone up to a maximum of 200 participants.

Conference inscription form (pdf - 153 Kb)
Conference inscription form online (closed: further inscriptions at the conference)

Project and garden exhibition

The projects and gardens exhibition offers a journey into a Sicilian garden and a professional comparison through the experience of the projects.
Have you designed or implemented a beautiful garden? Do you know any garden that could represent a model, or contains a valuable contribution to be defined as a good example of Sicilian garden? Designers, Gardeners, Sicilians, if you think that some gardens are using the correct resources: earth, sun, water, wind, vegetation, landscape and space, tell us. Your contribution could take part in the exhibition, which will support the event "100Thousand Gardens of Sicily" in the 3 sections:

Historical garden: concerning art and conservation, the garden can be a small part of the original and it can be used with different purposes.
Garden of tradition: people, climate, materials, history, practices and customs, have deeply influenced the local development of some models of the garden, who are still living through the simple though characteristic elements. Old or current gardens or gardens to be built: tradition permeates through time.
Garden of innovation. There is no progress without change. The search continues, starting from the elements of history and tradition to achieve new results following new habits, needs, problems of the 3rd millennium.

The Commission constituted by the members of the Scientific Committee will evaluate the most significant posters according to these objectives. The posters will be exhibited from the 23rd to the 25th of October 2009 at the exhibition center "Le Ciminiere" Catania.

How to partecipate to exhibition (pdf - 214 Kb)

Visits

Each garden transmits the emotions that arise from the place, from traditions, from the passion of those who created it and from those who look after it. "100Thousand Gardens of Sicily" gives the chance of enjoying, the magical atmosphere of the most beautiful gardens, in the eastern part of the island.

Visits program (pdf - 158 Kb)
Visits iscription form (pdf - 147 Kb)

For further information and details write to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it - TAG VACANZE, VIA SOTTOTENENTE SCALIA 32,95037 SAN GIOVANNI LA PUNTA (CT) - Tel +39 095.7412094-7413587 Fax 095.7040948 - Cinzia Maggio responsible for 100Thousand Gardens of Sicily.