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1. Subject Sponsored by Università di Genova, Facoltà di Architettura Regione Liguria Provincia di Genova Porto Antico s.p.a. Genova 2004 s.r.l. Consedil Genova Framework Programme In collaboration with SIU, Società italiana degli urbanisti, and Dipartimento Polis, Genova Organisation

2. Subject ICT, sustainability and governance are providing innovations in planning that concern education, practice and government. This seminar is intended to discuss how the scholars, the professionals and the administrators can direct their efforts in order to face the thrust for innovation. The main subjects are the implementations of the new technologies (as GIS), the change in the environmental perspective and the expectations of the local communities for decisions assumed on a larger basis.

3. Framework The Seminar starts on Thursday and ends on Saturday evening; it is divided into three Sessions: - Education - Practice - Institutions. Each Session has its own Rapporteur; Participants attend all the Sessions. Each Session takes half a day and consists of three parts. Part 1: plenary meeting; a speech is released by the Session Rapporteur; Part 2: three distinct workshops, all of them dealing with the themes pointed out by the Session Rapporteur and considered from the point of view of ICT, Environmental Issues and Governance The Participants are previously divided into well balanced groups (the members of the groups should change every Session, to enhance mutual acquaintance); every workshops is led by a Facilitator, already chosen (by the Scientific Committee) among the Participants. After the workshops, a separate discussion takes place in which the Facilitators meet the Rapporteur in order to collect the results of the three workshops. Part 3: all the Participants gather again in the same room; synthesis by the Rapporteur and final discussion. The Participants are invited to technical tours organised by the Local Institutions and Agencies (Regione Liguria, Provincia di Genova, Porto Antico s.p.a., Paco delle Cinqueterre); innovation in planning practices, environmental and urban rehabilitation, waterfront redevelopment are the general subjects of the tours. On Sunday morning participants and their accompanying persons will have the opportunity to visit the Cinque Terre National Park (whole day excursion). In connection with the Seminar, ISoCaRP and Aesop hold their Executive Committee meetings

4. Organisation Scientific Committee Sandro Balducci, Aesop, Politecnico di Milano Mariolina Besio, ISoCaRP, Università di Genova Roberto Bobbio, ISoCaRP, Università di Genova Vittorio Borachia, Aesop, Politecnico di Milano Giuseppe Imbesi, ISoCaRP, Università di Roma La Sapienza Paolo La Greca, ISoCaRP, Università di Catania Francesco Lo Piccolo, Aesop, Università di Palermo Franco Orsi, Regione Liguria Federico Malusardi, ISoCaRP, Università di Roma La Sapienza Paolo Tizzoni, Provincia di Genova Local Organising Committee Lidia Bisio, Giampiero Lombardini, Stefania Pilu, Anna Pisani

5. Programme Friday, April 2nd Session 2 – PRACTICE morning Rapporteur on practice Workshops – Parallel Sessions Conclusions (Rapporteur) Plenary discussion afternoon Technical tour: Genoa Waterfront Saturday, April 3rd Session 3 – INSTITUTIONS morning Rapporteur on institutions Workshops – Parallel Sessions Conclusions (Rapporteur) Plenary discussion afternoon Technical tour : Environment in Liguria Valleys Sunday, April 4th Technical tour Cinque Terre National Park Thursday, April 1st morning Arrival of the participants Participants registration Session 1 – EDUCATION afternoon Opening speeches Rapporteur on education Workshops – Parallel Sessions Conclusions (Rapporteur) Plenary discussion Presentation of Genova 2004 Events