Grand Tour South Italy in partnership with Ohio State University. Urban research on forms of hydraulic civilization in southern Italy: Matera, Siracuse, Palermo, Trapani, Naples

The workshop session opened in April this year with the WaterTour. The participants, including the students of the Ohio State University and their

tutors, traveled by bus and ship in the south of Italy, through the territories and cities where water is a primary resource. From Matera, with its complicated

irrigation systems, down through Sicily, with the main destinations: Syracuse with its centre Ortygia on an actual island in the sea; Palermo with Zisa an its Qanat underground water supply networks; and Trapani with its Saline. They then traveled back up to Naples and the Phlegrean Fields, and their natural thermal spas (Stufe di Nerone, Terme di Agnano…), lakes (of Lucrino, Averno, Fusaro..), the waterfronts of Baia, Bacoli, Monte di Procida, Pozzuoli and other sites such as the Piscina Mirabilis or the Temple of Mercury, thereby closing the first tour of water zones.

 

The workshop focused on mapping the areas visited. The students were

asked to articulate the places they visited in graphic form and with the

technical support of various tutors, were assisted in their formulation/setting

out of an interactive-sensitive map onto which all relevant information was

transferred.

above: Campi Flegrei

 

right:  in the qunat in Palermo

 

down: final review