Since the beginning of the new millennium, private houses and public houses in Italy have drawn unprecedented realities, old conflicts and in some cases even new alliances. United by the progressive aging of the inhabitants, by the modification of the family nucleus, by dimensions that reveal themselves to be excessive or excessively reduced over time, private and public houses remain the litmus test of the project of the city and of the Italian territories.

The private house is increasingly transformed into a space that includes places of relationship with the outside world, it is shattered to give rise to units dedicated to hospitality, it is articulated to represent or to annex work spaces. The public house is waiting to return to being an important planning and design laboratory, it needs new development processes articulated by different subjects, from local and regional administrative realities, to proposing and implementing subjects, private, cooperative, public and third sector , is requested by inhabitants and new city users, implies the sharing of spaces and services in order to function as a micro-city. Both houses have to respond to increasingly autarkic management of resources, but both can be grafted into that old and empty heritage that defines the heart of the cities and the Italian landscape.

For a New Italian House: 3rd National Conference, Private House vs Public House

The conference aims to collect and return theories, analyzes and projects centered on the Italian private house and public house. The experiences must insist on research in progress or recently completed or on projects realized after 2000. Both accompanied by reasoning about the future. The goal is to return a photograph as close as possible to the present to continue that story on the thought and project of the Italian house marked by an important past, a story that appears blurred today. By going through private and public houses and the perspectives that interest them. The aim is to update the imaginary and reality of the national territory and the role that the project assumes in it.

The first edition of the conference For a New Italian House was designed and organized by the homonymous Research Laboratory of the University of Pisa and was held in 2021, the second was organized by the Milan Polytechnic and the University of Pisa in 2022. This edition is at the Iuav University of Venice in collaboration with the research group of the University of Pisa.

The conference will be divided into two sessions:

1. Research (theories, research, analyzes carried out on the theme of the conference).
2. Projects (design experiences carried out at different scales and pertinent to the theme of the conference).
Final debate
The conference will take place on Thursday 22 June 2023 in person at the Iuav University of Venice. Also for the speakers, of connecting online on the Microsoft Teams platform. Each speaker will have 20 minutes available for the presentation, followed at the end by a closing debate.

Call for Proposals

Please send an abstract of 2,000 characters including spaces, a bibliography and a synthetic biographical profile (maximum 500 characters, including spaces) in word and pdf format to nuovacasaitaliana3@gmail.com, by 28 April 2023, specifying in the subject Call for Proposals_NCI3 and naming the files NCI3_Name Surname_Call.

Essay publication

Following the selection of contributions, the conference program will be distributed.
Subsequently, the speakers and other authors selected via the call will be asked to send an essay (for which the editorial standards and the number of lines will be sent) which will be published in a volume published by Pisa University Press.

Scientific Committee

Maria Argenti, Sapienza University of Rome
Camillo Botticini, CBA, Brescia
Alfonso Femia, Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia,
Genoa – Milan – Paris
Imma Forino, Milan Polytechnic
Laura Fregolent, Iuav University of Venice
Cherubino Gambardella, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”
Luca Lanini, University of Pisa
Marco Lucchini, Milan Polytechnic
Lina Malfona, University of Pisa
Sara Marini, Iuav University of Ve

Download the information related to this competition here.