”SMART PRESENTATION” SPECIAL AWARD

Present your work and be selected by our Scientific Committee:

you will be able to bring home a special price of 4000 Euros!*

Here’s the detail:

The Scientific Committee shall select one work among all the ones personally presented by the candidates during a special session of the “Florence International Exchange Festival” (November 14-18 2008, Preliminary program NOW online). The choice will be based on its scientific, technical and aesthetic content. The selected work will receive the Special Award of € 4,000* which will be announced during the closing ceremony of the Florence Festival.

* The prizes shall be awarded after tax deductions. 

The final results shall be published on www.florence-expo.com by February 15, 2009.

The judgment of the Scientific Committee is unquestionable. The Scientific Committee shall reserve the right not to award any prize.

The Scientific Committee, however, shall hold the right to postpone this deadline for organizational reasons. In case of an extension, information shall be posted on the Degree & profession website. 

Ray Hutchison is chair of Urban and Regional Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago and is coauthor of The New Urban Sociology (Perseus Books) and series editor of Research in Urban Sociology (Emerald Publishing). He is a member of the Roundtable of Experts and received the International Award of Merit from Fondazione Romualdo Del Bianco in 2008.

Workshop: Architecture, Civil Engineering, Urban Planning

The Tourist City

Abstract: The Tourist City is a series of presentations and roundtables that explores the study of tourism across disciplines – economics, history, sociology — and interdisciplinary fields – cultural studies, tourist studies, urban studies. Presentations will be organized around important themes in the study of tourism, including fast tourism, history of tourism, sustainable tourism, tourism encounters. The program connects with the Del Bianco Foundation initiative Life Beyond Tourism.

Call for Paper: Submit detailed abstract of your paper to Dr. Ray Hutchison, Urban and Regional Studies, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay WI via email with subject heading “tourism” to: hutchr@uwgb.edu

Organized by: Prof. Ray Hutchison, Green Bay University, Wisconsin, USA

Number of participants: 50

See also other Speakers & Programmes

You may find all the infomation in detail here.

Here’s the brief infomation about the schedule.  For example, a  daily structure of the Festival will be divided into three main areas of interest as shown in the table below. This structure could be subject to change. 

A Daily Structure of the Festival

Conference Area			Exhibition hall
Architecture, Civil Engineering, Urban Planning	Conservation and Restoration	Design and Arts
Workshop 1	Workshop 1	Workshop 1	exhibition with stands for the companies/ professional studios
Company Presentation	Company Presentation	Company Presentation
Conference	Conference	Conference
Case Histories	Case Histories	Case Histories
			Student Poster Session
Workshop 1	Workshop 1	Workshop 1
			Students Poster Session
Performance

 Conference Area

Workshops: Professors and students will actively interact and collaborate on specific topics creating a final output by gathering information and ideas within the international groups that will be created. To provide the best interaction possible, the workshop will have a limited number of participants that will be decided by the organizer. We expect to hold at least 2 workshops for each area of interest, each one will be composed of a minimum of 3 sessions of 2 hours and 30 minutes.

Conferences: Professionals and professors from different sectors will gather in Florence to talk about specific and interesting topics while they involve the participation of the audience. The first part will be structured as a normal lecture and the second and main part of the conference will  be for questions and interventions. This setup will help to create a learning atmosphere. Each conference will last about one hour and a half.

Company presentations: Professionals and researchers coming from companies working in the different sectors of interest, will have the opportunity to update the international professionals, the studios, the universities and the students on their products, their company’s philosophy, their working procedures, their experiences, their research and achievements. Duration will be approximatively of 15 minutes each.

Case histories: Professionals coming from different sectors will share with the participants their successful account. They will talk about their work and their achievements. Furthermore, they will provide a closer look into the professional world and show the opportunities that are out there. The informality of this meeting will allow there to be a true understanding and the opportunity to ask for some advice. Duration will be of around one hour.

Performances: Performing Arts Schools will be asked to participate and perform live. Art schools will organize exhibitions and shows.

Exhibition Hall

Company exhibition: Sponsor companies will be present in an open area all day to share with the participants their experience and to look for interesting young people.

Institution exhibition: Institutions will have an area open all day that will be dedicated to their program:  courses, masters and opportunities that they offer to the students and graduates from all over the world.www.florence-expo.com and participating in the 2008 Edition will be shown continuously in an all day open area. This way the audience will have the opportunity to see the projects and later go online and vote.

Virtual Expo – Student exhibition: all projects published in the degree database at

Poster sessions: Graduates participating in the festival have the opportunity to explain their projects to a professional audience during specific sessions, while their work is exhibited in an open area all day. One of those students will be selected by the Scientific Committee to win the “Smart Presentation Award” which will be announced during the closing ceremony of the Festival.

- Project: Degree & Profession

Best Diploma Projects

IV Edition 2007

Diana Polkowska

 Tutor: Krzysztof Domaradzki

Cultural Heritage and Tourism Development. Studies of Public Spaces, Identity and Landscape shaping of Przemysl City.

Warsaw Technical University, Faculty of Architecture,
Warsaw, Poland

Here’s the words of Diana Polkowska about how she feels about the prize and the Florence-Expo project:

“Winning the IV Edition of Best Diploma Projects is a great surprise and distinction.

I would like to thank all the people, who have visited my diploma project “CULTURAL HERITAGE and TOURISM DEVELOPMENT. Studies of Public Spaces, Identity and Landscape shaping of Przemysl City” on the Florence-Expo website, so many times.

The main idea of my diploma project was to find out ways of developing Przemysl as a theme city – ‘touristic city’.

Because of Przemysl City has a long history, the rich cultural heritage and splendid urban landscape, the work on the project was divided into two parts:
1) Studies and analyses of cultural heritage, historical spatial development and conservation principles under dr hab. Arch. Danuta Kłosek – Kozłowska’s supervision
2) The project consisting of three parts: I-‘Idea’ of Touristic City development (Przemysl and the Region); II-‘The City scale’ – the model of ‘Touristic points of junction’; III-‘The City Centre’ – creating new public spaces under dr Arch. Krzysztof Domaradzki’s supervision.

The project gained win recognition in Poland and was nominated to take part in the three diploma competitions.

The International Competition – Best Diploma Project – gave me the opportunity to present my work to the general public and also to promote Przemysl ,as a touristic city, all over the world.

Participating in Florence International Expo of Best Diploma Projects gives the chance of visibility in the professional world, changing experiences, looks and good practices, so I’m very pleased of taking part in the IV Edition.”

Diana Polkowska

Why is “Degree & Profession”?

The Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation is promoting this V edition of “Degree & Profession“, which offers to young graduates the opportunity to make their work visible in the internet and that wants to create in Florence the meeting place where everybody, from students to companies, from professors to studios, have the opportunity to present their projects and their ideas. A place where networking is facilitated and creativity is acknowledged, an occasion to meet each other and to share.

Virtual Expo & International Awards

The opportunity to upload your Degree and Master thesis and project online and be seen worldwide.

By uploading your project in our database it will be permanently visible on the Virtual Expo on our website and you will always be able to update your project and the personal information in you Curriculum Vitae.

This presence on the Internet shall offer you great visibility, considering that it is monthly visited by about 4.000 people, with peaks of 6.000, interested in the sectors related to your project.

Having your project in the Virtual Expo you will have the opportunity to:

• have your work on our everlasting on-line archive that is visited by companies and professionals searching for new talents
• have your abilities and skills accredited on an international level
• search for companies and professionals and contact them through our profession database
• participate in an international contest and win one of the awards (money prizes, stage, free stays in Florence, publications)

All the projects published and participating in the 2008 Edition of the International Awards will be displayed also during the Florence International Exchange Festival which will take place in Florence from the 14th to the 18th of November 2008 (the program is on-line on the Festival page).

In addition to those opportunities you can also come to the “Florence Festival” from November 14 to 18, 2008 and personally display and explain your project to the public of professors, professional and students, during the poster sessions organized within the program. by doin this you will have the opportunity to win one special prize: the “Smart Presentation” Award which will be designeted by the Scientific Committee during the festival.

In any case the participation in the Florence Festival shall be optional and shall not jeopardize your participation in the competition and in the winning of the other awards.

Florence Festival (14-18 November, 2008 )

The opportunity for students, companies, professionals, studios and universities to meet.

The Festival will be the meeting point for bridging the gaps and bringing together all the fields of creativity by entering in contact with people from all over the world, by exchanging information, opinions and ideas, by the convergence of hundreds of creative minds.

The Festival will be a stage where creativity is acknowledged and where networking is facilitated by the congregation of hundreds of people with the same interests and the willingness to build the future of tomorrow!

IT IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN

5 days to be the protagonist and interact with professionals and professors during our

• Workshops
• Case histories
• Student Poster Sessions
• Conferences
• Company Presentations
• Training sessions
• Exhibitions
• Theatrical Performances

The preliminary program is on-line NOW!

After some years of positive experience to value the development of this research, the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation was founded with this specific Goal: Social Mission, which is International Integration among people of different Countries, Cultures and Religions.

This is our Motto:

To contribute to the process of International Integration:

For the Peace in the World, among Youth of Different Countries with the Culture

Meetings, getting acquainted, understand each other

to develop the Friendship among People

With this the Foundation means to contribute to confirm Florence as a town of meetings connected with culture and stimulated from this; hence Florence town with high level of vocation of Peace; Florence as a Missionary of Peace.

We believe that we have to direct our efforts to Young people and their enthusiasm in getting acquainted, as well as their hunger for art and culture. This is the reason why those students of foreign faculties, play the leading role in each international meeting which our Foundation arranges every year in Florence. At this time, we repeat, a special attention is shown to the students coming from Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Asia and Far East. Due to different reasons (historical, political or geographical) these countries have recently shown a great interest towards a stronger international integration and their young generations have just embodied this growing interest.

Together with other students – coming from different Countries – they join meetings, exhibitions, concerts and many other kind of initiatives through which the Culture (without any distinction) becomes an engine for the development of interpersonal meetings, knowledge and acquaintances and so it favours friendship.

Hence the Culture is a powerful engine for the Peace.

Thus the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation intend by means of their program to attract the enthusiasm and consensus and, if possible, the impassioned involvement of all those who see in art and architecture non only universal expression of beauty and cultural identity, but also a powerful instrument with which to stimulate interpersonal and intercultural meetings, reciprocal awareness and understanding, and thus friendship between peoples; not solely an effort aimed at the protection of a patrimony which belongs to all humanity, but an investment for world peace; as the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation’s motto : “discovering the past together – working to build a shared future”.

A special attention is given to students coming from Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Asia and Far East, because due to different reasons (historical, political or geographical) these countries have recently shown a great interest towards a stronger integration with western countries and their young generations just embody this growing interest.

Here enclosed you can find some of the main features of the activity of Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation, as well as the most important results of its partnership with Vivahotels “Art in our HeArt”.

A brief chart explaining the activity of the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation