International Conference
15-16 May 2019, Genoa
Aula Magna del Rettorato, via Balbi 5

ConferenceThemes

Books and old buildings
Rethinking academic and public library spaces in historical buildings: flexible adaptive reuse for the 21st century users; opportunities and challenges of the church of “Santi Gerolamo e Francesco Saverio”, via Balbi 3.

Bytes and new buildings
Which are the types of learning activities and their supporting spaces, how should they be designed? An answer from hundreds of European students to the University of Genova. Which are the basic features that a library system (academic or public) should combine to inform and address new space designs? A question from the University of Genova to the leading world experts.

New books and bytes
What has the millenarian tradition of books learned from the teenaged culture of electronic files? And what about the converse question?