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Mediarc, festival internazionale di architettura in video, since 1992 has been offering an occasion to reflect on Architecture, Design and Sustainability, prizing and promoting recent architecture projects through multimedia and audio-visual representations. Each edition focuses on a particular topic (for example the 2012 edition was titled "Abbandono e Recupero" and tackled the recovery and the reutilization of disused or abandoned urban spaces).

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Name/Acronym:

Mediarc, international festival of Architecture in video.

Founding Year (first edition):

1992

Period (season/annual/biennial):

The Festival is held annually and usually it lasts for a few days in the period October-December.

Location:

TAD - Dipartimento di Tecnologiedell'Architettura e Design "P. Spadolini", of the Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via San Niccolò 93, Florence

Structure (concerts, exhibitions, seminars, workshops):

The Festival proposes round tables, conferences, projections of films, videos and visual documents, video-installations, photographic exhibitions, theatre and artistic performances.

Promoting Institution/Producer:

With the subscription of the President of the Republic

Artistic Direction:

Alberto Di Cintio, in charge of the Laboratorio di Comunicazione Visiva del Dipartimento di Processi e Metodi della Produzione Edilizia of the Architecture faculty.

Administration (structure, staff, representatives and collaborators):

Department Director: Roberto Bologna
Artistic Director: Alberto Di Cintio
Scientific Committee (in office in 2012):
Saverio Mecca
Roberto Bologna
Massimo Ruffilli
Alberto Di Cintio
Romano Del Nord
Marco Sala
Cosimo Carlo Buccolieri
Giancarlo Cauteruccio
Antonio Glessi
Giovanni Pecchioli
Adolfo Baratta
Francesco Ventura

Administration Office: Lucia Galantini
Organization: Studio Nuti e Pretini

Collaborations (possible long-term collaborations/episodic collaborations with institutions/associations):

Venues:

  • Aula Magna Ateneo, Florence
  • Facoltà di Architettura S.ta Verdiana, Florence
  • Aula Magna Dipartimento TAD, Florence
  • Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence
  • Spaziourbano San Salvi – Città aperta, Florence
  • Spazio Urbano Contemporaneo Le Murate, Florence
  • Casa della Creatività, Florence
  • Opera del Duomo, Florence

Contacts:

Administration Office:
Lucia Galantini
Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell’Architettura e Design “Pierluigi Spadolini”
Via San Niccolò, 93
50125 – Firenze
tel +39 055 2055504
fax +39 055 2055599
email: segr-dip@taed.unifi.it
web: http://www.unifi.it/dptaed

Website:

Objectives:

Reflect on Architecture, Design and Sustainability, prizeand promote innovative projects.

Areas of Interest:

Architecture, Design, Sustainability.

Origin and History:

The Dipartimento TAD established the FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DI ARCHITETTURA IN VIDEO (after named MEDIARC) in April 1992 thanks to an idea of Egidio Mucci – Professor of Strumenti e Tecniche della Comunicazione Visiva - and of the Arch. Alberto Di Cintio - Laboratorio di Comunicazione Visiva of the Department - and since then it has been designing and promoting the event. Dipartimento TAD has developed the project with the precious and eminent direction of the Scientific Committee specifically established, the Artistic Direction of the Arch. Alberto di Cintio and the aid of several private contributions. Over the years the editions took place annually, with the exception of few breaks:

  • First edition: December 1996
  • Second edition: December 1997
  • Third edition: December 1998
  • Fourth edition: December 1999
  • Fifth edition: December 2000
  • Sixth edition: March 2002
  • Seventh edition: October 2003
  • Eighth edition: December 2008
  • Ninth edition: October 2009
  • Tenth edition: November 2010
  • Eleventh edition: November 2011
  • Twelfth edition: October 2012

Artists:

Clet, Massimo Pica Ciamarra, Marco Sala, Saverio Mecca, Romano Del Nord, Marco Massa, Pier Angiolo Cetica, Michele Paradiso, Dora Francese, Alessandro Rogora, Elisabetta Vannini, Claudio Ascoli, Fuad, Silvana Grippi, Distilo, Ulivi, Lithos 19, Chiocca, Germondari, Boni, De Finis, Milagros Aguero, Alvarez Pitaluga, Giandomenico Amendola, Maurizio Ferraris, Franco Purini, Adolfo Natalini, Sergio Givone, Francesco Gurrieri, Bernardo Secchi, Marco Romano, Adolfo Baratta, Fabrizio Violante, Antonio Glessi, Marta Francocci, Paolo Riolzi, Fabio Fornasari, Isabelle Fey-Wagner, Emiliano Laszlo, Massimo Tepedino, Xinyan Liu, Wittfrida Mitterer, Bernard Muller, Dorothee Dubrau.

Projects (realized/on going/to be realized):

“Architettura, urbanistica, design a Berlino PRIMA e DOPO la caduta del muro” (2009); “Passeggiata nell’architettura cubana” (2011); partner of the Festival MEDIAMIX (since 2009)/ section of the Festival d’Europa 2013

Productions:

Publications:

Publication of the catalogues of the Festival’s editions

Events and Other Activities:

Mediarc is partner of the MEDIAMIX Festival (since 2009)

Multimedia Files:

Video:
Canale YouTube ufficiale

Audio:

Other:

Augmented reality:

Latitudine:

43.76465

Longitudine:

11.25968

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Webliography:

Notes:

Kind of File:

InteractiveResource

Object (category) from Thesaurus Pico Cultura Italia:

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Related Voices:

Giancarlo Cauteruccio
Antonio Glessi