Home :: Communia 2010 :: University and Cyberspace :: 28-30 June 2010 :: Torino, Italy


Universities are entrusted with the increasingly important responsibility of creating, sharing, and fostering use of knowledge on behalf of society, and to that end, are the recipients of tremendous investments of time, money, space, authority and freedom. Universities have embraced this role in diverse fashions, varying by tradition, period, and discipline, but we now ask them to go further. As we progress ever more deeply into a networked age, our knowledge institutions are faced with concomitant opportunities. They are challenged by society to become a driving force to create and disseminate knowledge – using innovative, effective, and dynamic approaches – derived from and for the networked world.

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The website for the COMMUNIA 2010 Conference is now fully operative, including a draft programme, useful information and an announcement list subscription: http://www.universities-and-cyberspace.org

University and Cyberspace

Reshaping Knowledge Institutions for the Networked Age

28-30 June 2010, Torino, Italy

Co-organized by NEXA Center for Internet & Society at the Politecnico di Torino and Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, the event is the third and final Conference of the COMMUNIA Project: http://communia-project.eu/

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XXIII UIA World Congress of Architecture Torino 2008 – Italy, June & July 2008


XXIII UIA

Torino, 29 June – 3 July 2008

For the first time an Italian city hosts a World Congress of the International Union of Architects.

Torino will be the location of this prestigious event which every three years reunites thousands of professionals and students to cover a theme analysing the future prospects of the profession and its relationship with the social and cultural problems of the moment.

The theme chosen for the event in 2008 is Transmitting Architecture.

A title with two complementary sides: on the one hand architecture’s ability to communicate the meaning of what it does, both as design creation and for the deep social involvement it leads to; on the other architecture’s active role in perceiving – like an antenna – positive energies and society’s emerging phenomena.

Architecture presides over territorial transformation and talks to all the actors involved in this process, with the aim of asserting the right of all citizens to the quality of life and of the environment.

Architecture is for everyone.

A tool to build a widespread urban democracy, nourished by communication and by the spreading of knowledge.

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