On 9 May 2022, ATRIUM President Patrick Leech presented the ATRIUM Cultural Route at the Italian Parliament.
The event took place in the meeting room Nuova Aula dei Gruppi parlamentari a the Chamber of Deputies in Rome.
The afternoon session focused on Cultural Routes as a platform for intercultural dialogue and as places of commemoration and education for democratic citizenship.
On 5-6 May 2022, the EPA Governing Board meets in Luxemburg to discuss among other things the recertification of the ATRIUM Cultural Route. ATRIUM President John Patrick Leech participates in the meeting.
Discover ATRIUM's heritage throught the lense of students and visit the Digital Museum of the project Landscape in a Box.
Landscape in a Box is promoted by the ATRIUM Association, created in collaboration with Deina ASP, and supported by the Region Emilia-Romagna and the municipalities of Bertinoro and Cesenatico.
The objective of the project is to explore the complexities of ATRIUM’s dissonant heritage within an approach of co-construction, involving three groups of students from different secondary schools in Forlì, Cesenatico and Bertinoro. This educational experience aims at increasing the student’s ability to critically analyse fascism and understand how architecture was a fundamental instrument of education and propaganda used by the regime. By reinterpreting symbols left in the urban landscape by the Fascist regime, the students created three “Landscapes in a Box” dedicated to specific parts of the ATRIUM heritage.
On February 2022, in occasion of the Italian Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, the conference Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe crossing Italy: a European Heritage will take place in Venice, Italy. The event is organised by the Italian Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe with the support of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes (EPA) and the Council of Europe Venice Office
The Director of the ATRIUM Association, Claudia Castellucci, will contribute as a panel speaker in the first conference session focusing on European Identity, Memory and Heritage.
Download the conference programme.
On 16-17 February 2022, ATRIUM will participate at the online forum "Integrated Approaches to Europe's Dissonant Heritage", within the framework of the Urban Agenda for the EU.
All over Europe, dissonant heritage of the 20th century is under discussion. The Online Forum on integrated approaches to Europe’s dissonant heritage gives the space to talk and have an exchange about potentials and opportunities, such as democracy building, education, culture, tourism as well as urban and regional development.
Download the programme.
Discover more about the event.
In November 2021, within the European project PEOPLE and in collaboration with the ATRIUM Association and DEINA, the secondary school Liceo Classico G.B. Morgagni (Forlì), a group of young people started a project on non-democratic regimes and minorities, focusing on the case of the border between Italy and former Yugoslavia, thus referring to the period of Mussolini's rise to power until Tito.
Download the press release (in Italian language).
Read an article on Forlì Today (in Italian language).