Timeline (Under construction)

“Sign Invention” is an exhibition of objects created by young designers from all over Europe that could be sold as gadgets for the Atrium Cultural Route. The objects were selected upon a design contest and organised in collaboration with Romagna Creative District.
View the catalogue.

Collateral Events: 

• Training session “How to create an ATRIUM tourism Product”, with a focus on how to manage a cultural route, how to create an ATRIUM tourism product (participation of representatives from Labin, Croatia).  
• Public meeting with stakeholders, entitled “Comparative European Cultural Routes: an opportunity for the economic Development”, with the participation of the Via Francigena, the European Route of Historic Thermal Towns, the Réseau Art Noveau, representatives of the European Institute of Cultural Routes (Council of Europe). 

In occasion of the European Heritage Days 2014, a photographic exploration of the abandoned architectural heritage left by European totalitarian regimes of the 20th century “Totally Lost” is staged at the Fondation de l’Architecture in Luxemburg. Design and creation: Spazi Indecisi for ATRIUM. 

The exhibition had already been set up in Forlì (Italy) at the former ATR bus depot with more than 1,000 visitors. Through photographs and videos, it narrates the architectural remains left by 20th-century dictatorial regimes in Europe and explores these architectural spaces as fragments to be reconnected within a network of new democratic meanings.  

The Totally Lost project has collected 3,000 photographs and 60 videos, mapping buildungs of historical and architecural value, such as institutional buildings, places of propaganda and power, factories, mines, resorts, hospitals, monuments - neglected and abandoned places raising questions on their and our future.   

View the digital mapping on the Totally Lost website.

In occasion of an event series from 5-7 December in Forlì, the Director of the Insitute of Cultural Routes confers ATRIUM the certification “Cultural Route of the Council of Europe” on 6 December 2014 (Atrium flyer). 

The event represents a prestigious moment for the town of Forlì and the other Atrium members; thus, delegations from local and European towns join the ceremonyfrom various member towns, European and local cities are present at the ceremony, while organising initiatives in the member towns to promote the certification among the citizens. 

Some of the highlights of the event series in Forlì:  

• a guided tour with workshops entitled “Piccola storia di controllo dell’uomo sull’uomo” [Brief history of the man’s control over man] by La Casa del Cuculo 
• the guided tour “Dai Campi e dale Cucine” [From fields and kitchen] about the local food system in Forlì between 1930 and 1945, involving places of food production and distribution, with food tastings (in collaboration with Slow Food) 
• an Instawalk: guided tour of the former GIL building and digital photo contest (in collaboration with Instagramers Forlì-Cesena and the Invasioni Digitali association) 
• the presentation of the project “Resistenza mAPPe” in collaboration with the network of the Emilia-Romagna Institutes of the History of Resistance 

Some noteworthy initiatives in the surrounding member towns: 

• the presentation of the Ciclope, focusing on the reuse of the former Caproni airplane factory in Predappio 
• the inauguration of the Padiglione delle Feste (Festival hall) of the thermal complex of Castrocaro Terme after its restoration 
• the preparation of a dinner using exclusively products used in the 1930s (Istituto alberghiero Forlimpopoli, a secondary vocational school of catering and hospitality) 
• guided tours of the AGIP holiday camp in Cesenatico as the thermal complex in Fratta Terme – Bertinoro

In 2015, two main studies are conducted: 

• the research project “Adaption of the Mine’s Heritage of Labin” presented in both Labin and Zagreb 
• a study of the facade renovation in Labin, including indications for the restoration as well as the use of colors and materials 

Throughout the year, a number of initiatives have been promoted to present the citizens with the projects of renovation and reuse of the architectural heritage related to the mine:

Labin: 

1. Round table on the ATRIUM heritage: 
   For decades, starting from the fascist period, mining has been the main industry and source of life in the whole Labin area. Today, the memory of this past is kept in Podlabin, a planned settlement built for the needs of mining whose central part Pijacal is a protected industrial heritage complex. There is a mine shaft tower - the main entrance of the 150 m deep mine, Lamparna (lamp room) and the futuristic public library recently built within the mine complex. 
2. Presentation of the study on the restoration of the mining area. 
3. Presentation of the project on the restoration of the bathroom's area. 
4. Project presentation of the steel tower. 
    

Raša: 

5. Heating Plant Reconstruction: ATRIUM public presentation in Raša. 
6. Renovation of the Cinema: Project presentation Raša. 

On the occasion of the inauguration of the former GIL building in Forli, which had been restored to host a museum of gymnastics, an important exhibition (attach POSTER Cesare Valle) on the work of architect Cesare Valle The is organised. The event is pat of the 2nd edition of the Festival del ‘900 (Festival of the 20th Century) offering diverse activities, such as debates, conferences, exhibitions, theatre plays, muscial performances and guided tours.

Among the initiatives:

• Theatre play “Orazione civile per un cantiere - Io ho visto” [Civil oration for a construction site - I’ve seen it] on the massacre of Sant'Anna di Stazzema, with Pamela Villoresi.
• Theatre play ”SPEER. Architettura e|è potere” [SPEER. Architecture and|is Power] by The'atro Association.
• Exhibition “Cantiere Restauro” [Restoration Yard] and the presentation of the manual “Linee Guide per il Restauro del Moderno” [Guidelines for the Restoration of Modern Architecture], also published in Croatian. (attach guidelines croatian)
• Presentation of the project “In loco - museo diffuso dell’abbandono in Romagna: itinerari Totally Lost” [In loco - open-air museum of abandoned architecture in Romagna: Totally Lost itineraries] by the association Spazi Indecisi.
• Guided tour “Orti di pace, orti di guerra” [Gardens of peace, gardens of war] in collaboration with Slow Food and Forlì sotto le bombe: la guerra, la fame.
• Debate “Urbanism and Dictatorship” with the participation of representatives from the Polytechnic University Berlin and the Bauhaus institute of Weimar.
• Creative workshop “Sei gradi di connessione” by Sei Gradi- Connessioni Culturali (online magazine).

Invasioni Digitali #InvasioniDigitali (#DigitalInvasions) is a bottom-up project based on the use of smartphones, tablets, tags and social networks. It encompasses the changing role of online users and the spread of social platforms. Diverse groups of people have decided to support Italian cultural institutions by “invading” them with cameras, smartphones and tablets to tell their personal stories through web and social media. In Forlì, one of the “invaded” spaces was the courtyard of the former GIL building with its fascinating mosaics.

“Transnational urban memory for local development the ATRIUM” 

The United Nations World Tourism Organisation publishes a special report (attach UNWTO global report) on Cultural Itineraries, analyzing them from multiple perspectives as a resource for a new type of experiential and slow tourism. ATRIUM has been identified and surveyed as an example of Good Practices for the local development of a tourist experience inolving the transnational urban memory.

Organisation of a meeting with representatives of the Faculty of Architecture and conference presenting the ATRIUM Cultural Route to students from the secondary school of Iasi, Romania.

ARSIA CITTA’ MINERARIA: The exhibition “Arsia Città Mineraria” on the history of the mining town Arsia (today Raša, Croatia) from the foundation of the village. The exhibition is set up in Raša, Trieste, Sospirolo, and Forlì. The exhibition and its catalogue are the result of a joint research work carried out by experts of the Italian community of Labin (HR) and Italian experts from Trieste, highlighting the importance of the ethnic minority in the Istrian territory. 

“Fare Faro a Forlì” was the start-up event for the Municipality of Forlì in the process of adhering to the Faro Convention. The program is devoted to activities focusing on ATRIUM heritage and the Faro Days. 

The Faro Convention encourages the role of civil society and communities to participate in the identification and enhancement of cultural heritage, which is the basis for building individual and collective identities of places. It thus encourages people-centred, and sustainable approaches to cultural heritage, and promotes innovative models of participatory heritage-making. 

Against this background, Forli promotes the creation of Heritage Communities, encouring the participation of individuals and associations to promote places associated to the 20th century. For this reason, the process of adhering to the Faro Convention in Forlì is closely connected with the work carried out by the ATRIUM Cultural Route. In fact, the cultural route studies and promotes knowledge on the architectural heritage left by 20th-century dictatorial regimes in Europe as well as the historical and social events that characterized those periods. The reinterpretation of the architectural heritage and intangible legacy of fascism are historically and socially contextualized, while any revisionism is rejected.

In various member towns of the Atrium Cultural Route, signs with QR codes have been designed and installed to give access to new ATRIUM itineraries: in Labin  and Rasa in Croatia as well as in Forlì  and Predappio in Italy. Moreover, in the town of Labin, a specific training for tourist guides has been organised. 

Widespread multimedia exhibition “Totally Lost 2016” on abandoned architecture left by totalitarian regimes’ of the 20th century in Europe. The event involves a series of collateral activities, such as film screenings, biking tours, birdwatching, live music, camping and stargazing). The exhibition is the result of a second photo/movies contest carried out by the Spazi Indecisi Association with the support and collaboration of the ATRIUM Cultural Route. All events take place in ATRIUM sites in the surroundings of Forlì.
Visit the Totally Lost web site 

• Summer in Lastovo-Uble (Croatia): Reopening of the openair cinema “Kino Mediterranean Lastovo” after the last screening in 1990, and workshops for young artists and curators working on visual arts about Uble.
• “Names of the ‘90s” (attachment encl 121) – an exhibition presenting art pieces of the most famous artists of the 1990s in the city art gallery of Dimitrovgrad (Bulgaria) with a presentation from the art specialist Diana Popova “When the boundaries were put”, focusing the most memorable events in the art sector in those years.
• “La gran nave di pietra rossa”: photgraphic exhibition on the period that the famous painter Giorgio de Chirico spent in Ferrara and Tresigallo; location: restored rationalist building “Sogni” [Dreams] in Tresigallo (Italy).
• “Labor Omnia Vincit. Portraits of life and work from the photographic archive of SNIA Viscosa” – the photographic exhibition presents an exceptional historic, artistic and socio-anthropological heritage, focusing the unusual history of the town-factory as well as Torviscosa’s autarkic origins.
• Festa dell’Architettura (attachment House of Crippled) [Festival of Architecture] in Forlì (Italy): in collaboration with the Ordine degli Architetti Forlì-Cesena [Association of Architects of the province], an important research study on the former Casa del Mutilato is presented at the University of Ferrara.

In 2016, the project of a new elevator within the steel tower of Pijacal mining complex in Labin (Croatia) is implemented. Moreover, an architectural exhibition in the Biennale of industrial art on Pijacal is organised, while the project is presented to students from the Faculty of Architecture of Zagreb.

Objectives: UrbanHist is a multidisciplinary research and training program aiming to develop and sustainably promote a joint understanding of the history of urban planning in the 20th century from a European perspective. 15 early-stage researchers will work in 8 thematic fields on the development and sustainable promotion of a joint understanding of 20th century European urbanism. They will be embedded into a network of high-profile academics and practitioners. The project is financed by HORIZON 2020 - Innovative Training Networks European Joint Doctorates in the period 2016-2020. 

Project Partners: Bauhaus Institute of Weimar (D), Tekniska Högskola of Karlskrona (S), J. Šafárik University of Košice (SK), University of Valladolid (E), as partner. Moreover ATRIUM (I) and 11 other as associated.