INTERCULTURAL SEMINAR “THE SEA AS A BRIDGE BETWEEN ENERGY RESOURCES AND SOCIAL SHARING OF LAND”

THE SEA AND THE ARCHITECTURE
Under the frame of a Convention between the Istanbul Technical University in Turkey and the University of Naples “Federico II” in Italy, under force since 2008, an Intercultural Seminar had taken place, which was connected with the research upon the topic of “Water”; the peculiar subject of the event, held in Naples on November 2014, “The sea as a bridge between Energy resources and social sharing of land”, was mainly aimed at comparing different visions of the possible exploitation of the water resource of the sea, taken by an assorted expertise: architects, technologists, planners, engineers and biologists. After brief greetings from the President of the Polytechnic and Science School of the University of Naples, prof. P. Salatino and an introduction of the organizer of the event, D. Francese, the Director of the CITTAM interdepartmental Centre, the main guest from the ITU, Funda Uz, professor of Architectural Design interfaced with the Italian professors of Biology, G. De Vico, of Chemical Engineering, Antonio Marzocchella, of Technical Architecture, M. Fumo and of Urban Planning, F. D. Moccia: each of them considering a different approach to the energy-social potential of the sea-resource.
One of the principles of the contemporary vision of the humanist as well as scientific culture within the Western world has been that of the integration between the physical and the spiritual characters, analyzed under very different points of view from both the philosophers and the scientists. The classical and Christian approach outlined a strong diversification of the two worlds, the material and the immaterial, trying to find a link right in the human brain, which was destined to become the important bridge between the good and the bad behaviours, while defending the nature as it is.¹[…]