Territorio Mudéjar collaborates one more year in the workshop Cortona Open 3D that this year celebrates its Urbino edition.

Territorio Mudéjar has once again collaborated in CortonaOpen3d, which this year was held in Urbino, a town in the Italian region of Le Marche (Marche).

CortonaOPen3d \ BlenderOPen3d 2024 is a Design in a Cultural Heritage context workshop that took place from 26 July to 4 August. During the workshop, participants developed an architecture-design project or an artistic installation in the context of the city of Urbino.

The workshop is an international initiative and is carried out in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano, the Fine Arts Academies of Brera (Milan) and Urbino, the University of Zaragoza and the Escuela Superior de Diseño de Aragón.

Within this framework, Territorio Mudéjar collaborates by monitoring the projects and with two activities:

On Tuesday, the director of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares, was in charge of giving a presentation on the digitalisation strategy of Territorio Mudéjar through the projects carried out by the organisation and with the specific presentation of the Villarreal de Huerva project. This municipal project, carried out thanks to funding from the #fundacionemprende and the collaboration of the #comarcaCampodeDaroca, consists of using virtual reality to understand and publicise its valuable historical heritage. This initiative, which seeks to promote cultural and heritage tourism, offers visitors an immersive and unique experience that will allow them to travel back in time.

In addition, the TM director took part in the jury responsible for evaluating the projects and awarded the Territorio Mudejar mention – which coincided with the jury’s mention – to the “Delirium” project. The aim of the project was to redevelop the square of Borgo Mercatale in Urbino, today a car park at ground level and underground, to recover visually the landscape and restore an ideal connection between the views of the wall of the Cini Towers and one of the main access routes into the city.

Study-trip to Cortona (Italy): Territorio Mudéjar participates once again in the COrtonaOPen3d workshop.

This week saw the end of the eleventh edition of the workshop organised by the Politecnico di Milano, the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, the Urbino Academy of Fine Arts and the Aragon School of Design COrtonaOPen3d, in which Territorio Mudéjar participated for the third consecutive year.

In this edition, the director of the entity, Victoria Trasobares, travelled to the Tuscan town to share with the participants in the workshop her strategic vision of the possibilities for development offered by Heritage in the rural environment and to explain to the students, students of architecture, design and Fine Arts, the management processes that enable the implementation of innovative projects, such as those developed in the Gonzalo M. Borrás Gualis Research Stays and Projects.

The students of the workshop have developed a total of 23 proposals centred on the possibilities offered by the Girifalco Fortress, located in the upper part of the city, as a pole of innovation and cultural development with a theme that this year revolved around the theme of music. Reflections ranging from its connection with existing structures in the town centre such as the Signorelli Theatre, the development of installations along the routes leading to the fortress or the refunctionalisation of some spaces have materialised the ideas on the future of heritage as a driving force for local development shared during these days.

On the other hand, various meetings have been held with the cultural institutions responsible for the Cortona On The Move International Photography Festival, the managers of different heritage sites such as the Girifalco Fortress itself and the heads of Culture and Tourism of the local council in order to set up joint projects that, with a strategic vision of the management of the heritage of these territories, will allow new actions to be developed over the coming year.

COrtonaOPen3d is a SmartCityDesign workshop in a Cultural Heritage context held in the town of Cortona (Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy) from 29 July to 7 August. During the workshop, participants develop individually or in groups an architectural design project or an artistic installation inserted in the context of the city of Cortona.

The workshop lasts approximately 100 hours divided between frontal lessons, lectures and project workshops and is conducted in Italian, English and Spanish. Each year around 50 to 100 international students participate.

The students of the Desafío Programme, Unita and the collaborators of Territorio Mudéjar attended the presentation from the organisation’s headquarters in Tobed.

Territorio Mudéjar participates in the CortonaOpen3D workshop as an example of innovative heritage management

Territorio Mudéjar took part in the CortonaOpen3D workshop, a specialized course in computer graphics and smart city design applied to cultural heritage, which was held from August 1 to 10 in the Italian city of Cortona, in the province of Arezzo (Tuscany), to share its example of innovative management of artistic and historical heritage in a rural setting.

During this workshop, the participants work individually or as a group to develop an architectural design project or an art installation inserted into the context of the city of Cortona. To do this, they receive specialized training in different areas related to architecture.

In this regard, Victoria Trasobares, director of Territorio Mudéjar, gave a conference to explain the Territorio Mudéjar model “as a strategic example of heritage management: the project behind the projects”.

The lecture was streamed live from the town of Tobed and in it, Victoria Trasobares discussed how the Territorio Mudéjar network began and grew, outlined its activity program and, in line with the course contents, explained how a technological vision can guide the work of historical, artistic and cultural heritage management.

She also talked about the “Mudéjar Patrimonio Mundial 3D” (3D Mudejar World Heritage) project, a cross-disciplinary initiative led by Luis Agustín Hernández, architect and professor at the School of Engineering and Architecture of University of Zaragoza, aimed at revaluing Mudejar heritage. The project arose from the 2019 fieldwork grants and will continue in a major new cross-disciplinary, multi-university project between Spain and Italy. The University of Zaragoza (School of Engineering and Architecture, and the Art History department of the School of Humanities), the Polytechnic of Turin, Polytechnic of Milan and the University of Salerno will all take part.

In addition, the conference at CortonaOpen3D represented the first of numerous wide-ranging activities open to the students in the 2020 Challenge Program internships, an initiative funded by the Provincial Government of Zaragoza and managed by Universa, the job orientation and employment service of University of Zaragoza.