Fano runs for Italian Capital of Culture 2022 and focuses on architecture

Fano, a candidate for Capital of Culture 2022, has presented its dossier. The theme chosen is Architects of the Human, since it is a Roman city with a great archaeological heritage. A heritage built on universal values codified in the Augustan age by Marcus Vitruvius Pollonius in De Architectura. Moreover, perhaps Vitruvius was born in Fano and built his basilica here, so Vitruvius and his De Architectura represents a mark of belonging for the Fano community.

Vitruvius places man at the center of his worldview, as well as his system of relationships and his relationship with nature. It is a vision from which the contemporary world has gradually moved away and which Fano 2022 Architects of the Human intends to recover, through Vitruvian teachings and his definition of architecture, namely the union of solidity, utility and beauty, concepts that today, in the Fano project, can be translated into the meanings of sustainability, accessibility and well-being.

Reflection on Vitruvius’s lesson ignites a new debate on contemporary architecture, on the forms of the modern city, on opportunities for regeneration of the built environment, on systems of operation and the use of public space, and on the human and social dynamics related to living. At the center of the debate is placed the contemporary man and Fano 2022 intends to become the place of experimentation of new building processes, of urban regeneration in the context of contemporaneity. Architecture is therefore considered in all its possible meanings: as a constructive process, as an act of subtraction of the built, as an artistic gesture, as an ephemeral scenography, as a digital space, as a place for designing futuristic solutions, as a training process, as an occasion and object of entertainment, a place of meeting and entertainment, as a sphere of culture, with the aim of providing a concrete and feasible model of development to other Italian cities.

Fano 2022 is based on three basic pillars:

Habitable City, or the representation of Vitruvius’ decor, not in an aesthetic sense, but in a social sense, wanting to create correspondence and harmony between human activity and nature. A city not only more livable, but where urban space is designed for different social groups and thus is more welcoming, comfortable, active, beautiful.

City ofopen innovation, in the Vitruvian meaning of inventio, linked to the dimension of economic development, territorial cohesion and modernization, giving the opportunity especially to young people to experiment with co-creation paths of cultural production, social inclusion, tourism promotion, public art, handicrafts, neo-manufacturing...

City of reuse and reactivation of resources, i.e. redevelopment of disused public properties with collective purposes and granting them to a new class of city makers, through pilot operations of temporary reuse, in order to assess the feasibility of more complex recovery initiatives, test their sustainability and consolidate the reactivation process.

Major construction sites are planned for Fano 2022, including the creation of the new Archaeological Museum or Vitruvius Museum or Museum of De Architectura book, in the area where the ancient Roman Theater is located. A museum intended to be a laboratory of new visions, in relation to the relationship with the city and its inevitable transformations

Fano is the city of Italy’s oldest Carnival: it even dates back to 1347. Besides the three Sundays of parades of floats that take place every year, however, there is no cultural, economic and social development system around the Carnival. It is intended to rethink Carnival as a productive and creative process that has its roots in the past, but is fully contemporary, and thus can involve the energies of the city and the territory. That is why the Carnival Factory will be built and inaugurated in 2022, in the former college of Sant’Arcangelo.

Fano City of Girls and Children is a project that identifies children and their needs as a measure of city planning and governance. A child-friendly city is a city that leaves no one behind, so it intends to be a project for the city of qualifying services and functions, which aims to reconnect social ties and reactivate cultural contexts, creating a welcoming, accessible and inclusive city, attentive to all vulnerable groups.

The presence of the sea has always been an element of identity from an economic, urban planning and tourism perspective. Today, however, Fano’s relationship with the sea is less recognizable: this is why the City of Fano, in December 2020, will publish an international Open Call for the redevelopment of the city’s Waterfront that takes into account the new approach to architectural and urban design.

Pictured is the Corte Malatestiana in Fano. Ph.Credit Carlo Torelli

Fano runs for Italian Capital of Culture 2022 and focuses on architecture

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