ALA - Key Persons
Archaeologist, PhD, Researcher in classical Archaeology at the Department of Humanities of the University of Naples Federico II. She is involved in several scientific activities of excavations and of cataloguing of ruins, for example she had the scientific direction of some excavations at the Acropolis of Gela in the collaboration project between the University of Naples Federico II and the Archaeological Superintendence of Caltanissetta. She is the author of "Roscigno, Monte Pruno. Segni di trasformazione nell'insediamento tra la fine del V e il IV sec. a.C.", in Segni di appartenenza e di identità di comunità nel mondo indigeno (Atti del Seminario di Studi, Napoli 2014) and of "Cumae, the Forum: typological and archaeometric analysis of some pottery classes from sondages inside the Temple with Portico", in Archaeometry. Comparing experiences (Naus Editoria Pozzuoli 2014).
Job Titles:
- Professor of Classical Archaeology / University of Heidelberg
- Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Heidelberg
Panagiotopoulos is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Heidelberg. His research interests include landscape archaeology, the social structures of Minoan and Mycenaean civilisations (particularly social hierarchy, political organisation, economy and religion), sealing practices, visual language, the interconnections between the Aegean and the Near East in the second millennium BCE and modern strategies for the preservation and presentation of cultural heritage. He has extensively published on Bronze Age Greece, Egypt and the Levant combining material and textual evidence and has participated in several excavations at major Bronze Age and Classical sites in Greece. He is currently directing an interdisciplinary research project at Minoan Koumasa (south Crete) aiming at the comprehensive study, reconstruction, and sustainable development of an archaeological landscape in a marginal Mediterranean region.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor / University of Athens
- Associate Professor at the Department of Communication
Dimitris Charitos is an associate professor at the Department of Communication and Media Studies and the Head of the Department of Digital Arts and Cinema, of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has studied Architectural Design (NTUA, 1990), Computer Aided Design (Strathclyde University, 1993) and has a PhD on Interactive Design and Virtual Environment Design (Strathclyde University, 1998). He has also taught at an undergraduate and postgraduate level since 1994: in Scotland (University of Strathclyde) and Greece (Department of Informatics, University of Athens and School of Architecture, NTUA, Hellenic Open University).
MArch (AUTH) PhD (Edinburgh University). Emeritus Professor of Architectural Design: Historic, Typological and Methodological Approaches, NTUA. Teaching in undergraduate, master & doctoral level. Research interests: new architecture in archaeological areas, didactics of architectural design. Author/co-author of books and articles: V. Lioliou, G.C. Moniz, K. Demiri,"Távora's struggle for ‘other' traditions in dialogue with Pikionis, Conference IASTE 2018: The Politics of Tradition / "Revitalising the urban archaeological palimpsest" (2017) Proceedings of the International Conference on Changing Cities III, p. 466-54/ "New architecture as an infill in historic context, Architecture and Urban Planning," Vol 7, TUR, Latvia (2013). Participation in designing the new NBG building (1st prize in architectural competition) over archaeological remains in Athens historic centre. Member of ICOMOS Hellenic.
He is Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture of the University of Coimbra (DA-UC) and PhD researcher in the Centre for 20th Century Interdisciplinary Studies - CEIS 20. He graduates in Architecture by the DA-UC in 1994. In 2008, he receives his Master from the Department of Civil Engineering of UC with the dissertation Castelos em Portugal: Retrato do seu perfil arquitectónico [1509-1949], which was published by Coimbra University Press in 2010. In 2016, he is awarded his PhD by the UC with the doctoral thesis Monumentos, Território e Identidade no Estado Novo: Da definição de um projecto à memorização de um legado. He is author of several articles and communications, with particular research emphasis dedicated to the cultural heritage and to its relationship with the territory, the landscape and with a certain idea of national identity. Since 1993, he is simultaneously engaged in architectural practice.
Since 1986 the main scientific interests of Paolo Carafa has been devoted to Roman topography, Etruria in etruscan and roman times (territory of Volterra), Basilicata (so-called Melfese area), Calabria (mainly ancient Sibaritide), Roman Suburbium in roman times and analysis of monumental complexes in different urban centres of ancient Italy. In 2005 he created an Archaeological Information System (patented). Since then he has been coordinated research projects dedicated to roman urban landscapes and to changing landscapes and architecture of ancient Latium. Together with the field operations, P. C. has been involved in coordinating scientific research teams since 1986 with the aim of reconstructing topography and landscapes of the investigated centers and territories, through different phases of antiquity. P. C. have also interested in artistic production of Hellenistic period, Latin epigraphy, archaic architecture in mid-thyrrenian Italy, Romanization of Campania, mainly in the city of Pompeii, and of Great Greece, Archaeological computing, Geographical Information Systems, Landscape archaeology: field survey, methods and theory. P.C. has published or edited 10 books and over 100 papers and essays in national and international volumes and journals.
Architect, PhD, Ordinary Professor of Architectural and Urban Design at the Department of Architecture of the University of Naples "Federico II". He teaches at Master of II level "Architectural Design for historic cities" and at Postgraduate School of Architectural and Landscape at University of Naples "Federico II". He has won international architectural design competitions and received prizes for studies about architecture, archaeology and landscape. From his projects and writings it is possible to catch his methodology of work which combines theory and practical level. He is the editor of I Campi Flegrei. L'architettura per i paesaggi archeologici (Quodlibet, Macerata, 2016) and the author of "Indagine archeologica e programma architettonico", in: Capuano A. (ed. by) Paesaggi di rovine. Paesaggi rovinati (Quodlibet, Macerata, 2014).
Job Titles:
- Coordinator
- General Coordinator