My presentation on post-disaster strategies in cultural heritage management can now be found here slideshare.net/califano/learn… #MuseumNext

— Alessandro Califano (@a_califano) May 15, 2013

Sympathy for the Devil, the Rolling Stones (Hyde Park, 1969): Bye bye, Mr. Andreotti…

Particularly happy, today, about the fact that my presentation to the ROSCCA 2013 Conference will take place in the Stallman Room: “Free as in Freedom”…   ;-)

I’ll be speaking about the 2009 and 2012 earthquakes in Italy and the unsatisfying approach to great risks management til now in a presentation running under the title: “Learning from Mistakes: A different Strategy for Cultural Crisis Management in Post-Disaster Areas”.

Sobriamente, il chiarissimo prof. @senatoremonti promuove un grande movimento: l’Italia che sale. Ascenseur pour l’échafaud. #notinmyname — Alessandro Califano (@a_califano)

Bologna, view over the Salara (the city’s salt deposit, last third of the 18th century) and industrial buildings, on the back of MAMBo museum.

Shot yesterday from the room where we were having our ICOM Italy’s Committee for audiovisuals & new technologies meeting.

aqsakal:

Pericolo caduta lacrimogeni

“Danger - falling teargas canisters” - The exterior of the Ministry of Justice in Rome, from where teargas canisters were apparently shot against a students’ rally passing nearby…

I finished writing a short essay about the need to rethink the strategy for managing cultural heritage protection issues in post-disaster areas: the ICOM Italy strategy that worked out pretty well in the aftermath of the 2009 earthquake in L’Aquila, was a complete flop when the 2012 earthquake hit the Emilia-Romagna region.

I’ll soon post it on SlideShare - will share the link, when this happens.

The University of Milan organized a Satellite Workshop at VL/HCC 2012 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing - under the patronage of ICOM Italy.

The workshop (“Creative Design for Interdisciplinary Projects in Cultural Heritage” - CDCH’12) will take place on 4 October 2012 in Innsbruck, Austria, at Congress und Messe Innsbruck GmbH.

My Invited Talk as a guest speaker will be “Standards, Prototypes, and Pilot Projects - Technology and Flexibility in Designing Cultural Heritage Projects in Challenging Contexts”. It will take into account my experience as a cultural consultant for UNESCO in Central Asian Countries like Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, and the theoretical approach fostered by OSACA - the Open Source Alliance of Central Asia.

The Italian Parliament? A bunch of zombies…

Italian MP, Justice Antonio Di Pietro, posted a great little video: his interview is intermingled with pictures showing main politicians as living dead, as in Romero’s cult movie (1968).

Wonderful! And of course, strongly criticised by the zombies themselves…  ;-)