Yesterday, 30 May, ended the fourth biennial conference of DICAAR, during which the valorisation of the nuragic heritage in a Unesco perspective and the ‘Sardegna nuragica’ project, promoted by La Sardegna versp l’Unesco and coordinated by CREnOs, were also discussed.
It was a two-day in-depth event with moments of presentation and discussion that brought together scientific, technical and cultural instances such as our Association.
Included in the ‘Architecture is Heritage’ session, the panel entitled ‘The Nuraghi and UNESCO’ was attended by Marco Cadinu, Carlo Atzeni and Pierfrancesco Cherchi. Among the guests were Superintendent Monica Stocchino, Gianluca Cadeddu, Marco Naseddu (Regional Programming Centre), Sardinia towards UNESCO member and former DICAAR Director Antonello Sanna and Raffaele Paci (CRENoS).
Sanna emphasised that the topic of enhancing the value of nuragic monuments is highly topical and of great strategic importance today.
During the debate, he also illustrated the ‘Sardegna nuragica’ project, which, starting from the candidature of the 32 nuragic monuments as Unesco World Heritage Sites, aims to create a network of cultural offerings to transform the 32 sites on the tentative list into an integrated system with the other resources and services of the territories involved, thus uniting tourism, training, entrepreneurship and research.
The aim of the project is to make the Nuragic monuments more accessible, usable and attractive through services, platforms and ICT digital tools that the new network will design and make available to visitors and members themselves. All this without compromising the historical and cultural integrity of the nuragic monuments.
In this perspective, the other research projects in which the Association is involved alongside numerous researchers from DICAAR, including the RETURN project(Multi-Risk Science for Resilient Communities under a Changing Climate) financed by the PNRR and led by Battista Grosso for the multidisciplinary research team of the University of Cagliari in coordination with other national universities, are also part of the project.
In the session ‘Environmental Engineering for a Sustainable Future’, the progress of the project ‘Multi-hazard Analysis Applied to the Archaeological Heritage, with Special Reference to the Nuragic Settlement System’ was illustrated, involving researchers from the disciplines of Restoration, Geomatics, Materials and Construction Sciences, and Rock Mechanics, as well as archaeologists.
Our Association facilitated and supported the study activities by providing useful materials to develop the cognitive frameworks. The hope is that the renewed interest of research in the themes of the Nuragic civilisation with a multidisciplinary approach can produce scientific advances hitherto unexplored and, above all, establish a new and stronger awareness in communities of the importance of the heritage of Sardinian protohistory for the development of the island.
