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| Titel |
Bridging Mediterranean cultures in the IYS: A documentary exhibition on irrigation techniques in water scarcity conditions |
| VerfasserIn |
Stefano Barontini, Amina Louki, Zied Ben Slima, Fatima Ezzahra Ghaouch, Raisa Labaran, Giulia Raffelli, Marco Peli, Nicola Vitale |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2015
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 17 (2015) |
| Datensatznummer |
250107872
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2015-7590.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Brescia, an industrial city in Northern Italy, is now experiencing a crucial change
in its traditional structure. In recent years in fact it has been elected as living and
working seat by many foreigners and it is now one of the cities with the greatest
percentage of migrants in the Country. This is an important challenge for the city and an
opportunity to merge, compare and integrate different cultures to build its future. In this
context some students of different Courses (engineering and medicine), belonging
both to the Arabian and local community, met together and with researchers in the
study team “Al–B¯i r¯u n¯i , for culture, science and society”. The team aims at
organising cultural events in which, starting from the figure of the Persian scientist
Ab¯u Raih. ¯a n Al–B¯i r¯u n¯i (about 973, 1051), the contribution of the Arabian
and Islamic culture to the development of the European one in the middle ages is
investigated.
Moving from the initial idea of the study team Al–B¯i r¯u n¯i and from the suggestions of
the World Soil Day 2014 and of the International Year of Soils 2015, we built a
documentary exhibition entitled “Irrigation techniques in water scarcity conditions”. The
exhibition, which stresses the importance of the irrigation techniques for the soil
conservation, is focused on the idea of disseminating two main concepts, i.e. (1) the
technological continuity of some water supply systems in countries, around the
Mediterranean Sea, affected by similar conditions of water availability, and (2)
the possibility of building environments where, due to severe or extreme climatic
conditions, the sustainability is reached when the man lives in equilibrium with the
nature.
The exhibition, which is written in Italian and will move around in the city during all
2015, consists of about twenty posters organized into three main chapters, corresponding to
three main classes of water supply systems which are common in most of the countries
surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. These are (1) systems using the rainfall water (wadi,
reservoirs, barrages), (2) systems using the groundwater (qa¯ n¯a t, foggara, wells) and (3)
systems based on the use of the air humidity (erg oasis, cob walls and dry–stone walls). For
each class of techniques the hydraulic concept, the traditional spread and building techniques,
and some historical examples are briefly presented in a suitable way to be appreciated by a
wide public. |
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