GNGTS 2023 - Atti del 41° Convegno Nazionale

Session 2.3 GNGTS 2023 Disclosure of seismic vulnerability concepts in the School of Architecture and enhancement of risk awareness of local communities: a three-days experience in Alta Valtiberina (Italy) V. Cardinali, E. Di Rienzo, M. Petrolini, D. Pugliese, F. Trovatelli, M. Tanganelli, M. De Stefano Department of Architecture, University of Florence, Italy Due to the high level of seismic risk affecting the Italian territory, seismic prevention policy needs to operate at different levels. From one side, professionals must be conscious of the design concepts in seismic areas; from the other, population must be aware of the risk at stake. From the professional side, the introduction of recent seismic allows the achievement of acceptable probabilities of attaining pre-determined limit states on the basis of the nominal life of constructions and the return period of the earthquake action. From the other side, different strategies are developed by the Department of Civil Protection, municipalities and regions in order to make the people conscious of the risk affecting our building stock. The Io non rischio campaign, started in 2011, is targeted at sensibilizing the population towards the needed good practice in case of emergency (Postiglione et al. 2016). The campaign involves different hazard sources, such as flood, earthquakes and tsunamis. It represents a national weekend of activities where, in many squares in different cities and villages all around Italy, instructed volunteers of the territory exhibits good practice of civil protection, yet showing the emergency areas localized in the council, the reference places, the current risk of the districts etc. Other events have been carried out in Italy in the last years. Between them, it is worth mentioning the movement Diamoci una scossa (Dolce et al. 2019) and the National Civil Protection’s Week, established in 2019 following the International Day for Disaster Reduction promoted by Onu (https://iddrr.undrr.org/ ). The current contribution presents the results of a three-days experience carried out by the Department of Architecture of the University of Florence in the Alta Valtiberina area. In the architectural curricula, the topics related to the constructions in seismic areas are often very limited, leaving the acquisition of significant expertise to post-graduation experiences during the professional career. However, in the School of Architecture at University of Florence a strong effort by professors and researchers is devoted to provide the students those useful skills needed to face a world of work that has to deal with the seismic risk. In the April 2022, a group of 13 between Master and PhD students (including 2 Erasmus students) got involved into an in-situ experience dealing with the seismic vulnerability of two historical centers located in the municipality of