Unexpected heritages. The reuse of former-prisons: challanges and potentials

The symposium draws on the assumption that the remains of former prisons constitute a difficult and neglected heritage, which is often ignored in order to remove it, at least metaphorically, whenever preservation laws, economical consideration, or even architectural and urban contexts, did not permit to do so physically.

The event is a study day is promoted by the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with the EU research project TRACES, the support of the cultural Association MAITE and the patronage of the municipality of Bergamo.