PEOPLE ORGANISING REDEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGY SUSTAINABILITY (PORTS)

Territories having a port are home to communities and have particular climates and atmosphere. The port is the place of a collective identity. Here everything can arrive and everything can depart or start. Port’s life has its rhythms punctuating the cyclical time, daily, seasonal, and yet it imposes the exceptionality, the sudden and the unexpected. Each port community is unique and in the course of the years has developed uses and traditions that make it similar and different from the others. Today ports are overwhelmed by modernity, as elsewhere plastic replaces the wood, the automation carries more and more pollution, the habitat itself, altered by port activities, collects the blows of a pressing development. Our students aim to explore the various biotic and abiotic environmental parameters of certain ports. At the same time, they intend to record and mark out the various productive port activities, as well as history and culture. Very often, though, human activities disturb the ecological balance. Finishing our project, we hope to have sensitized the local communities and the authorities to take measures for rational use of the ports aiming to their sustenance.