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The 43rd UID conference, held in Genova, takes up the theme of 'Dialogues' as practice and debate on many fundamental topics in our social life, especially in these complex and not yet resolved times. The city of Genova offers the opportunity to ponder on the value of comparison and on the possibilities for the community, naturally focused on the aspects that concern us, as professors, researchers, disseminators of knowledge, or on all the possibile meanings of the discipline of representation and its dialogue with 'others', which we have broadly catalogued in three macro areas: History, Semiotics, Science / Technology. Therefore, "dialogue" as a profitable exchange based on a common language, without which it is impossible to comprehend and understand one another; and the graphic sign that connotes the conference is the precise transcription of this concept: the title 'translated' into signs, derived from the visual alphabet designed for the visual identity of the UID since 2017. There are many topics which refer to three macro sessions: - Witnessing (signs and history) - Communicating (signs and semiotics) - Experimenting (signs and sciences) Thanks to the different points of view, an exceptional resource of our disciplinary area, we want to try to outline the prevailing theoretical-operational synergies, the collaborative lines of an instrumental nature, the recent updates of the repertoires of images that attest and nourish the relations among representation, history, semiotics, sciences.

The island of Spargi is an extraordinary example of integration between nature and human activities, in particular if we consider the military settlements that have been realized on the island in the last 200 years. A territory of such complexity requires the development of analysis and investigation tools that must be strongly focused on the direct experience of places, considered as the most important strategy to understand them thoroughly. This means to learn how to read the landscape, literally 'incorporating' it through the observer's experience: through feets, eyes, hands and senses. So to understand its physical and cultural characters more closely and in depth. This is ours way of seeing, a fundamental process to conjugate landscape protection and instances of renewal useful for sustainable use. The idea is to overcome the limits of mere conservation, whether referred to a landscape shaped by nature or by human actions, to encourage a wider vision based upon participatory and proactive processes. It is only through use, that a landscape can remain in life, being preserved and protected. The proposed projects underline with various variations this fundamental aspect, proposing a correct preservation through various types of uses of the island's natural space and of its remains of military batteries.