2nd International Workshop on Abruzzos Historical Heritage Castel di Sangro and Scontrone: technologies and design

From 19 to 27 July 2025, the 2nd International Workshop on Abruzzo’s Historical Heritage, dedicated to Castel di Sangro and Scontrone: technologies and design, served as an advanced forum for discussing the relationships between architectural composition, building technologies, and digital tools for the knowledge of historical heritage. Hosted at the Museo Civico Aufidenate—formerly the Convent of Santa Maria Maddalena—in Castel di Sangro, the second edition of the initiative was part of the research programme on Sustainable Strategies for Heritage, aimed at testing the effectiveness of integrated models of analysis, representation, and design. Coordinated by Alessandro Camiz and Daniela Ladiana (Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio”), Burak Asiliskender (Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi) and Mario Rainaldi (Museo Civico Aufidenate), the workshop brought together scholars, researchers, and professionals from several Italian and international institutions. The activities were carried out by faculty members of the Università “Gabriele d’Annunzio” of Chieti–Pescara and of the PhD Programme “Culture del Progetto: Creatività, Patrimonio, Ambiente”, in collaboration with Abdullah Gül University, Politecnico di Torino, Università di Padova, University of Málaga, and the Pinacoteca Patiniana. Interdisciplinarity was not conceived as a merely additive strategy, but as a means to construct a shared operational environment in which the relationships between historical-heritage interpretation, digital representation, and sustainable design strategies could be critically verified.