Donatella Rita Fiorino
Visiting Researcher
Donatella Donatella is an Associate Professor of Restoration at the Department of Civil-Environmental and Architectural Engineering (DICAAR), University of Cagliari, where she teaches Laboratory of Survey and Restoration and Restoration worksites within the Master of Architecture; module of Restoration within the Degree Course in Techniques for Building Construction and Land Development (TET). She member of the Organizing Committee of the School of Specialization in Architectural Heritage and Landscape, where she teaches Archaeological Restoration; Laws, processes and methods for the restoration design; Restoration of the Modern Architecture. She is also a member of the Academic Board of the PhD in Civil Engineering and Architecture at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Cagliari (from cycle XXXIII) and the Academic Board of the PhD of National Interest in Defense against natural hazards and ecological transition of the built Heritage (University of Catania). After the master degree in Civil Engineering (Cagliari, 1999) and a PhD in Conservation of Architectural Heritage (Milano, 2005), she speialized in Restoration of Monuments (Milano, 2007). From 2010 to 2015 she was Architect for the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Tourism where she dealt with architectural and landscape preservation, cataloguing and management of Cultural Heritage through information systems and ICT. She also coordinated the technical department of public works. From 2012 to 2019 she held the role of Temporary Researcher (ex art. 24, c.3, letter a) and b) of L. 240/2010) at the University of Cagliari, becoming Associate Professor in 2019. Donatella’s research focuses on the recognition and analysis of cultural heritage, even in terms of National Risk Charter and UNESCO Management Plans; archaeology, archaeometry, archaeology of built heritage and urban stratigraphy; framework and quality of restoration project for cultural heritage. Currently, she works on mensiocronological study of monumental architecture in Sardinia, and in particular, of wide urban religious complexes, rural churches, fortified systems and city walls, modern military architectures, including the development of information systems for management and interpolation of data. In parallel, she conducts research on the history of the protection in Italy and on archaeological protection of prehistoric heritage, with specific regards to the Sardinian 'houses of fairies', leading the group responsible for assessing the conservation status of the UNESCO nomination dossier. Since 2018 she has been the scientific manager of the Collaboration Agreement signed on 18 September 2018 between the University of Cagliari and the Ministry of Defence - General Secretariat of Defence on research and training activities in the field of engineering and architecture, full member of the Scientific Technical Committee and coordinator of the project technical boards. In the field of military heritage, she has coordinated and was involved in several national and international events, delivering lectures and speeches on the identification, understanding, protection and reuse of military sites, with specific regards to forts, barracks, seaplane and airports, bunkers and shelters, cold war infrastructures. She is author of books, papers in national and international scientific journals and contributes in conference proceedings. She collaborates with several universities and national and international research Institutions, including the Universities of Edinburgh, Portsmouth, Lubjana and Lisbon; she is a member of the Italian Society of Restoration of Architecture (SIRA), Member and Secretary of the National Scientific Commitee of the Italian Institute for Castles, Expert Member for ICOFORT and member of ICOMOS Italy.
