7th ISUFitaly International Conference, Naples 18-20 February 2026
CITY RENEWAL AND URBAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Morphological Value of City’s Traces
University of Naples “Federico II”
DiARC Department of Architecture
Palazzo Gravina
via Monteoliveto, 3
80134, Napoli
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
ISUFitaly, International Seminar on Urban Form, Italian Network,
organizes its seventh Conference in Naples on 19-21 February 2026.
The theme of the conference is City Renewal and Urban Archaeology.
Morphological Value of City’s Traces. Following the previous ISUFitaly conferences themes, dealing mainly with the relationships between urban morphology, history and architectural design, the seventh Conference aims to pose the problem of the relationship between the emergence of urban archaeological traces and the often conspicuous morphological value that this formal legacy can potentially generate through urban design as tool to establish links between contemporary city and artefacts from the past: through the creation of large-scale urban archaeological parks or the construction of archaeological roofs; through establishing unprecedented relationship with infrastructures related to underground level different form those of the city ‘in surface’. The theme of urban continuity/discontinuity
in the contemporary city and the role of urban architecture as a necessary intermediary, or condition of possibilities, between the historical city, the public space and possible congruent transformations in the contemporary age, are thus re-proposed.
The organisers and the ISUFitaly Council invite participation in the Conference by Italian and international academics and interested professionals. PhD students who have completed or are completing their research degree are also invited to take part.
Several excursions will be featured in the city (Ancient Naples and Metro-stations of Archaeology) and in the archaeological sites of the surroundings (Pompeii, Herculaneum,
Flegreian Fields) where the relationship between the cityand urban archaeology is significant.
Topics on which proposals are particularly welcome include:
Theories of the city’s interpretation
- Theory of urban form
- Composition of urban orders
- Ancient city/contemporary city
- Primary elements/urban fabrics
- Theories and methods of morphological analysis in the historical cities
Reading urban form
- Morphological analysis of historical fabrics
- Spatial analysis of the urban form
- Reading urban archaeology as a tool for the regeneration and renewal of the city
- Dialectical relationship between underlying forms (Ichnoi) and emerging forms
Urban design for urban archaeology
- Ancient city, consolidated city and contemporary project
- Historical fabric and contemporary project
- Archaeological parks in the consolidated city
- Urban archaeology and public space
- Urban Archaeology and infrastructure
Proposals will take the form of abstracts of papers. They will be prepared in the following format: title of paper, author(s) name, affiliation, address, e-mail address, telephone number, keywords and 250-word abstract.
They should be emailed to isufnapoli2026@gmail.com. The abstract template is available at https://www.isufitaly.it/. Abstracts of papers must be received on or before 13rd October 2025.
Abstracts of papers must be received on or before 13rd October. After that date the registration fee required will be € 250,00 (to be paid by 9th January 2026) The fee for students is reduced to € 100,00 by 12th November 2025. After that date, the registration fee required for students will be € 130,00 (to be paid by 9th January 2026). The registration fee includes 12 months’ membership of ISUFitaly. Following acceptance of abstracts, submitted full papers will not exceed 4.000 words. They should be received until 25th January 2026, emailed to isufnapoli2026@gmail.com. The paper format is available at
https://www.isufitaly.it/. Authors should consult the Notes for the Guidance of Contributors
to Urban Morphology, available on the ISUF website (www.urbanform.org) or in recent copies of the journal, before preparing their papers. All papers will be published after the conference. The official conference language is English (one session in Italian may be provided). Enquiries and suggestions concerning the conference should be forwarded to: isufnapoli2026@gmail.com
Notification of whether abstracts have been accepted will be provided by 17th November 2025. To have their papers included in the conference programme, those whose abstracts have been accepted will be required to pay o € 200,00 registration fee by 12th November
Conference Chairs
Renato Capozzi, University of Naples “Federico II”; Giuseppe Strappa, Sapienza University of Rome, Federica Visconti, University of Naples “Federico II”
Scientific Committee
Anna Rita Amato; Carlo Bianchini; Alfredo Buccaro; Alessandro Camiz; Renato Capozzi; Alessandra Capuano; Paolo Carlotti; Paolo Carafa; Orazio Carpenzano; Giancarlo Cataldi; Carlos Coelho; Miguel Ángel de la Iglesia Santamaría; Francois Dufaux; Daniela Esposito;
Massimo Ferrari; Luisa Ferro; Riccardo Florio; Loredana Ficarelli; Luigi Franciosini; Pierre Gauthier; Malgorzata Hanzl; Matteo leva; Anna Agata Kantarek; Nadia Karalambous; Aise Sema Kubat; Pierre Larochelle; Gino Malacarne; Pasquale Miano; Teresa Marat Mendes;
Marco Maretto; Nicola Marzot; Carlo Moccia; Dina Nencini; José Miguel Noguera Celdrán; Vitor Oliveira; Lilia Pagano; Andrea Pane; Giorgio Peghin; Attilio Petruccioli; Valeria Pezza; Renata Picone; Carmine Piscopo; Carlo Quintelli; Renato Rizzi; Giorgio Rocco; Valentina
Russo; Marella Santangelo; lvor Samuels; Nicola Scardigno; Uwe Schröder; Andrea Sciascia; Giuseppe Strappa; Fabrizio Toppetti; Marco Trisciuoglio; Federica Visconti; Giuliano Volpe; Michele Zampilli, Gabriel Zuchtriegel.
Organizing Committee
Alessandro Camiz, “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara; Renato Capozzi, University
of Naples “Federico II”; Bruna Di Palma, University of Naples “Federico II”; Mattero Ieva, Polytechnic University of Bari; Lilia Pagano, University of Naples “Federico II”; Federica Visconti, University of Naples “Federico II”
Conference Office
Luigi Cappelli; Francesca Coppolino; Anna Sanseverino; Giovangiuseppe Vannelli; Ersilia Fiore; Alessandra Veropalumbo; Oreste Lubrano; Laura De Riso; Daniele Salvatore Lombardi; Parastou Mollahosseinali
