The Italian Association for Industrial Archaeological Heritage – AIPAI launches the Third States General of the Heritage Industrial. After Venice, Padua, Rome and Tivoli, the States will meet in Bari, Matera and Lecce following an ideal circular path among the multiple heritage realities of production and labor affecting the north, the center and the south of the peninsula. To take stock and develop strategies and visions for the near future, it is essential to set the most fertile conditions to foster discussion among experts and communities as well as the meeting between the multiple operative, research and institutional spheres involved.
Industrial Heritage is made up of what we recognize as extremely relevant from the near past of the labor culture; it is the answer to a question that does not belong only to scholars, but arises first and foremost from communities and companies to understand themselves and help to be prepared for the cultural, socio-economic and environmental challenges of the present and the years to come. Recognition, then, is the result of processes that occupy an important place in the evolutionary dynamics of industrial and post-industrial cities and landscapes. It is therefore strategic to come together to identify and explore the values proper to industrial heritage, both material and intangible, according to the prope rapproaches, developed over more than seventy years, by the world of industrial archaeology.
The congress is divided into nine thematic areas for which submissions can be accepted:

• Single original papers
• One or more sessions composed of up to 4 original papers
• Single paper for Doctoral School

The conference participants have the opportunity to highlight the many paths characterizing the present of Industrial Archaeology to be framed in their forward drives and in light of the roots of that specific area of memory.
Individual contributions and sessions may be presented for one or more of the thematic areas. The specificities are many and concern, on the one hand, material objects and organisms, machine tools, engines, factories, industrial architecture, company buildings, urban, regional and higher infrastructures; on the other hand, documents, the figurative world, products, communication and testimonies that enable the narrative of memory and work culture.
The focus will equally go to knowledge, principles and actions related to the management, use or new life of the factory, architectures and industrial areas, communities, the needs of fruition, musealization, industrial tourism, as well as tools for design and restoration, including the opportunities of digitization and AI in the representation, knowledge, intervention and fruition of heritage and lost heritage.

Thematic areas

1. Machinery, patents and historical production cycles of industrial heritage
   edited by Renato Covino, Antonio Monte, Laura Severi
2. Cities and landscapes of industry and labor
   edited by David Celetti, Giovanni Luigi Fontana, Massimo Preite, Silvia Tardella
3. Territorial and urban infrastructures
   edited by Massimo Bottini, Franco Mancuso, Stefania Mornati, Palmina Trabocchi
4. Design and construction for industry
   edited by Edoardo Currà, Ilaria Giannetti, Antonella Guida, Cesira Paolini, Martina Russo, Augusto Vitale
5. History, culture and memory of industry and labor: research, archives, museums and practices of valorization
   edited by Marco Bertilorenzi, David Celetti, Amedeo Lepore, Carolina Lussana, Massimo Negri, Roberto Lorenzetti, Luca Zan
6. Digitization and AI of industrial heritage: knowledge, design, management and fruition
   edited by Elena Cantatore, Cassia De Lian Cui, Edoardo Currà, Mariella De Fino, Fabio Fatiguso, Silvana Bruno
7. Restoration and conservation of industrial heritage
   edited by Marina Docci, Claudio Menichelli, Cristina Natoli, Rita Vecchiattini, Graziella Bernardo, Alessandro Mattioli
8. Reuse and practices of urban and environmental regeneration
   edited by Sara De Maestri, Antonella Guida, Rossella Maspoli, Cristina Natoli, Vito Domenico Porcari, Marina Pugnaletto, Manuel Ramello
9. Industrial tourism, cultural routes, experiences of fruition
   edited by Francesco Antoniol, Massimo Bottini, Maria Elena Castore, Rossella Maspoli, Massimo Preite, Giorgio Ravasio
10. Image, cinematography, digital media and industry communication
    edited by Luca Borghini, Renè Capovin, Palmina Trabocchi, Fabrizio Trisoglio