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Italian structural engineer Stefano Pampanin is a
professor at the University of Canterbury. He’s been very involved with
the Christchurch earthquakes, as well as
following the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake very closely. Now Stefano
has been made president of the New Zealand Society for EarthQuake Engineering,
in contact with the same institutions present in all the earthquake-prone
countries of the world. We talk about sharing expertise, and what this means for
the recovery of Christchurch.
Luca Quaglia, on the phone from Wellington, talks about his researches
and his work with building materials, his interest in astronomy, and the little
village in the Italian Prealpi where he comes from (via
Parigi…)
Interview with Paul Elenio, on the phone from Wellington, who talks of the just released revised edition of his book Alla fine del mondo at the end of the world, about Italian immigration to Wellington and the Bay of Islands.
