The workshop will be held in the "Auditorium De Carlo" of the “Monastero dei Benedettini”. Outside, the Auditorium  de Carlo looks like a simple volume with an almost squared plan layout, but inside it offers a dynamic and polycentric space. The event can take place on three different points of view at different levels. It can take place using one point of view or the other, or two, or all of them simultaneously. The armchairs (“xenitia”) with beech plywood shells (designed by Giancarlo De Carlo) can rotate to allow visibility for more than 200 degrees. This offers to odiens and speakers a dynamic spatial perception that wants to be the physical representation of the common root of the themes of EWICS, irregularity/complexity of structures subjected to seismic excitation. The "Monastero dei Benedettini" is one of the largest Monastery of Europe. The history of this jewel of the late Sicilian Baroque is symbiotically related to that of Catania. They share the same resilience against the two last natural calamities, the lava eruption of 1669 and the earthquake of 1693, when they were both destroyed and proudly rebuilt. The site of the Workshop (Monastero dei Benedettini) is located in the city centre and may be easily reached by bus, subway or taxi. The main entrance of the monastry complex is located in Piazza Dante Alighieri, 32 (see  it in the map reported below or locate it by GoogleMap).