Film Commission Torino Piemonte

7 September 1908, late summer: into a sultry Polytechnic classroom, a graduation commission is puzzled, though not because of the evaluation. With which professional title will they deliberate in favour of Emma Strada, the young woman waiting outside? The members are torn between Ingegnere (the male form) and Ingegneressa (the female form); at the end, they will stick with the male form. 114 years later, we know what the correct form is: Emma Strada is the first Ingegnera (female engineer) in Italy, while Ada Bursi is the first registered female architect in Piedmont. They are the protagonists, two pioneers in the construction field who worked in Turin, facing society, with professionalism and bravery, working and thriving in male-dominated fields. Emma Strada, 1884, worked in his father's studio, developing rails, routes, aqueducts all over Italy, Ada Bursi instead was born in 1906 in Verona, and will move in her teens to Turin. Following an artistic education, she obtained a degree in architecture in 1938 and for 35 years she worked in the Municipality’s construction office, contributing to rebuilding the city after WWII and offering to the community her capabilities and artistic sensitivity.