Experiments
The Foundation’s initiatives, projects, trials to provide innovative cultural services in the face of major social, political and territorial changes
Pissing on the corner is landscaping
Many recent events are more understandable if we recognise the sense of the landscape they evoke: a code that everyone can understand and that is rooted in a deep and disturbing past. The dog being taken for a walk in the evening and Trump opening the US embassy in Jerusalem [...]
There are no landscapes as they were and where they were
The emotion continues, and we are unable to process the earthquake calmly, while the project to re-inhabit the destroyed towns requires lucidity and disenchantment, to find the way between the alienation of new towns and the unrealizable utopia of perfect reconstruction. By some very ancient malady our collective memory is [...]
In vastum stat virtus (politicae)
It is reasoned that there is serious damage to the operational capacities to face the challenges of global change: the disappearance of the vast area as a place for the exercise of politics, a devastating blow pursued for years and finally accomplished with the DelRio reform, with the demolition [...]
There is no hope without a long project
These days in Padua and in a dozen places scattered throughout the Alps and Apennines, a thousand scholars and enthusiasts honour the mountain builder, celebrating the third world meeting of Terraced Landscapes (http://www.terracedlandscapes2016.it/). Since the early Middle Ages, for ten centuries a few dozen generations of mountaineers have built hundreds [...]
I am Apennine, a political lesson from the earthquake villages
Death, which is no longer an organic part of our life, which we remove from our homes and our cities, relegating it to the odorless images of other cities and other homes that television transmits to us. Death, which makes us panicky children without any support when it comes close [...]