Experiments
The Foundation’s initiatives, projects, trials to provide innovative cultural services in the face of major social, political and territorial changes
Landscape for democracy
1. The democratic dimensions of landscape. The ancient Commune For years we have considered the Italian piazzas the theatre of the communal democracy. Their main feature according to Louis Kahn is the dimension: the one that allows to recognize a friend that stands on the other side of the piazza. [...]
Landscape to feed the planet
From the Expo, a contradictory setting for a theme that could have been played out with grit by Italy. The lack of relationship between representation and content, between the ability to attract on interesting topics and the behaviour induced in visitors, generates a feeling of waste and regret for a [...]
The enemy’s reasons
On 10 August 1793 on the instructions of the Convention, the Jacobins systematically destroyed the tombs of the French kings, and justified the demolition of the monuments that effigy them, all over France, as ‘symbols of a history to be abolished’, which must not be continued: they wanted to separate [...]
Network perspectives from Symbola
This year, the focus of Fondazone Symbola's summer seminar was on the circular economy, that way of making a supply chain for the total utilisation of production that was structural in the traditional, predominantly agricultural system, with measured if not scarce resources, when hard work and distance counted in the [...]
The sense of landscape
The Sense of Landscape 1 Paolo Castelnovi 1 introductory speech at the conference The Sense of Landscape, Turin - 1998 I show my pupils fragments of a landscape where it is impossible for them to find their way. (L. Wittgenstein , 1946)2 The term ‘sense’, used in [...]