Experiments
The Foundation’s initiatives, projects, trials to provide innovative cultural services in the face of major social, political and territorial changes
Landscape care in times of crisis
Who takes on the task of caring for the landscape in a post-rural society, when the mountains are abandoned, and the centre of towns no longer has any identity value for its inhabitants but for others, with short-lived and continually replaced presences? I hear the phrase ‘care of the landscape’ [...]
Council of Europe Landscape Prize, 2012 – 2013 edition
Libera for confiscated lands in the Corleone area [Pdp 2012-2013. Italian candidate]. The Libera Terra project was set up with the aim of enhancing the value of beautiful, yet difficult rural landscape territories, starting from the social and productive recovery of assets freed from the mafias, stimulating local economic [...]
Restarting the Active Landscape
It is becoming more and more difficult to feel like a citizen of one's own city: nostalgia for the familiar places of the past develops and one feels the need to remain the cultural owner of one's own landscape. In order to enhance the urban landscape, it is necessary to [...]
Cultural assets: to start the engine
Paolo Castelnovi, March 2013 A strategic project to revive politics How was it possible that a project for post-unification Italy devised by a small group of intellectuals, aristocrats and provincial bourgeoisie, in which Culture was assigned a fundamental political task: to build from scratch an inclusive sense of citizenship and [...]
The polysemy of landscape
The cultural landscape, the cognitively perfect landscape of Geo-graphy, the narrative landscape with an aesthetic value, the challenge of the ineffable, for a semiotics of the narrative-aesthetic landscape, the mythical landscape, polysemy as a value. The cultural landscape In dealing with ‘landscape polysemy’ I will take as my starting point [...]