Experiments
The Foundation’s initiatives, projects, trials to provide innovative cultural services in the face of major social, political and territorial changes
Abandonment and land-use plans
The plan denies abandonment - Abandonment in the vocabulary of territorial politics - Local development: promoveatur ut amoveatur? - Difficult to reignite the engines - Abandonment as an organic phase of the territorial process - Studying the induced processes of abandonment - From the narrative to the governance of abandonment [...]
The awakening of the landscape generates ruins
Contemporary inhabitants are not fully aware of the historical depth they tread upon and find shelter in every day: the archetypal figure of the ruin dweller is largely unconscious, the tragic aspect lies precisely in the coincidence of cultural distance and physical proximity of the inhabitant with the signs of [...]
Strategies for well-being in the landscape: living, exploring, contemplating
In what dynamics of our inner balance does the landscape relationship flow? We have tried to summarise them in three actions: inhabiting, exploring, contemplating, which must be fulfilled as a whole, at different times and in different spaces In what dynamics of our inner balance does the landscape relationship flow? [...]
The 2012 manifesto
We want to contribute to satisfying one of the most neglected demands for quality of life of our time, which is not offered today, whereas in other eras it was the driving force behind the economy: the pleasure of living. We want to contribute to making productive the social energies [...]
Sense of place and collective identification
The difficult strategy of unifying interventions to enhance the sense of local belonging with those to motivate tourist visits. The need to make the two fundamental drives of identity and exploration complementary. (published in Environmental networks and cities. Urban landscapes and quality of life (Barcelona, 2012) Right from the definition [...]