Experiments
The Foundation’s initiatives, projects, trials to provide innovative cultural services in the face of major social, political and territorial changes
Caring for the mountains: from civic uses to the landscape
The sense of caring for places develops in communities that feel themselves the historical and cultural owners of the territorial and therefore landscape heritage they inhabit. The laborious practices of mountain management testify to the complexity of the communities' relationship with places: not only for the sense of identity, but [...]
Agriculture, forests and landscape: opportunities for the attractiveness and development of an area
Rural systems are of interest to those who govern the territory for a plurality of functions, which over time assume different weight and importance. In the Alpine regions, the importance of food production, which is fundamental for a subsistence economy, has been replaced by the importance of the rural system [...]
Council of Europe Landscape Prize, 2010 – 2011 edition
Carbonia: Landscape Machine [PdP 2010-2011 - Winning Project]. Complex programme for the valorisation of a modern landscape (a foundation town) and mining equipment, in a landscape of importance, awarded in Europe in 2011. The site is a Unesco Geopark, an area of interest of the Regional Plan, etc. The [...]
Recognising and re-designing the contemporary city
UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO - SEMINAR TRANSITION ISSUES 1.A transition phase? The news and images of the terrible tragedy in Japan seem to overwhelm any possibility of a rational, scientifically oriented approach to the great questions of contemporary human settlement. Despite the media clamour and the 'demand for truth' that usually [...]
The Landscape between Cohesion and Competitiveness
Landscapes in danger 1.1. Landscape, the face of society. In one of his most intriguing parables (quoted by C.Magris, 1997), J.L. Borges speaks of a painter who sets himself the task of drawing the world, portrays the most diverse landscapes and realises, in the end, 'that that patient labyrinth of [...]