Experiments
The Foundation’s initiatives, projects, trials to provide innovative cultural services in the face of major social, political and territorial changes
The landscape in the eye. Cultural heritage and landscape useful for local development
It is not only cultural heritage but also environmental heritage that is better preserved if it is included in balanced processes of use by conscious communities. Awareness that is based on knowledge and a sense of shared identity of one's own territory as a fundamental part of the landscape and [...]
Landscape who? The forest may burn
Why do catastrophic events have no weight in public opinion, beyond emergency and spectacle? Why do we not take care of the extraordinary maintenance of the house we live in? When the acrid smell and a few wood ashes reach Piazza San Carlo, the people of Turin are alarmed. What? [...]
The useful landscape: strategies for better living
The useful landscape: Strategies in times of crisis for better living always - Introductory report Paolo Castelnovi architect, Ligurian, conference organiser and landscapefor.eu website Let us not ask what the landscape does for us, let us ask what we can do for the landscape. This is how we declined the [...]
Room with a view: landscape as a resource for the local economy and quality of life
Opening speech at the seminar in Art Lab10, Turin 1. Landscape is not in things, it is in the gaze. With this premise, artists and poets have displaced those who, like us, have been working on the subject for some time because of its substance: as a cultural asset, as [...]
Council of Europe Landscape Prize, 2008 – 2009 edition
Sistema dei Parchi della Val di Cornia [Pdp 2008-2009. Progetto vincitore] Programma premiato per la capacità organizzativa nella valorizzazione delle risorse culturali e ambientali e nella gestione integrata dei servizi per lo sviluppo locale. Sono state messe a sistema risorse ambientali (litorale balneabile, boschi ad alta biodiversità) e [...]