Experiments
The Foundation’s initiatives, projects, trials to provide innovative cultural services in the face of major social, political and territorial changes
On the meaning of a semiology of landscape
The human act of generating new ecological and territorial orders is generally associated with man's quest to imprint his mark on nature, to generate semiotic effects. In this sense, landscape is the result, perceived perceptually, of a self-reflexive moment of human action in nature, finding its justification in the diversity [...]
Intermediate entities today: for the landscape or/and the landscape for?
The regional authority institutionally covers various competences in relation to the territory, from the control of urban planning on a municipal scale, to territorial planning, to landscape protection; it is a structure that moves on a vast area scale but influences up to the municipal scale. The Piedmont Region has [...]
Landscape for local authority management
The effects that the European Landscape Convention (2000) is progressively generating in the policies of local authorities, to promote participatory actions, attention to community spaces and resources, and the formation of extended networks of use. To respond to the specific theme of the conference: what is the landscape for? [...]
Landscape for project teaching
The speakers at this conference - the programme says - are from the non-academic world: why then ask an elderly academic to speak about teaching? I will try to give myself a few answers. The first: because for some time now landscape has been proving to be a useful tool [...]
Landscape for the valorisation of the rural system
The late 1950s and 1960s saw the beginning of a radical change in the rural landscape, which began with the depopulation of the countryside and the rural buildings there. The peasants, in the hope of gaining a more comfortable life with more job opportunities, moved to the cities; this exodus [...]