Experiments
The Foundation’s initiatives, projects, trials to provide innovative cultural services in the face of major social, political and territorial changes
The enemy’s reasons
On 10 August 1793 on the instructions of the Convention, the Jacobins systematically destroyed the tombs of the French kings, and justified the demolition of the monuments that effigy them, all over France, as ‘symbols of a history to be abolished’, which must not be continued: they wanted to separate [...]
Network perspectives from Symbola
This year, the focus of Fondazone Symbola's summer seminar was on the circular economy, that way of making a supply chain for the total utilisation of production that was structural in the traditional, predominantly agricultural system, with measured if not scarce resources, when hard work and distance counted in the [...]
The sense of landscape
The Sense of Landscape 1 Paolo Castelnovi 1 introductory speech at the conference The Sense of Landscape, Turin - 1998 I show my pupils fragments of a landscape where it is impossible for them to find their way. (L. Wittgenstein , 1946)2 The term ‘sense’, used in [...]
Plans by Plan
Why, o malia, does Piano's Redevelopment of the Suburbs meet with unanimous acclaim? The question becomes intriguing if we add: why have the dramatic alarms and appeals about the suburbs themselves, invoked by generations of urban planners, sociologists and engineers, been neglected by the political debate for decades and relegated [...]
The third view of the landscape project
Identity and exploration in landscape design - The third view to appreciate the landscape - The landscape to regain identity - The landscape sense of the inhabitant and the tourist - Who is landscape designed for? - The connotations of landscape as natural culture - The connotations of landscape design [...]