Experiments
The Foundation’s initiatives, projects, trials to provide innovative cultural services in the face of major social, political and territorial changes
AtlasFor: a showcase for Heritage and Active Landscape
The article Stitching up the patchwork of local identities, published in the Doc section of this site, concludes by describing Italy today as the realm of the Sleeping Beauty in her sleep. It is certain that, to initiate a strategy to revive ‘Sleeping Beauty’. a reconnaissance that generically identifies potential [...]
After landscape plans. Strategies for useful landscape practices for local development
The landscape of excellence and cultural assets from ‘unavailable heritage’ to use as a useful resource for a sustainable and innovative local economy model. Balanced utilisation processes are based on the one hand on knowledge and a sense of shared identity of one's own territory as a fundamental part of [...]
The sense (of the sacred) of landscape
Dwelling in the sacred: getting lost without seeking meaning - Attention to the sacred in the landscape - The space of the psychological sacred and the sociological sacred - From discovery to the factory of the sacred Dwelling in the sacred: losing oneself without seeking meaning ‘Behind the Landscape’ is [...]
Landscape care in times of crisis
Who takes on the task of caring for the landscape in a post-rural society, when the mountains are abandoned, and the centre of towns no longer has any identity value for its inhabitants but for others, with short-lived and continually replaced presences? I hear the phrase ‘care of the landscape’ [...]
Council of Europe Landscape Prize, 2012 – 2013 edition
Libera for confiscated lands in the Corleone area [Pdp 2012-2013. Italian candidate]. The Libera Terra project was set up with the aim of enhancing the value of beautiful, yet difficult rural landscape territories, starting from the social and productive recovery of assets freed from the mafias, stimulating local economic [...]