Experiments
The Foundation’s initiatives, projects, trials to provide innovative cultural services in the face of major social, political and territorial changes
Restarting the Active Landscape
It is becoming more and more difficult to feel like a citizen of one's own city: nostalgia for the familiar places of the past develops and one feels the need to remain the cultural owner of one's own landscape. In order to enhance the urban landscape, it is necessary to [...]
Cultural assets: to start the engine
Paolo Castelnovi, March 2013 A strategic project to revive politics How was it possible that a project for post-unification Italy devised by a small group of intellectuals, aristocrats and provincial bourgeoisie, in which Culture was assigned a fundamental political task: to build from scratch an inclusive sense of citizenship and [...]
The polysemy of landscape
The cultural landscape, the cognitively perfect landscape of Geo-graphy, the narrative landscape with an aesthetic value, the challenge of the ineffable, for a semiotics of the narrative-aesthetic landscape, the mythical landscape, polysemy as a value. The cultural landscape In dealing with ‘landscape polysemy’ I will take as my starting point [...]
Abandonment and land-use plans
The plan denies abandonment - Abandonment in the vocabulary of territorial politics - Local development: promoveatur ut amoveatur? - Difficult to reignite the engines - Abandonment as an organic phase of the territorial process - Studying the induced processes of abandonment - From the narrative to the governance of abandonment [...]
The awakening of the landscape generates ruins
Contemporary inhabitants are not fully aware of the historical depth they tread upon and find shelter in every day: the archetypal figure of the ruin dweller is largely unconscious, the tragic aspect lies precisely in the coincidence of cultural distance and physical proximity of the inhabitant with the signs of [...]