Experiments
The Foundation’s initiatives, projects, trials to provide innovative cultural services in the face of major social, political and territorial changes
Strategies for well-being in the landscape: living, exploring, contemplating
In what dynamics of our inner balance does the landscape relationship flow? We have tried to summarise them in three actions: inhabiting, exploring, contemplating, which must be fulfilled as a whole, at different times and in different spaces In what dynamics of our inner balance does the landscape relationship flow? [...]
The 2012 manifesto
We want to contribute to satisfying one of the most neglected demands for quality of life of our time, which is not offered today, whereas in other eras it was the driving force behind the economy: the pleasure of living. We want to contribute to making productive the social energies [...]
Sense of place and collective identification
The difficult strategy of unifying interventions to enhance the sense of local belonging with those to motivate tourist visits. The need to make the two fundamental drives of identity and exploration complementary. (published in Environmental networks and cities. Urban landscapes and quality of life (Barcelona, 2012) Right from the definition [...]
Caring for the mountains: from civic uses to the landscape
The sense of caring for places develops in communities that feel themselves the historical and cultural owners of the territorial and therefore landscape heritage they inhabit. The laborious practices of mountain management testify to the complexity of the communities' relationship with places: not only for the sense of identity, but [...]
Agriculture, forests and landscape: opportunities for the attractiveness and development of an area
Rural systems are of interest to those who govern the territory for a plurality of functions, which over time assume different weight and importance. In the Alpine regions, the importance of food production, which is fundamental for a subsistence economy, has been replaced by the importance of the rural system [...]