Experiments
The Foundation’s initiatives, projects, trials to provide innovative cultural services in the face of major social, political and territorial changes
Council of Europe Landscape Prize, 2010 – 2011 edition
Carbonia: Landscape Machine [PdP 2010-2011 - Winning Project]. Complex programme for the valorisation of a modern landscape (a foundation town) and mining equipment, in a landscape of importance, awarded in Europe in 2011. The site is a Unesco Geopark, an area of interest of the Regional Plan, etc. The [...]
Recognising and re-designing the contemporary city
UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO - SEMINAR TRANSITION ISSUES 1.A transition phase? The news and images of the terrible tragedy in Japan seem to overwhelm any possibility of a rational, scientifically oriented approach to the great questions of contemporary human settlement. Despite the media clamour and the 'demand for truth' that usually [...]
The Landscape between Cohesion and Competitiveness
Landscapes in danger 1.1. Landscape, the face of society. In one of his most intriguing parables (quoted by C.Magris, 1997), J.L. Borges speaks of a painter who sets himself the task of drawing the world, portrays the most diverse landscapes and realises, in the end, 'that that patient labyrinth of [...]
The landscape in the eye. Cultural heritage and landscape useful for local development
It is not only cultural heritage but also environmental heritage that is better preserved if it is included in balanced processes of use by conscious communities. Awareness that is based on knowledge and a sense of shared identity of one's own territory as a fundamental part of the landscape and [...]
Landscape who? The forest may burn
Why do catastrophic events have no weight in public opinion, beyond emergency and spectacle? Why do we not take care of the extraordinary maintenance of the house we live in? When the acrid smell and a few wood ashes reach Piazza San Carlo, the people of Turin are alarmed. What? [...]