Experiments
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The useful landscape: strategies for better living
The useful landscape: Strategies in times of crisis for better living always - Introductory report Paolo Castelnovi architect, Ligurian, conference organiser and landscapefor.eu website Let us not ask what the landscape does for us, let us ask what we can do for the landscape. This is how we declined the [...]
Room with a view: landscape as a resource for the local economy and quality of life
Opening speech at the seminar in Art Lab10, Turin 1. Landscape is not in things, it is in the gaze. With this premise, artists and poets have displaced those who, like us, have been working on the subject for some time because of its substance: as a cultural asset, as [...]
Council of Europe Landscape Prize, 2008 – 2009 edition
Sistema dei Parchi della Val di Cornia [Pdp 2008-2009. Progetto vincitore] Programma premiato per la capacità organizzativa nella valorizzazione delle risorse culturali e ambientali e nella gestione integrata dei servizi per lo sviluppo locale. Sono state messe a sistema risorse ambientali (litorale balneabile, boschi ad alta biodiversità) e [...]
On the meaning of a semiology of landscape
La semiologia dei paesaggi offre una comprensione profonda di come percepiamo, interagiamo e modelliamo il nostro ambiente, riflettendo la coscienza collettiva nei confronti della natura. Questo studio analizza i vari elementi del paesaggio, dalle sue caratteristiche fisiche alla moltitudine di significati emotivi e simbolici che associamo ad essi. Il tema [...]
Intermediate entities today: for the landscape or/and the landscape for?
The regional authority institutionally covers various competences in relation to the territory, from the control of urban planning on a municipal scale, to territorial planning, to landscape protection; it is a structure that moves on a vast area scale but influences up to the municipal scale. The Piedmont Region has [...]