Experiments
The Foundation’s initiatives, projects, trials to provide innovative cultural services in the face of major social, political and territorial changes
Landscape for local authority management
The effects that the European Landscape Convention (2000) is progressively generating in the policies of local authorities, to promote participatory actions, attention to community spaces and resources, and the formation of extended networks of use. To respond to the specific theme of the conference: what is the landscape for? [...]
Landscape for project teaching
The speakers at this conference - the programme says - are from the non-academic world: why then ask an elderly academic to speak about teaching? I will try to give myself a few answers. The first: because for some time now landscape has been proving to be a useful tool [...]
Landscape for the valorisation of the rural system
The late 1950s and 1960s saw the beginning of a radical change in the rural landscape, which began with the depopulation of the countryside and the rural buildings there. The peasants, in the hope of gaining a more comfortable life with more job opportunities, moved to the cities; this exodus [...]
Landscape for the innovative enterprise
Innovative enterprises are an economic entity that is emerging with a specific identity: a kind of fourth capitalism. They are ‘pocket-sized’ multinationals or territorial enterprises that have restructured production districts, built new supply chains, invented new forms of supplier relations, incorporated knowledge and research capabilities, and created garrisons in international [...]
The cartographer-biographer as actor in the representation of shared space
Place, landscape and territory are united by being both subject and object of the action that is produced in the interaction with local communities. Individuals interpret the characteristics of a physical context, the same ones that participate in the definition of traits of their identity, and produce transformation actions. The [...]