Experiments
The Foundation’s initiatives, projects, trials to provide innovative cultural services in the face of major social, political and territorial changes
Landscape for ethical investment
A topic of particular interest today is the relationship established in recent years between banking foundations and the landscape. Foundations are not functional parts of their generating entity, the banks, but are conversely independent from them; they are subjects of social freedoms, according to the definition given by the Constitutional [...]
50 YEARS. ANCSA 1960-2010
1990 - 2010 A premise To pick up the thread of a story interrupted in 1990, ANCSA's thirtieth anniversary, in order to outline the association's activities and the changes that have redefined its identity over the last twenty years is not immediate. The story of ANCSA reflects the conditions of [...]
Landscape topicality
Why do so many different disciplines, politicians and social and cultural actors pay so much attention to the subject of landscape? Because landscape is not a private affair of cultural elites or professional categories. But there is a ‘landscape question’ that concerns contemporary society and invests political action, requiring acuity [...]
Landscape Planning: invariants and criticalities
in Maria Mautone and Maria Ronza (eds.), Cultural heritage and landscape: a supply chain approach for territorial planning, Rome, Gangemi publisher 2009 Abstract Landscape analysis and planning are becoming increasingly important in spatial governance processes, in relation to the aggravation of many environmental problems and their complex interference with social [...]
Landscape as value creation: three key questions
I. Landscape as a confrontation ground In the last decade, especially since the European Landscape Convention (EC, 2000), spatial planning experiences, government practices and international debate have given landscape a growing political and cultural relevance. The landscape has increasingly become, from a simple object of study, a frontier terrain, a [...]