Reframing the relationships between people and place 20 years ago, the European Landscape Convention (Florence 2000) saw the potential of a fully integrated landscape perspective to contribute to a more sustainable relationship between society and environment based on the recognition of mutual co-dependency. Since the year 2000, new challenges and opportunities have entered the scene. Concerns around climate change, food and energy security, wellbeing, public health (e.g., pandemics), biodiversity loss, globalization, to mention but a few, are now central to societal and political … [Read more...] about Manifesto on the Future of the European Landscape
CONFERENCES
Challenges | Living Lab
Thematic roundtable | Cultivating continuity – one year after 23 October – 9.30 Has landscape, the most subjective and aesthetic model of Earth, being generated subjectively ‘in seeing’, secretly maintained and rendered visible, the intimate relationship between us and that terrestrial materiality that we ‘live from’ even if do not necessarily ‘live in’? Landscape ‘as perceived’ has persistently cultivated our inseparability from all existential as well as emotional components that life is made of, by generating this coexistence of nature and culture as it functions in ‘our eyes’. Between … [Read more...] about Challenges | Living Lab
Perceptions, Concepts and Visions for Terraced Landscapes
Landscape Atelier/ Cultivating continuity one year after 23 October 2021 – 15.30 Widening our horizon towards Bhutan 2022 applying the ELC and local knowledge Terraces are sources of cultural identity and a component of cultural heritage, which have been abandoned in many regions of Europe. They constitute a foundation for local people’s identity and a resource favourable to economic activity, especially for family farms and new collectives producing healthy food. From the point of view of the agro-industry terraced landscapes are marginal and unproductive, politically they are neglected … [Read more...] about Perceptions, Concepts and Visions for Terraced Landscapes
IUAV Landscapes
Landscape Atelier/ Cultivating continuity one year after 23 October 2021 – 15.30 ON VIDEO (Italian) IUAV LANDSCAPES Integrated Research and Teaching Perspectives PAESAGGI IUAV prospettive di ricerca e didattica integrata edited by Margherita Vanore (Università Iuav di Venezia, Department of Architecture and Arts) with PRIDE Laboratory (Pro Research in Integral Design Environment), Research Infrastructure IR.IDE The seminar aims to bring out what significant has being prefigured at the Iuav University of Venice on issues concerning Landscape, considered in its various expressive … [Read more...] about IUAV Landscapes
Reinventing public spaces
Landscape Atelier/ Cultivating continuity one year after 23 October 2021 – 17.o0 Landscape design exercises on Largo Annigoni, Florence Il workshop, a carattere intensivo e interdisciplinare, è finalizzato all’elaborazione di proposte progettuali per la riorganizzazione di uno spazio aperto urbano, Largo Annigoni, del centro storico fiorentino. Si tratta di un nodo della città pubblica che negli ultimi venti anni è stato oggetto di una sequenza ravvicinata di lavori di trasformazione (la realizzazione di un parcheggio sotterraneo, l’inserimento del nuovo Mercato delle Pulci, l’apertura … [Read more...] about Reinventing public spaces
Landscape Design and Time
Thematic roundtable | Cultivating continuity – one year after 23 October – 9.30 The Thematic Round Table “Landscape Design and Time” will concern the issues of making landscape, here intended in the sense of its production and its continuous transformation depending on a project, that is to say on a complex prefiguration of places, resources, spaces, nature, constructions, physical and cultural relationships, elaborated by design experts able to integrate competences on the basis of a shared vision of the future from which the actions, processes and forms of the territory derive their … [Read more...] about Landscape Design and Time