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Di Lauro, A. (2024). The Creative Time of Gardens: From Microcosm to Landscape Infrastructure. In: Agnoletti, M., Dobričič, S., Matteini, T., Palerm, J.M. (eds) Cultivating Continuity of the European Landscape. Environmental History, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25713...

The accelerated rhythms of the Internet’s world greatly affect the contemporary space which co... more The accelerated rhythms of the Internet’s world greatly affect the contemporary space which consequently has become more fluid and mutable.
Landscape reflects the complex transformations of our time, identifying metamorphosis and dynamism as values: an "aesthetics of a creative time" that has always been the expressive tool, essential and intentional, of the landscape project. Landscape changes through biological and social times: today it reveals a mixture between fast events of society and slower evolution of places, due to the nature and the human work. The interpretation and the arrangement of the landscape transformation is a central issue to prefigure sustainable scenarios through a shared vision of the future.
The large scale projects, marked by sprawling area and long times, are often asynchronous respect to the rapidity of global changes; instead, the garden offers the possibility of keeping up with the “temporal and space compression" of the world.
The garden is a "microcosm" in which short and long times of the landscape - the immediacy of daily life, the slower transformations of territories, the perpetual renewal of nature - converge and amplify themselves in a narrative of symbols and metaphors. Here, more than elsewhere, the “contemporaneity” - as temporal span of human life - expresses itself as landscape, in complex relationships of past, present and future.
In every time and place, the garden, while satisfying the needs of its own society, represents a "laboratory of thought" that anticipates ideologies, culture, technologies by which inhabitants relate themselves to the environment and perceive it as landscape.
Thus, it is a place where collective stories, urban conflicts and social aspirations, meet each other. Here, the project issues can be reconsidered and combined with a design language able to express the social values.
This paper addresses how the garden as an “ethical-aesthetic image” may reveal future scenarios of transformation on a larger scale. The garden’s project is considered as a field test, i.e. a "minimum landscape" that, even if punctual and short-term, anticipates wider and long-term strategies. It is closed and fenced by definition, but open and dynamic at the same time and able to exchange information with the outside. Nowadays, it allows us to direct the creative action of time on the open landscape infrastructures, with an integrated vision across different scales.

Ri-Vista. Research for landscape architecture, 2022

In contemporary cities, closure and individualism predominate at the expense of ‘mixing’ and incl... more In contemporary cities, closure and individualism predominate at the expense of ‘mixing’ and inclusion. By structuring the territories around the principles of speed and globalization, the Net has generated ‘weak links’ of social interaction that are reflected in a public space devoid of identity, used quickly and in solitude, dominated by the fear of the difference and by indifference. In opposition to these dynamics, the importance of collaboration emerges, the central value of an open city in which technology and society become resources to reconcile global and local, individual and community. In this direction, at the scale of public space, the collaborative actions of urban events and the bottom-up practices work on the immaterial component of the project: co-design processes guide the interventions of citizens, collectives and associations in the rediscovery of identity values, cultural meanings and emotions associated with places. The public space becomes a place of interacti...

Il riciclo di aree ed edifici abbandonati si pone oggi come priorità per avviare logiche di svilu... more Il riciclo di aree ed edifici abbandonati si pone oggi come priorità per avviare logiche di sviluppo sostenibile soprattutto nel contesto urbano, dove gli effetti della modernità sono maggiormente visibili nell’immagine di un paesaggio frammentato, standardizzato e omologato, in cui i luoghi sono svuotati di senso. Gli spazi irrisolti della modernità richiedono strategie di intervento basate su una logica di rete, capace di ricostruire il sistema unitario del paesaggio in tutte le sue relazioni fisiche e immateriali. E’ evidente che il riciclo non può limitarsi alla restituzione del solo valore funzionale ma deve comportare anche e soprattutto il ripristino di quelle relazioni che esprimono nella corrispondenza tra segno e azione [Turri, E. (2008), Antropologia del paesaggio, Marsilio, Venezia, pag 138] il sistema di valori identitari, storici, culturali che l’industrializzazione e la globalizzazione hanno dissolto. In quest’ottica è riconosciuto all’abitante un ruolo di primo piano dalla CEP. E’ l’abitante artefice del proprio ambiente di vita, come la comunità del paesaggio, opera collettiva in cui si riconosce. La partecipazione è dunque intesa come diritto e dovere che ogni individuo è chiamato a svolgere attivamente, interpretando il ruolo di attore/spettatore che nella contemporaneità riconquista la scena del teatro paesaggio [Turri, E. (2010), Il paesaggio come teatro. Dal territorio vissuto al territorio rappresentato, Marsilio, Venezia, pag 13].
Un contributo importante nell’era dell’informazione è svolto dalle tecnologie di informazione e comunicazione (ICT) che oltre a facilitare lo scambio di dati, conoscenza e sapere, operano un cambio di mentalità in numerosi campi della società contemporanea, in linea con quella che Levy definisce “intelligenza collettiva” [Levy P. (2002), Intelligenza collettiva. Per un’antropologia del cyberspazio, Feltrinelli, Milano] e che trova la sua attuazione nelle comunità open surce e peer to peer, prese a modello anche nel campo delle imprese e del design....

Landscape is a product of community that lives there, it is a collective artwork: quality, sustai... more Landscape is a product of community that lives there, it is a collective artwork: quality, sustainability, contemporary beauty of places can’t be separated from culture sharing, ideas and values associated to living space, finding in collaboration for common goals and strategies the highest expression.
From this assertion the paper investigates, through three key issues, the growing awareness of cohousing principles in contemporary urban space, affected by new structure of the “information age”:
- The sharing economy, the widespread of information and communication technologies
(ICT) and a newfound attention to ecology extend effectiveness of cohousing policies from residential space to all urban areas in which community becomes essential resource for sustainable redevelopment of urban and architectonic assets. ICT, sharing and ecology, three paradigms result of the “network society”, interact in contemporary cities to solve urban problems and define new shared management of city;
- ICT use increases possibility of network strategies centered on inhabitants: Internet allows social relations strengthening, facilitates information exchange and support collaboration. Associations, committees, groups find themselves on the web as virtual communities to intercepting new interaction modes and locations that replace consolidated public spaces;
- From co-creation projects on the web, model "many to many" invades urban reality in which people aggregate spontaneously to express needs and develop solutions. Creative communities and urban makers reappropriate living places and define new collective sites reassigning identity, values, functions in degraded areas and abandoned buildings with self-organized and collaborative actions based on recycling of existing, social innovation, community empowerment.
In conclusion “collective living” becomes a co-design process of landscape: recognized and supported by institutions and designers allows collaborative strategies for redevelopment of degraded and abandoned places, from house, to public space, to neighborhood and territory, able to configure “sharing landscapes”.

L’op-posizione autoriale/politico invita a riflettere su un aspetto essenziale del concetto di re... more L’op-posizione autoriale/politico invita a riflettere su un aspetto essenziale del concetto di re-cycle inteso nella sua accezione “politica” di amministrazione e governo dei paesaggi del rifiuto come strategia collaborativa capace di restituire valore (economico, culturale, sociale) ad aree e manufatti la cui condizione di degrado e abbandono compromette la possibilità di avviare logiche territoriali sostenibili...

Perception landscape by local communities is a key aspect that provides guidelines for possible s... more Perception landscape by local communities is a key aspect that provides guidelines for possible sustainable development of places in continuity with history and local traditions.
For this reason,The European Landscape Convention recognizes the landscape observatory as an essential tool of landscape that, from it’s image as perceived by inhabitants, allows us to define projects consistent with the identity of places.
New tools from the Internet world enable the development of innovative strategies for monitoring, protection and landscape design.The continuity between physical space and virtual flows generate hybrid realities that shape new geographies: web 2.0 allows definition of shared and custom maps as expressions of social and anthropological dimensions of places and not only geometric space but telling a community connected to places. Cybergeography is produced from communication by Internet users and it becomes a new tool for investigation of contemporary landscape, it allows us to: read and interpret places such as customs, habits and movements of people that reveal immaterial aspects, result of culture, behavior and desires of community.
“Tracking” and “tagging” define new ways to write and access sites that tell the landscapes unpublished: stories and tales connected to places around the world and within an urban environment, itinerary images, videos and sounds made on site or associated with them.
Especially in abandoned, degraded and everyday landscapes neglected in policies of territory government, are effective project tools highlighting intangible aspect of landscape. People become actors and authors of individual and collective stories that tell specific issues related to landscape which contribute in an active way to redefine the often absent collective imagination. This is essential for the recovery of landscape networks deleted by modern changes and are therefore a bridge that reconnects past and future, a point from which to re-start.

“Tactical urbanism”, “do it yourself”, “urban hakers action” are bottom-up processes that creativ... more “Tactical urbanism”, “do it yourself”, “urban hakers action” are bottom-up processes that creative communities or urban makers carry out to focus attention on requirements and needs of contemporary living city, often ignored by local authorities, but suffered by people who lives daily degraded, marginal and peripheral buildings and areas.
This informal architectures and artistic performance is produced by inhabitants that rediscover “waste landscapes” through new social relations, culture, values, economy to resolve hardships and practical difficulties in urban sites. Actions considered initially as illegal invasions of public spaces are now being recognized as opportunity for sustainable development, in respect of environment, local identity, people.
Legal buildings and spaces that often don’t have the role of socialization and sharing sites, taking functions related to economic well-being rather than life quality of inhabitants, are replaced, today, by new social places that, through creativity, self-organization, problem solving and collaboration, respond better of top down projects to ideas and needs of community, social welfare requirements and sustainability.
From self-construction processes, typical of southern communities, that through practical and economical solutions adapt living space to needs and demands, initiatives ephemeral, temporary works, recycle projects prove to be viable alternatives to solve contemporary city problems.
From a illegality position these practices become legal, recognized and encouraged by government as alternative possibilities for city shared management.

Con l’approvazione della Legge n.62 del 4 dicembre 2012 la Regione Calabria «promuove la costituz... more Con l’approvazione della Legge n.62 del 4 dicembre 2012 la Regione Calabria «promuove la costituzione, il riconoscimento e lo sviluppo degli ecomusei con l’obiettivo di ricostruire, testimoniare, valorizzare e accompagnare nel loro sviluppo, la memoria storica, la vita locale, la cultura materiale e immateriale e quella del paesaggio, le relazioni fra ambiente naturale ed ambiente antropizzato, le tradizioni, la ricostruzione e la trasformazione degli ambienti di vita e di lavoro delle comunità locali». La legge riconosce la tutela del patrimonio culturale ed etno-antropoligico calabrese come possibilità di sviluppo locale sostenibile.
In continuità con le direttive regionali la proposta di ecomuseo nel Basso Tirreno Reggino mira alla promozione di tre contesti paesaggistici di grande pregio della provincia di Reggio Calabria attraverso un sistema integrato di azioni e interventi che, a partire dal riconoscimento del patrimonio locale come risorsa, riattivi l’economia dei luoghi. I paesaggi della Vallata del Gallico, della Costa Viola e del Parco d’Aspromonte, pur coinvolti da anni in processi di salvaguardia e recupero, continuano ad essere soggetti a fenomeni inarrestabili di degrado e spopolamento. L’economia di questi territori appare fortemente compromessa dai processi industriali e di globalizzazione che hanno generato l’abbandono delle attività produttive strategiche. A livello locale, nel territorio reggino, assistiamo a fenomeni che in modo diverso si manifestano oggi in tutto il mondo, frutto dei rapidi mutamenti che destabilizzano la struttura della società, nel passaggio dall’era industriale e post-industriale a quella contemporanea, contribuendo alla riflessione su nuovi modelli sostenibili di sviluppo.
Proprio in reazione ai processi di decontestualizzazione e sradicamento che derivano dalle dinamiche di globalizzazione si assiste ad una crescente attenzione nei confronti del paesaggio e del patrimonio culturale come possibilità di ritrovare identità in un mondo omologato e standardizzato. L’ecomuseo, nel territorio calabrese, ricco di tradizioni e beni naturali, rappresenta la strategia per restituire valore agli aspetti locali, troppo spesso interpretati, erroneamente, come limiti allo sviluppo piuttosto che caratteri di pregio da salvaguardare.

Books by Antonia Di Lauro

Editrice La Mandragora, 2024

In un mondo contemporaneo dove vale l’attimo, dove la novità del momento domina le nostre giornat... more In un mondo contemporaneo dove vale l’attimo, dove la novità del momento domina le nostre giornate, dove all’essere si predilige l’espe- rienza di una cultura usa e getta, tutto diventa effimero. Il concetto mette a fuoco non solo la dimensione temporale di un presente aggro- vigliato su se stesso, ma anche l’incertezza di un mondo instabile, privo di solidi appigli, in cui ogni cosa diventa intangibile e fugace.
Ciò si riflette in un paesaggio dinamico e mutevole, in continuo alle- stimento, pronto ad accogliere stili di vita e valori della società dell’in- formazione. In questo scenario, l’effimero emerge come linguaggio etico ed estetico tipico del nostro tempo che riformula il progetto dei luoghi e i principi dell’abitare.
Mentre la città si fa principale contesto di indagine, l’arte diviene stru- mento privilegiato per comprendere in che termini questi cambiamen- ti si verificano e verso quale direzione stanno orientando le nostre vite. Da una parte, l’effimero si fa riflesso di una società incapace di guarda- re al futuro, diventando il linguaggio che esprime la stasi di un presen- te in cui al rapido consumo di dati e informazioni corrisponde l’inca- pacità di costruire rapporti duraturi con le persone, i luoghi e le cose, con il passato e il futuro.
Dall’altra, esso si rivela occasione per riformulare valori e ideologie che hanno guidato la modernità fino alla crisi attuale, portando alla luce gli aspetti immateriali del reale capaci di sopravvivere oltre la durata delle cose, nel ricordo, nell’incontro autentico con l’altro, nella relazione che perennemente evolve e si trasforma come la vita, contro ogni idea di perfezione eterna e immutabile bellezza.

https://www.editricelamandragora.it/home/916-abitare-l-effimero-9788875867584.html

Sharing landscape is the starting point and conclusion of a reflection on the landscape, where th... more Sharing landscape is the starting point and conclusion of a reflection on the landscape, where the protagonist is the community, in the center of the building process of physical and virtual places within the Network Society.
Information and communication technologies affect our way of thinking, perceiving and living an “augmented reality” that develops around sociality and data communication.
The sharing paradigm, from the virtual streams of the Internet, flows into the physical space, redefining the social, economic and cultural dynamics: bottom up actions of “urban makers” and “creative communities” and “open governance” policies in smart cities, both highlight new design approaches for spaces, cities and territories, focused on the inhabitants collaboration. This scenario confirms a new awareness of the inhabitants participation value in the urban transformation as a solution to critical situations and contemporary problems, but also generates many questions about the theorical and operative architecture, for the need to define tools and methods able to interpreting and designing this new reality.
What are the strategies for the project? Which materials? What role for the architect? The relationship between the Landscape and the Web becomes the key to answering these questions.

Di Lauro, A. (2024). The Creative Time of Gardens: From Microcosm to Landscape Infrastructure. In: Agnoletti, M., Dobričič, S., Matteini, T., Palerm, J.M. (eds) Cultivating Continuity of the European Landscape. Environmental History, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25713...

The accelerated rhythms of the Internet’s world greatly affect the contemporary space which co... more The accelerated rhythms of the Internet’s world greatly affect the contemporary space which consequently has become more fluid and mutable.
Landscape reflects the complex transformations of our time, identifying metamorphosis and dynamism as values: an "aesthetics of a creative time" that has always been the expressive tool, essential and intentional, of the landscape project. Landscape changes through biological and social times: today it reveals a mixture between fast events of society and slower evolution of places, due to the nature and the human work. The interpretation and the arrangement of the landscape transformation is a central issue to prefigure sustainable scenarios through a shared vision of the future.
The large scale projects, marked by sprawling area and long times, are often asynchronous respect to the rapidity of global changes; instead, the garden offers the possibility of keeping up with the “temporal and space compression" of the world.
The garden is a "microcosm" in which short and long times of the landscape - the immediacy of daily life, the slower transformations of territories, the perpetual renewal of nature - converge and amplify themselves in a narrative of symbols and metaphors. Here, more than elsewhere, the “contemporaneity” - as temporal span of human life - expresses itself as landscape, in complex relationships of past, present and future.
In every time and place, the garden, while satisfying the needs of its own society, represents a "laboratory of thought" that anticipates ideologies, culture, technologies by which inhabitants relate themselves to the environment and perceive it as landscape.
Thus, it is a place where collective stories, urban conflicts and social aspirations, meet each other. Here, the project issues can be reconsidered and combined with a design language able to express the social values.
This paper addresses how the garden as an “ethical-aesthetic image” may reveal future scenarios of transformation on a larger scale. The garden’s project is considered as a field test, i.e. a "minimum landscape" that, even if punctual and short-term, anticipates wider and long-term strategies. It is closed and fenced by definition, but open and dynamic at the same time and able to exchange information with the outside. Nowadays, it allows us to direct the creative action of time on the open landscape infrastructures, with an integrated vision across different scales.

Ri-Vista. Research for landscape architecture, 2022

In contemporary cities, closure and individualism predominate at the expense of ‘mixing’ and incl... more In contemporary cities, closure and individualism predominate at the expense of ‘mixing’ and inclusion. By structuring the territories around the principles of speed and globalization, the Net has generated ‘weak links’ of social interaction that are reflected in a public space devoid of identity, used quickly and in solitude, dominated by the fear of the difference and by indifference. In opposition to these dynamics, the importance of collaboration emerges, the central value of an open city in which technology and society become resources to reconcile global and local, individual and community. In this direction, at the scale of public space, the collaborative actions of urban events and the bottom-up practices work on the immaterial component of the project: co-design processes guide the interventions of citizens, collectives and associations in the rediscovery of identity values, cultural meanings and emotions associated with places. The public space becomes a place of interacti...

Il riciclo di aree ed edifici abbandonati si pone oggi come priorità per avviare logiche di svilu... more Il riciclo di aree ed edifici abbandonati si pone oggi come priorità per avviare logiche di sviluppo sostenibile soprattutto nel contesto urbano, dove gli effetti della modernità sono maggiormente visibili nell’immagine di un paesaggio frammentato, standardizzato e omologato, in cui i luoghi sono svuotati di senso. Gli spazi irrisolti della modernità richiedono strategie di intervento basate su una logica di rete, capace di ricostruire il sistema unitario del paesaggio in tutte le sue relazioni fisiche e immateriali. E’ evidente che il riciclo non può limitarsi alla restituzione del solo valore funzionale ma deve comportare anche e soprattutto il ripristino di quelle relazioni che esprimono nella corrispondenza tra segno e azione [Turri, E. (2008), Antropologia del paesaggio, Marsilio, Venezia, pag 138] il sistema di valori identitari, storici, culturali che l’industrializzazione e la globalizzazione hanno dissolto. In quest’ottica è riconosciuto all’abitante un ruolo di primo piano dalla CEP. E’ l’abitante artefice del proprio ambiente di vita, come la comunità del paesaggio, opera collettiva in cui si riconosce. La partecipazione è dunque intesa come diritto e dovere che ogni individuo è chiamato a svolgere attivamente, interpretando il ruolo di attore/spettatore che nella contemporaneità riconquista la scena del teatro paesaggio [Turri, E. (2010), Il paesaggio come teatro. Dal territorio vissuto al territorio rappresentato, Marsilio, Venezia, pag 13].
Un contributo importante nell’era dell’informazione è svolto dalle tecnologie di informazione e comunicazione (ICT) che oltre a facilitare lo scambio di dati, conoscenza e sapere, operano un cambio di mentalità in numerosi campi della società contemporanea, in linea con quella che Levy definisce “intelligenza collettiva” [Levy P. (2002), Intelligenza collettiva. Per un’antropologia del cyberspazio, Feltrinelli, Milano] e che trova la sua attuazione nelle comunità open surce e peer to peer, prese a modello anche nel campo delle imprese e del design....

Landscape is a product of community that lives there, it is a collective artwork: quality, sustai... more Landscape is a product of community that lives there, it is a collective artwork: quality, sustainability, contemporary beauty of places can’t be separated from culture sharing, ideas and values associated to living space, finding in collaboration for common goals and strategies the highest expression.
From this assertion the paper investigates, through three key issues, the growing awareness of cohousing principles in contemporary urban space, affected by new structure of the “information age”:
- The sharing economy, the widespread of information and communication technologies
(ICT) and a newfound attention to ecology extend effectiveness of cohousing policies from residential space to all urban areas in which community becomes essential resource for sustainable redevelopment of urban and architectonic assets. ICT, sharing and ecology, three paradigms result of the “network society”, interact in contemporary cities to solve urban problems and define new shared management of city;
- ICT use increases possibility of network strategies centered on inhabitants: Internet allows social relations strengthening, facilitates information exchange and support collaboration. Associations, committees, groups find themselves on the web as virtual communities to intercepting new interaction modes and locations that replace consolidated public spaces;
- From co-creation projects on the web, model "many to many" invades urban reality in which people aggregate spontaneously to express needs and develop solutions. Creative communities and urban makers reappropriate living places and define new collective sites reassigning identity, values, functions in degraded areas and abandoned buildings with self-organized and collaborative actions based on recycling of existing, social innovation, community empowerment.
In conclusion “collective living” becomes a co-design process of landscape: recognized and supported by institutions and designers allows collaborative strategies for redevelopment of degraded and abandoned places, from house, to public space, to neighborhood and territory, able to configure “sharing landscapes”.

L’op-posizione autoriale/politico invita a riflettere su un aspetto essenziale del concetto di re... more L’op-posizione autoriale/politico invita a riflettere su un aspetto essenziale del concetto di re-cycle inteso nella sua accezione “politica” di amministrazione e governo dei paesaggi del rifiuto come strategia collaborativa capace di restituire valore (economico, culturale, sociale) ad aree e manufatti la cui condizione di degrado e abbandono compromette la possibilità di avviare logiche territoriali sostenibili...

Perception landscape by local communities is a key aspect that provides guidelines for possible s... more Perception landscape by local communities is a key aspect that provides guidelines for possible sustainable development of places in continuity with history and local traditions.
For this reason,The European Landscape Convention recognizes the landscape observatory as an essential tool of landscape that, from it’s image as perceived by inhabitants, allows us to define projects consistent with the identity of places.
New tools from the Internet world enable the development of innovative strategies for monitoring, protection and landscape design.The continuity between physical space and virtual flows generate hybrid realities that shape new geographies: web 2.0 allows definition of shared and custom maps as expressions of social and anthropological dimensions of places and not only geometric space but telling a community connected to places. Cybergeography is produced from communication by Internet users and it becomes a new tool for investigation of contemporary landscape, it allows us to: read and interpret places such as customs, habits and movements of people that reveal immaterial aspects, result of culture, behavior and desires of community.
“Tracking” and “tagging” define new ways to write and access sites that tell the landscapes unpublished: stories and tales connected to places around the world and within an urban environment, itinerary images, videos and sounds made on site or associated with them.
Especially in abandoned, degraded and everyday landscapes neglected in policies of territory government, are effective project tools highlighting intangible aspect of landscape. People become actors and authors of individual and collective stories that tell specific issues related to landscape which contribute in an active way to redefine the often absent collective imagination. This is essential for the recovery of landscape networks deleted by modern changes and are therefore a bridge that reconnects past and future, a point from which to re-start.

“Tactical urbanism”, “do it yourself”, “urban hakers action” are bottom-up processes that creativ... more “Tactical urbanism”, “do it yourself”, “urban hakers action” are bottom-up processes that creative communities or urban makers carry out to focus attention on requirements and needs of contemporary living city, often ignored by local authorities, but suffered by people who lives daily degraded, marginal and peripheral buildings and areas.
This informal architectures and artistic performance is produced by inhabitants that rediscover “waste landscapes” through new social relations, culture, values, economy to resolve hardships and practical difficulties in urban sites. Actions considered initially as illegal invasions of public spaces are now being recognized as opportunity for sustainable development, in respect of environment, local identity, people.
Legal buildings and spaces that often don’t have the role of socialization and sharing sites, taking functions related to economic well-being rather than life quality of inhabitants, are replaced, today, by new social places that, through creativity, self-organization, problem solving and collaboration, respond better of top down projects to ideas and needs of community, social welfare requirements and sustainability.
From self-construction processes, typical of southern communities, that through practical and economical solutions adapt living space to needs and demands, initiatives ephemeral, temporary works, recycle projects prove to be viable alternatives to solve contemporary city problems.
From a illegality position these practices become legal, recognized and encouraged by government as alternative possibilities for city shared management.

Con l’approvazione della Legge n.62 del 4 dicembre 2012 la Regione Calabria «promuove la costituz... more Con l’approvazione della Legge n.62 del 4 dicembre 2012 la Regione Calabria «promuove la costituzione, il riconoscimento e lo sviluppo degli ecomusei con l’obiettivo di ricostruire, testimoniare, valorizzare e accompagnare nel loro sviluppo, la memoria storica, la vita locale, la cultura materiale e immateriale e quella del paesaggio, le relazioni fra ambiente naturale ed ambiente antropizzato, le tradizioni, la ricostruzione e la trasformazione degli ambienti di vita e di lavoro delle comunità locali». La legge riconosce la tutela del patrimonio culturale ed etno-antropoligico calabrese come possibilità di sviluppo locale sostenibile.
In continuità con le direttive regionali la proposta di ecomuseo nel Basso Tirreno Reggino mira alla promozione di tre contesti paesaggistici di grande pregio della provincia di Reggio Calabria attraverso un sistema integrato di azioni e interventi che, a partire dal riconoscimento del patrimonio locale come risorsa, riattivi l’economia dei luoghi. I paesaggi della Vallata del Gallico, della Costa Viola e del Parco d’Aspromonte, pur coinvolti da anni in processi di salvaguardia e recupero, continuano ad essere soggetti a fenomeni inarrestabili di degrado e spopolamento. L’economia di questi territori appare fortemente compromessa dai processi industriali e di globalizzazione che hanno generato l’abbandono delle attività produttive strategiche. A livello locale, nel territorio reggino, assistiamo a fenomeni che in modo diverso si manifestano oggi in tutto il mondo, frutto dei rapidi mutamenti che destabilizzano la struttura della società, nel passaggio dall’era industriale e post-industriale a quella contemporanea, contribuendo alla riflessione su nuovi modelli sostenibili di sviluppo.
Proprio in reazione ai processi di decontestualizzazione e sradicamento che derivano dalle dinamiche di globalizzazione si assiste ad una crescente attenzione nei confronti del paesaggio e del patrimonio culturale come possibilità di ritrovare identità in un mondo omologato e standardizzato. L’ecomuseo, nel territorio calabrese, ricco di tradizioni e beni naturali, rappresenta la strategia per restituire valore agli aspetti locali, troppo spesso interpretati, erroneamente, come limiti allo sviluppo piuttosto che caratteri di pregio da salvaguardare.

Editrice La Mandragora, 2024

In un mondo contemporaneo dove vale l’attimo, dove la novità del momento domina le nostre giornat... more In un mondo contemporaneo dove vale l’attimo, dove la novità del momento domina le nostre giornate, dove all’essere si predilige l’espe- rienza di una cultura usa e getta, tutto diventa effimero. Il concetto mette a fuoco non solo la dimensione temporale di un presente aggro- vigliato su se stesso, ma anche l’incertezza di un mondo instabile, privo di solidi appigli, in cui ogni cosa diventa intangibile e fugace.
Ciò si riflette in un paesaggio dinamico e mutevole, in continuo alle- stimento, pronto ad accogliere stili di vita e valori della società dell’in- formazione. In questo scenario, l’effimero emerge come linguaggio etico ed estetico tipico del nostro tempo che riformula il progetto dei luoghi e i principi dell’abitare.
Mentre la città si fa principale contesto di indagine, l’arte diviene stru- mento privilegiato per comprendere in che termini questi cambiamen- ti si verificano e verso quale direzione stanno orientando le nostre vite. Da una parte, l’effimero si fa riflesso di una società incapace di guarda- re al futuro, diventando il linguaggio che esprime la stasi di un presen- te in cui al rapido consumo di dati e informazioni corrisponde l’inca- pacità di costruire rapporti duraturi con le persone, i luoghi e le cose, con il passato e il futuro.
Dall’altra, esso si rivela occasione per riformulare valori e ideologie che hanno guidato la modernità fino alla crisi attuale, portando alla luce gli aspetti immateriali del reale capaci di sopravvivere oltre la durata delle cose, nel ricordo, nell’incontro autentico con l’altro, nella relazione che perennemente evolve e si trasforma come la vita, contro ogni idea di perfezione eterna e immutabile bellezza.

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Sharing landscape is the starting point and conclusion of a reflection on the landscape, where th... more Sharing landscape is the starting point and conclusion of a reflection on the landscape, where the protagonist is the community, in the center of the building process of physical and virtual places within the Network Society.
Information and communication technologies affect our way of thinking, perceiving and living an “augmented reality” that develops around sociality and data communication.
The sharing paradigm, from the virtual streams of the Internet, flows into the physical space, redefining the social, economic and cultural dynamics: bottom up actions of “urban makers” and “creative communities” and “open governance” policies in smart cities, both highlight new design approaches for spaces, cities and territories, focused on the inhabitants collaboration. This scenario confirms a new awareness of the inhabitants participation value in the urban transformation as a solution to critical situations and contemporary problems, but also generates many questions about the theorical and operative architecture, for the need to define tools and methods able to interpreting and designing this new reality.
What are the strategies for the project? Which materials? What role for the architect? The relationship between the Landscape and the Web becomes the key to answering these questions.