Thematic Round Tables

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

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

Thematic roundtable | Cultivating continuity –  one year after 23 October – 9.30 The ELC is a matter of democracy, and its implementation calls into question spatial justice and governance from various perspectives: juridical issues (such as property rights), government and governance systems, participative procedures, planning and management practices. The diversity of European Countries institutional frameworks hinders a comparative perspective, but no doubtingly the ELC contributed in creating a baseline and a shared set of concepts and aims, influencing national systems. In addition, … [Read more...] about Landscape policy and governance

Thematic roundtable | Cultivating continuity -  one year after 23 October - 9.30 If there is no landscape without an observer, in this working table we will analyse how observation can support design and planning processes in the landscape and generate new linkages between people and places. For this purpose, we will approach the systematic study of the landscape (for instance by landscape observatories) and the experiential and culturally mediated interaction between people and the environment, as opportunities to enrich landscape design, protection, management and planning. After … [Read more...] about Observing Landscape