IUAV – November Talks 2020 – The architects’ sense for the landscape

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The landscape in the foreground today on the contemporary scene is in fact a new landscape, which must deal with the rapid territorial change, with the serious problems of resource consumption, climate change, economic crisis, and which however cannot and must not forget the themes of history, of memory and above all of culture (material and non-material) on which even new landscapes can and must be reconfigured.

Overwriting the palimpsest-landscape is inevitable to affirm a serious design culture towards that “perception of the populations” to which the European Landscape Convention refers. The ways of this overwriting are to be found in a rich and profound interdisciplinary dialogue and in the re-foundation that can derive from this for the design disciplines.

The relational character and the centrality of time and movement factors in the landscape project – investigable in their historical roots that sink both in the experiences of classical antiquity and in those of Eastern civilization or in the pre-modern experiences of romanticism and picturesque – connect architectural research to a stream of interests closely linked to aesthetic-philosophical and scientific thinking, traceable above all in the field of the phenomenology of perception and non-Euclidean geometries, as well as in the experiments of the arts linked to the concepts of motion-emotion, from cinema to dance, from visual arts to various performing arts up to environmental art.

On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the signing in Florence of the European Landscape Convention, the November Talks 2020 at the Iuav University of Venice aim to offer contributions to the debate around the relationship that contemporary architecture has often tried to establish with the figurative spatial and topographical aspects of landscape, as well as with its characteristics of dynamically changing perception, also developing, on the other hand, an evident interest in ecological problems.

This attitude has fostered a frequent and rich dialogue between architects, landscape architects and “environmental” artists, in an attempt to compare and combine the tools of the architectural design with those of the landscape design and environmental art.

The four architects invited for the cycle of talks this year are chosen from the wide array of important contemporary architects whose research has developed the theme of new landscapes in original and peculiar ways, to the point of profoundly connoting their design responses according to this influence.

source: http://www.iuav.it/Ateneo1/eventi-del/2020/November-T/index.htm