Where Disciplines Meet Lecture – May 2022

11 May 2022

Wind Energy and Culture of the Landscape. Guidelines for an adequate installation

Speakers: Daniela COLAFRANCESCHI, University of Reggio Calabria “Mediterranea”; Fabio MANFREDI, University of Genoa, Pere SALA, Landscape Observatory of Catalonia

General subject area: landscape observatory/landscape ecology/landscape policy and governance/landscape and community

Landscape and Energy represent an inseparable and innovative binomial because of the challenges they implies and on which we measure the quality of our habitat. The landscape design interprets the convergence of territorial values with the innovation of an energy system: it is not measured on a geographical scale, but draws from geography the sense of an overwriting of everyday places to which it gives sense and orientation, meaning and narration.
Besides presenting the report “Wind Energy and Landscape. Guidelines for a suitable installation in Catalonia”, i.e. a research into the methodology for installing wind farms, the session presents a critical reflection on the possible spatial, ethical and aesthetic effects.
The research – an experience conducted by the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia, on behalf of the Generalitat – moves in a dialectical position between ecology, society, nature and culture and does it by overturning the approach: not the project for a correct installation of wind power plants, but the project for a wind power plant capable of enhancing the territory, in a new and unified landscape configuration. Energy of the wind and the culture of the landscape as a new ‘contemporary nature’. The aim is an advancement of thought on design tools, that espouses the dictates of the European Landscape Convention and more recent ambitious goals set by the UN with the 2030 Agenda.

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Daniela Colafranceschi, PhD in Architectural Design, she is Full Professor in Landscape Architecture in the Faculty of Architecture at the ‘Mediterranea University’ of Reggio Calabria, where she has been engaged in academic work since 1991. Between 2007 and 2012 she was head of International Relations in the faculty. She was also director of the international Erasmus Programme “Changing Landscape: Mediterranean Sensitive Areas Design” from 2008 to 2011. She is member of the Executive Board of UNISCAPE (European Network of Universities for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention) and, since 2018, of the executive board of IASLA (Italian Academic Society of Landscape Architecture).

Pere Sala i Martì Degree in Environmental Sciences at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Director of the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia. He was its Coordinator from the year 2005 to 2017. As such, he supervised the Landscape Catalogues of Catalonia. His work addresses the integration of landscape issues into public policies, the implementation of landscape policies in Europe, and the link between landscape and development from national to local levels.

Fabio Manfredi, PhD in Landscape Architecture, he is researcher at DAD Department University of Genova. From 2011 to 2021 he was Adjunct professor at the University of Naples Federico II and Roma Tre University, visiting professor at Lisboa Lusiada University (Portugal), University of Thessaly (Greece), KU- Leuven (Belgium), TU-Delft (The Nethelands). He carried out research activities of national interest at Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria and University of Naples Federico II