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2. Script of the landscape. Between perception, representation and action

Author

Gasparella, Lorenza, fondazione benetton studi ricerche, Labex ITEM- ANR-10-LABX-50-01, LabEx ITEM (Innovation et Territoires de montagne), Labex ITEM, ANR-10-LABX-0050,ITEM,Innovation et TErritoires de Montagne(2010), rouanet, stephanie, and Laboratoires d'excellence - Innovation and Mountain Territories - - ITEM2010 - ANR-10-LABX-0050 - LABX - VALID

Subjects
representation, Alps, [SHS] Humanities and Social Sciences, landscape, perception, AApennines, imaginary, [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
Abstract

International audience; Starting from the Engadine Panorama – designed by Giovanni Segantini for the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris – this contribution aims at retracing the relationship between perception and representation of some mountain landscapes. The 400 square metres of painted surface of the Engadine Panorama was an artistic synthesis that represented a territory reshaped by imagination. The observer was optically and emotionally engaged through a “script of the landscape”. In this way, the idea of Engadine became a shared narrative, capable of structuring an iconic mythology. Archetypal figures of landscape have progressively been shifted to a more conceptual level. They become backgrounds in the interest of a communication strategy. Advertising has replaced visual arts in conveying images, symbols, ideas, beliefs and behavioural patterns. The bucolic and romantic image of alpine landscape disappears exploring the Apennines’ landscape. How to start a dis-imagining process to renew the relationship between people and their environment and regain knowledge on how to act inside it, restoring the third dimension of the space flattened in the images?

Published
2017

4. Italian stone pine forests under Rome’s siege: learning from the past to protect their future.

Author

Gasparella, Lorenza, Tomao, Antonio, Agrimi, Mariagrazia, Corona, Piermaria, Portoghesi, Luigi, and Barbati, Anna

Subjects
URBAN density, STONE pines, LAND cover, URBAN planning, LANDSCAPE protection
Abstract

Italian stone pine is a landmark of Mediterranean coastal areas. Today, pinewoods represent environmental amenity areas at risk, being under siege from intensive urbanisation. We present an emblematic case study in Rome’s coastal strip where urban encroachment around pinewoods is somewhat overlooked by urban planning, which may be threatening for their conservation. We studied: (i) changes in land use intensification in the pinewoods’ surroundings over the past 60 years (1949–2008), by means of a synthetic index of landscape conservation (ILC) ranging from 0 (maximum level of anthropogenic landscape alteration) to 1 (maximum level of landscape naturalness); (ii) influence of different landscape protection level on land use intensification. Findings show that in areas with low levels of landscape protection, the ILC had been decreasing in the first 100-m surrounding pinewoods, and within the 1-km buffer. The ILC had been rather stable within areas with high levels of landscape protection. Lessons learnt have implications for spatial development strategies to protect coastal pinewoods from external pressures due to future (planned) urban densification in their surroundings. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2017
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