Paesaggi in movimento

Abstract

During the last decades of the 20th century a new environmental and ecological awareness has spread in the western world. Together with the technological and digital revolution, it has also directed the architectural and urban design towards an integration/crossbreeding of natural, artificial and technological elements, giving special attention to the aspects of environmental sustainability and of energy saving at the different levels of intervention, from the “intelligent” buildings to the network of the smart cities. Every day we witness to the creation of spaces that are more and more interconnected, user interactive and interagent, flexible and able to exchange information with the outside world. We are now able to supervise our life contexts as never before by collecting and organizing a huge amount of information without precedent. Furthermore, new technologies are used in many cases to simplify and facilitate bidirectional and real-time communication between users and providers, citizens and administrative offices and, in wider terms, among the various actors of the landscape inside a more and more close and diversified network of physical and immaterial interconnections. The eco-sustainable landscape design requires therefore a systemic approach and an overlook in order to permit the match between safeguard and preservation on one hand and transformation and regeneration on the other. This is as inevitable as it is essential for our life contexts, as well as the use of unconventional tools diffusely employed whether for a territorial study in accordance with the complexity of the actual dynamics or for the construction of a collective project of landscape.