Thursday 18 February 2016

10am. Opening, Luigi Latini

10.30am-1.30pm. Woods and landscape, coordinator Hervé Brunon

Federico López Silvestre, The modern idea on forests

Tessa Matteini, The wild and the image of forests in the culture of gardens

Giuseppe Scarascia-Mugnozza, Forests and ecology in the globalized world

 

3pm-5.30pm. Woods culture and ecology, coordinator José Tito Rojo

Marco Marchetti, Forest dynamics and evolution of cultivated landscapes

Roberta Cevasco, Secondary forests and slope instability: the Ligurian mountain areas, from food resource to environmental problem (19th-21st c.)

Aurelio Manzi, The domesticated forest: woods in the agricultural and pastoral societies

 

6pm. Alberi, a film by Michelangelo Frammartino (Italy, 2013, 28’), introduced by Gregorio Paonessa

 

9pm. E anche gli alberi io canto, Giuseppe Barbera and Isabella Panfido

 

 

Friday 19th February 2016

 

10am-1.30pm. Woods and landscape design, coordinator Monique Mosser

Marc Treib, Designed Forests in the Modern Landscape

Georges Descombes, Intensifications. Trees in the landscape project

Peter Walker, Before the National September 11 Memorial

 

ore 3pm-5.30pm. Woods and living places, coordinator Simonetta Zanon

Kamni Gill, The Grove in the Contemporary City

Luca Carra, The return of forest in Milan: “Boscoincittà”

Thilo Folkerts, After the armory. A new forest for the Montello hill (Treviso) 

 

6pm. Conclusions, by the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione

 

speakers

Giuseppe Barbera, professor of Tree crops, University of Palermo, Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche;

Luca Carra, science journalist, Italia Nostra national member;

Roberta Cevasco, professor of Geography, University of Gastronomic sciences, Pollenzo;

Georges Descombes, landscape architect, Ginevra;

Thilo Folkerts, landscape architect, 100Landschaftsarchitektur, Berlin;

Kamni Gill, professor of Landscape architecture, University of Sheffield;

Federico López Silvestre, professor of Aesthetics and Art History, University of Santiago de Compostela;

Aurelio Manzi, naturalist and botanist, Gessopalena (Chieti);

Marco Marchetti, professor of Forests planning, University of Molise;

Tessa Matteini, professor of Landscape architecture, Iuav University, Venice;

Isabella Panfido, poetess and journalist, Venezia;

Gregorio Paonessa, cinematographic producer, Vivo Film, Rome;

Giuseppe Scarascia-Mugnozza, professor of Forestry and Forest ecophysiology, University of Tuscia, Viterbo;

Marc Treib, architecture and landscape historian, professor Emeritus, California University, Berkeley;

Peter Walker, landscape architect, senior partner PWP Landscape Architecture, Berkeley.

 

working sessions coordination

Hervé Brunon, André Chastel Center, Paris, cnrs;

Luigi Latini, Iuav University, Venice;

Monique Mosser, École nationale supérieure du paysage, Versailles, cnrs, International Committee on Historic Gardens and Sites (icomos);

José Tito Rojo, University of Granada;

Simonetta Zanon, Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche.