Abandonment. The landscape and the fullness of the void
International Landscape Study Days 2022, eighteenth edition
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The theme of abandonment of working and living places – from rural to mountain communities, minimal living spaces to large industrial complexes – has long been at the centre of the debate on the future of our planet and has given rise to a flourish of projects which, even as regards the landscape, has generated new methods and attitudes.
Current forms of abandonment need further study and the landscape and garden culture can approach this with a mindset and the means that consider this condition a value in itself and an opportunity for growth, seeing actions not as corrective measures but as an invaluable exercise in coexistence.
Abandoned places are therefore not purely a memory of the past or spaces waiting to be replaced by something new: the question is now how this state of limbo or lack of consideration can give rise to a “culture of abandonment”, which landscape research, together with the involvement of many others, can adopt and “cultivate” in a constructive and shared manner.
Friday 18 February 2022, h 3–7 pm
different views on the abandoned places
Corrispondenze, screening of the short film by Marco Zuin and Alessandro Padovani made on the occasion of the study days 2022
Anthropology of the third landscape, Nadia Breda, professor in Cultural Anthropology, University of Florence
The satisfaction of abandonment, Michela De Poli, landscape architect, MADE Associati, Treviso
Unintentional landscapes, Matthew Gandy, professor of Cultural and Historical Geography, University of Cambridge
Integration or segregation in the use of land and landscapes?, Marco Marchetti, professor in Ecology and Management of Forest Resources, University of Molise
“Montagne di mezzo”: coming to terms with abandonment, Mauro Varotto, professor in Geography and Cultural Geography, University of Padua
White, Grey, Green – Alpine Landscapes in Morphosis, Günther Vogt, Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten, Zurich-London-Berlin-Paris
Lost. Past and future of abandoned sites in Italy, Antonella Tarpino, historian and essayist, Nuto Revelli Foundation, talks with Daniele Ferrazza, journalist of the GEDI group
Thursday 24 February 2022, h 4.30–7 pm
urban landscapes
From Fallow: Unbuilding the Urban, Jill Desimini, professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Careful abandonment, Pablo Georgieff, Coloco, Paris, and Lorenzo Romito, Stalker, Rome
Islands. Waste landscapes and new lands, Sara Marini, professor in Architecture and Urban Composition, Iuav University, Venice
Stalker, by Andrej Tarkovskij (URSS, 1979, 161’), online screening introduced by Pablo Georgieff and Lorenzo Romito
Friday 25 February 2022, h 4.30–7 pm
leisure landscapes
Abandonment as a commission for art and landscaping, Katja Aßmann, artistic director Spreepark, GrünBerlin, Berlin
Dolomiti Contemporanee, Gianluca D’Incà Levis, founder of Dolomiti Contemporanee, director of the ‘Spazio di Casso’ centre at Vajont
Regimes of care and neglet, Martì Franch, landscape architect, EMF paisatge, Girona
Memory, topophilia, conflict and urban transformation: “abandoned” football stadia, Fabio Salomoni, sociologist, Department of Foreign Languages, Koç University, Istanbul
