The 2018 edition, in continuity with the themes dealt of the previous editions, focuses the attention on the multiple and complementary forms of integration between landscape and society. Sharing is proposed as a key word for the trasformative processes of contemporary landscapes and territories. Only a careful research for identities of places, where local communities can be recognized and rediscovered themselves, allows us to reach a quality that integrates spatiality with the sense of sociality. Along this background, the direction and the coordination of the wprkshop identifies some paradigmatic places in the enlarged territory of the city of Piacenza, taken as an exemplary case-studies of contemporary conditions.

Deeply, the landscapes that are proposed to students as a basis for discussion and comparison - complex and interdiciplinary - and as object of the design experimentation, correspond with some abandoned military areas of the city that built an interacting and multi-scale sequence along the axis of Via Emilia Pavese: Pontieri Laboratory, Pertite Barracks, Lusignani Barracks. Because of their location on the northern edge of the city and at the same time in contact with the fluvial areas of the future Po River Park, the regeneration (physical-spatial, socio-economic, technical-infrastructural) of these 3 urban places can be understood as an opportunity for a wide rethinking and re-interpretation of the relationships among architecture-city-landscape in the contemporary reality. The design work for visions that joins spatiality and sociality is in many ways one of the most stressed frontier of current disciplinary research at international level and will be addressed here without limits of scale in a renewed and continually fluctuating relationships among the local and the global plan, without a priori functional definitions.