LANDSCAPE 4.0. Sharing for the future cities
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 transformative 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 workshop 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 interdisciplinary - and as object of the design experimentation, correspond with some abandoned military areas of the city that build 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.
The considered areas are intended as huge potential in terms of regeneration, reuse and recovery of urban quality. They are strongly connected and they build interacting synergies with: dismantled infrastructural areas, other military areas, under-utilized demersal areas, natural areas along the banks of the Po and Trebbia rivers, areas bordering on the consolidated residential zones, transition bands between the built-up system and the agricultural plain.
Part of the intensive design experience will be the activation of one or more areas with a view oriented to build a vision that responds to the proposed scenario. The project will be communicated, in the mid-term and final critics, with the traditional tools of the discipline (drawings and above all models, consistent with the training setting of the Campus of Piacenza of the Politecnico di Milano) but also by means of installations and of story-telling (mainly videos).
The "complementary landscapes" to which the Summer School will look at will then coincide, on the one hand, with the "architectural fact" itself rooted in the local context, on the other hand, it’s strongly integrated with urban and territorial dynamics (the city is the landscape and the landscape is the city) characterized by the presence of watercourses and marginal agricultural areas to the city itself.
The problematic scenario proposed as a background arises from the integration of global scenarios (to which European cities are called to respond to changes in social, economic and environmental equilibrium) and the local architectural transformations, which is necessary for the regeneration of neglected areas. In this sense, the same concept of landscape is subject of a radical rethinking, as a "complex product" of multiple, variable and dynamic events, which occurs each time either as a result of a complexity of interfering glances or as an extreme synthesis of heterogeneous and sometimes contradictory materials of the project. The landscape as a result to be achieved, and not as a priori model to be applied in the various conditions. In this perspective, the project is the "common" construction of multiple disciplinary contributions, as a significant and expressive result of this particular interscalar, multifunctional, multi-faceted architecture.
In line with these premises, the goal of the workshop will be the project of a landscape-city vision that develops architecturally in the design of an integrated space sequence designed for different and innovative and experimental functions (even in an optics of circular economy), able to reactivate fragments of the city of Piacenza and its immediate around in a synergistic and transformative logic.
key-words
Landscape
Sharing
Innovation
Sustainability
Resilience
Food-cycle
Creativity
OC last editions titles:
2010 Between the city and the river. Architecture of urban relations.
2011 Living the street. Landscape and public space in the places of metropolitan infrastructure.
2012 Landscape in sequence. Dwelling the wall.
2013 Nature in the city. From ecological landscape to architectural design.
2014 Architecture for a creative city. Piacenza towards Expo.
2015 Feeding (the) Landscape. A new green-active museum for agriculture.
2016 Lanscape in Motion. Innovative design for the Po riverside.
2017 New Next Nature. Scenarios for Piacenza 2050.
