“A reorganization of the tools for those who work in various capacities and with different responsibilities in the field of landscape can no longer be postponed. It is a common need for those who study and experiment, for those who protect, care and administer, for those who intend to train future professionals”. With these words, the architect and landscape architect Domenico Luciani illustrates the reasons behind the ninth edition of the international landscape study days, annual seminar meeting, organized by Benetton Studi Ricerche Foundation in the Bomben spaces of Treviso, scheduled, this year, on the days of Thursday 14 and Friday 15 February 2013.
The 2013 edition is entitled precisely The study and care of places. Compare ideas and tools and will involve about fifteen experts, different figures and differently placed in the fields of history and history of ideas, of sciences, of arts and crafts, of norms, powers and commissions, who will be asked for a wide-ranging reflection on the entire post-war period, for the part and the geographical-cultural area that everyone knows and frequents best, around the evolution of research, elaborations and experiments, of the battles for protection and safeguarding, of concrete experiences for the care, design and governance of places.
Le study days will be broadcast in live streaming on the Benetton Foundation website: www.fbsr.it
«Sixty years after the tumultuous modernization to which the reasons of planning, architecture and ecology had tried to respond; thirty years after the appearance of widespread protective attitudes and the resurgence of attention to endangered natural and cultural heritage, what appears to us today is a substantially new situation» continues Dominic Luciani, curator of the days, «the reasons for concern, and even indignation, have grown if one collides with the dimension of degradation, with the vacuum of foresight of the powers and the wall that separates them from the problems of the organization of our places and therefore from the human condition of those who live there. At the same time, new sensitivities have grown and unprecedented spaces for initiative have opened up, if one composes a critical catalog of social experiences, widespread complaints, theoretical elaborations and emerging experimental proposals, up to the current reappearance of agricultural practices that outline a new design horizon and push right into the city. In short, they have become urgent: a balance of this profound change that is breathed in society and involves the world of research and training; a reconnaissance selective (sheltered from fashions and commercial interests) of the panorama of ideas and projects, commissions and creations, monographic and periodical publications, and also of strenuous attempts to build new professional figures; a discussion panel of proposals from which emerges an updated geography and a network of references useful to those who work or intend to work in this field of sciences, arts and crafts; and to those who try to respond consciously to the tasks of a scholar and a citizen".
All days will participate: Thorbjörn Andersson, Giuseppe Barbera, Hervé Brunon, Paolo D'Angelo, Pierre Donadieu, Francesco Erbani, Luigi Latini, Domenico Luciani, Ugo Mattei, Monique Mosser, Joan Nogué, Lionello Puppi, José Tito Rojo, Robert Schäfer, Marco Tamaro, Marc Treib, Massimo Venturi Ferriolo.
The 2013 edition is dedicated to Francesco Franceschini (1908-1987).
Member of the Constituent Assembly and parliamentarian in the Chamber of Deputies, he presided over the Commission of inquiry for the protection and enhancement of the historical, archaeological, artistic and landscape heritage, known as the "Franceschini Commission", which, established in 1964, concluded the his work in 1966. Among the many merits of the Commission's work, it should be mentioned the adoption of the term "cultural asset" with the meaning of "everything that constitutes material testimony having the value of civilization", expressing a radical change of perspective that threw the foundations for the birth, in 1974, of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage.
The acts, documents and other materials produced by the Commission were published in 1967, in three volumes, under the title For the preservation of cultural heritage in Italy.
Le days they are designed by a working group made up of: Luigi Latini, Domenico Luciani (coordinator), Lionello Puppi, Marco Tamaro, Massimo Venturi Ferriolo and Simonetta Zanon.
Program
Thursday February 14 2013
9.30-hour 13.30 (coordinates Marco Tamaro, Benetton Studies and Research Foundation)
Luigi Latini, Iuav University of Venice, introduction to the days
Herve Brunon, cnrs, André Chastel Center, Paris
Joan Nogue, Landscape Observatory of Catalonia
discussion
15-hour 19.30 (coordinates Monique Mosser, École nationale supérieure du paysage, Versailles)
Pierre Donadieu, École nationale supérieure du paysage, Versailles
Robert Schaefer, «Topos», International Review of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design
Ugo Mattei, University of Turin
discussion
Lionel Puppi, professor emeritus Ca' Foscari University of Venice, dedicated to Francesco Franceschini (1908-1987)
Friday February 15 2013
9.30-hour 13.30 (coordinates Massimo Venturi Ferriolo, Politecnico di Milano)
Paul D'Angelo, Rome 3 University
Jose Tito Rojo, University of Granada
Thorbjorn Andersson, landscape architect, Stockholm
discussion
15-hour 19.30 (coordinates Lionel Puppi, professor emeritus Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
Joseph Barbera, University of Palermo, City Councilor of Palermo
Francesco Erbani, "The Republic"
Marc Treib, University of California, Berkeley
discussion
Dominic Luciani, Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, conclusions of the days
