Landscape as a place of interaction and the importance of the participation of the communities that live in the area can thus give rise to change Bruno Zevi – who founded IN/Arch in 1959 – talked about Danilo Dolci, a leading figure in recognizing the social value of architecture. It is starting from these principles that IN/Arch and IN/Arch Sicilia gave life to the initiative "Open Landscapes“, illustrated in the headquarters of the Order of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects and Conservators of the province of Catania.
«This is a wide-ranging cultural project – explains the national president of IN/Arch Andrea Margaritelli – which chose the territory of Sicily as its protagonist on the centenary of the birth of Danilo Dolci, emblem of an active militancy, both technical-organisational and spiritual. Danilo Dolci demonstrated with facts the value of key words such as "active participation from below" and "involvement" of communities in the processes that generate quality of architecture, urban planning, landscape and, therefore, quality of life". Concepts of multidisciplinarity and participation also taken up by the president IN/Arch Sicilia Mariagrazia Leonardi, «essential in a process of transformation of the peripheral and/or degraded urban landscape that educates on the beauty and culture of the quality of living environments. As reported by the European Convention, "the character of the landscape, also understood as the urban one, is characterized by the interrelationships between natural and human factors", constituting a material and immaterial memory which is the identity of each of us". To represent the institutions Paolo La Greca, deputy mayor of the Municipality of Catania, sponsoring body: «For the development of the city it is good to focus attention on its current condition, a diagnosis in which citizens and associations play a fundamental role, subjects who "dialogue" with the territory and are able to understand it." An involvement that must be increasingly greater over time, as it is essential for planning, as highlighted by the representative of the Sicilian Architects Federation Joseph Messina.
Also speaking at the conference were Falzea, Greco and Bonanni
Protagonists of this knowledge sharing they will be citizens, associations and public bodies – he explains Beatrice Fumarola of IN/Arch – in a participatory research process aimed at identifying solutions and plans to respond to the problems of the territory and those linked to integration and social inclusion». A cultural and social value recognized by the Ministry of University and Research, which has financed the project.
