Representing the Landscape

Representing the landscape is not only an aesthetic act, it is the fundamental condition for its design. Territorial regeneration, revived by European policies after the pandemic period, requires operational reflections, which are developed in the sphere of design, capable of addressing the challenges of complexity that are underlying in strategic planning. The contextual digital and ecological transitions then present themselves as an important lever for territorial innovation, sap that feeds the construction of the new sustainable models of development. This is the context of the “Wood 4 Green Umbria” research focused on the enhancement of the territorial compartment adjacent to a disused industrial pole in Pietrafitta (PG), in a rural landscape compromised by impactful urbanization interventions. The search for new models for the reconversion of these places finds in the landscape a real reason for development, in the idea that forests and wood, understood as renewable resources, can change the image and transform the lives of local communities. The landscape implicitly opens up the implementation of decarbonization policies. The project idea proposes as a lever for innovation research and specifically the topic of landscape and its representation, an investigation aimed at the deep knowledge so necessary to be able to look far ahead.