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Fragile Cultural Landscapes: A Regenerating Case Study in East Veneto
No full textThe paper reflects on the case study of a reclamation landscape in the East Veneto region (Italy), framing it in the European strategies and policy about landscape and heritage: it will be taken into account what has till now been done by local government, first of all by the “Osservatorio del paesaggio del Veneto Orientale” respecting the European Landscape Convention guidelines, then the paper will point out both sustainable innovation and potentialities of this fragile territory. Further the paper will try to outline the digital infrastructures’ communication abilities in sharing knowledge, connecting them to main questions about preserving and promoting landscape and scattered heritage, again keeping in the background the European policies, mostly about digitalization. As regards the relationship between landscapes and heritage, it will be paid specific attention both on the called “Top-down” actions and on knowing and giving values from below, from “Bottom-up” practices. In fact, the two strategies are complementary, because the first—Presentation—regards the careful goal of informing and making heritage available in a way normally carried out by scholars, professionals and more in general experts in the heritage field. The second strategy, better known as Interpretation, refers on the other hand, to research and creativity activities and results generated in a heritage site. In such perspective, involving visitors as well local people and communities is crucial for interpreting and changing sites as cultural landscapes, into places where legacies of the past can turn to a resource for the future. Referring in a specific way to those last processes, as they are more innovative, the paper will illustrate, like an example useful to be applied, the recent experience of “Alpinescapes” web-platform, implemented to collect and share information about the cultural landscape between Lario and Ceresio lakes, and lastly, to map and merge Digital Cultural Heritage data from Italian and Swiss territories
Rappresentazione/Materiale/Immateriale: Interpretazioni tematiche e proposte applicative - Representation/ Material / Immaterial: Topic Interpretation and Applied Purposes
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Images in World 2.0 / Instructions for use - Immagini nel mondo 2.0 / Istruzioni per l’uso
Full text linkIn the essays’ collection The Uses of Images. Studies in the Social Function of Art and Visual
Communication (1999), Ernst Gombrich states that images demand in Western society is so
significant that it is possible to consider a family without a television, like lacking something.
Addressing his thoughts to fundamental requirements on the basis of visual media – first of all,
clarity and communication – the art historian reminds us the educational role carried out by
images in Western culture till latest past, for example in the case of handbooks or encyclopedias.
Meantime Gombrich points out how “visual aids” provide a kind of “pictorial instructions”, emphasizing
how only few people think that understanding images, both the drawn ones and the in
motions ones, is easier when we add verbal descriptions. In light of such considerations, it could
be useful to analyze what occurs in web communication, made up with the mutual relationship
of images and short texts. The question arising from this paper aims in fact be: what and how
does the role of images change in the internet age? Together with the purposes of knowledge
and communication, it powerfully opens a new dimension made of images to share: digitization
in communication provides new collective knowledge and experience. Furthermore, as some
communication’s sociologists affirm, if change in the media seems to drive our society toward a
growing confusion between real and unconscious, generating actual showcases to amplify social
life (Codeluppi 2012), nowadays is rather in Internet that such process seems to be effective.
In virtual places some interpersonal relationships arise and become durable, meantime debates
occur to lead ideas and enrich knowledge just possessed by society groups: digital technology,
supported by “visual aids”, so allows a new social perception and a growing visibility in the new
world 2.0
Intorno ai paesaggi urbani. Sguardi e topografie
No full textParlare di paesaggi urbani è oggi una questione rilevante? E se sì, perché? Inoltre: perché affrontare la questione del paesaggio urbano piuttosto che ragionare intorno alle nuove forme della città contemporanea? Più che in passato oggi, la relazione con il paesaggio, da soggettiva e estetica, si va trasformando in consapevolezza sociale di gruppi di persone che appartengono a, che risiedono, che vivono, un territorio, anche quando questo appare compromesso da trasformazioni prive di regole.
Questa nuova dimensione del paesaggio si arricchisce di sguardi necessariamente diversi, frutto delle culture “dell’uomo della strada” e di saperi specialistici che devono trovare necessari punti di equilibrio: le modalità descrittive dei contesti diventano quindi strategiche in un orizzonte sempre più contrassegnato dalle nuove tecnologie digitali che incidono non solo su un maggiore e più rapido scambio di informazioni, ma determinano ricadute significative anche sulle visioni tradizionali di città e paesaggi
Modellazione e Simulazione: la rappresentazione alla grande scala tra tradizione e innovazione
No full textUrban planning and landscape has traditionally made use of the construction of visual and morphological models required for checking the third dimension relations between contexts and projects, more profitably than the “zenithal” mapping.
Physical models, the maquettes, built with traditional technologies, can now be integrated with other devices that allow to improve and broaden the field of investigation, in a plurality of forms of representation, which extend from the physical to the digital model: this has allowed us to enhance the effectiveness of the physical model, as well as the more usual concept phase of the project and morphological checking of spatial relationships, to the control of relations between planimetric structure and three-dimensional shape, between perception and vision of overall volumes, enriched by the dynamic representation of the conditions of solar radiation at different stages of the year.
The use of traditional models integrated with urban and environmental simulation techniques today is therefore a useful experimental field that is based not only on their empirical use, but explores new potentials, enriched with technology upgrades; simulation - in all experimental fields - in fact makes use of the models, including in the term "model" a wide variety of objects, from simple acts of visual communication, to the symbolic reproduction of complex systems.
But "simulation" also means to achieve the effect of something else, go beyond immediate appearances, which often deceive, and a model as a symbolic representation of the current situation, can be used in relation to certain aspects, instead of given situation. The simulation runs all therefore the reality by means of three basic functions: the reduction, simplification, prediction.
So the urban and landscape simulation models allow to support the exploration of components primarily visual, along with other aspects that may return a larger number of parameters to test its overall sustainability.
«Humans perceive their environment through their senses – wrote Bishop e Lange -Commonly these are distinguished as an auditive system (the sense of hearing), a tactile system (the sense of touch), a kinesthetic system (the ability to sense and coordinate movement), a vestibulary system (the sense of balance), an olfactory system (the sense of smell), a gustatory system (the sense of taste) and a visual system (the visual sense): Visual is easily the dominant component.»
There are historical reasons for which Western culture has been mostly dominated by the sense of sight, it is a clear sign for example, the predominance of "perceptual parameter" about the idea of landscape, even at the urban scale.
If the visual simulation, therefore, allows the reconstruction of present conditions of existence prior to the implementation of the project, other simulations over the "visual", the test of other sensory perceptions, including, touch, and hearing they broaden the range of laboratory tests
I siti Unesco nella società della conoscenza.Il caso delle Dolomiti The Unesco Sites in the knowledge society. The case of the Dolomites
No full textLa Convenzione del Patrimonio Mondiale dell’UNESCO (Parigi 1972) sancisce che i beni culturali materiali e immateriali di valore universale eccezionale debbano essere riconosciuti come patrimonio dell’umanità e pertanto tutelati e valorizzati. Le società, soprattutto quelle del mondo occidentale, sono molto cambiate nei quarant’anni che ci separano da quella prima formulazione, e hanno altresì trasformato il senso e le modalità, i processi e gli eventi culturali. In particolare l’accesso alle tecnologie digitali ha reso più labili i confini tra “cultura alta” e “bassa” inaugurando nuovi fenomeni di industria culturale e di turismo.
Sullo sfondo di queste problematiche, il paper si propone di mettere a fuoco e di sviluppare il ruolo delle tecniche di rappresentazione e comunicazione nel processo di candidatura Unesco, riferendosi a un recente caso studio italiano, il paesaggio naturale e culturale delle Dolomiti.
The World Heritage Convention of UNESCO (Paris, 1972) states that the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of outstanding universal value should be recognized as a World Heritage Site and therefore protected and valued. Societies, especially those in the western world, have changed in the forty years that separate us from the first formulation, and they have also transformed the meaning and the methods, the processes and cultural events. In particular, access to digital technologies has made increasingly blurred the boundaries between “high” and “low” culture, inaugurating new phenomena of cultural industry and tourism.
In the background of these issues, the paper aims to focus on and develop the role of the techniques of representation and communication in the application process Unesco, referring to a recent Italian case study, the natural and cultural landscape of the Dolomites
Filling in gaps in the urban landscape with a patchwork of open space. A proposal for the dispersed city
Full text linkUrban landscapes configure themselves like a mosaic of synchronic concurrences and a stratified diachronic palimpsest, at the same time, where the phenomenon of spreading dwellings out of the urban settlements is a raising question in the European context. The irregular growth of living neighbourhoods wears the landscape out, or in other words, we are talking about urban sprawl or spread city: “unplanned, incremental urban development, typified by a low-density use of lands on the city threshold.” (Gibelli e Salzano, 2006).
This new kind of horizontal city is diffused, widespread and growing on itself. It modifies the countryside leaving “interstitial segments, remains and fragments” among buildings: maybe they can be seen like “urban gaps”.
But where have we find answers to face that problem? among architects and urbanists? among people living in spread cities? How to make people aware of the potentialities of open spaces? How to represent the gaps? Which can be the role of representation and first of all , of communication technologies?
The paper intends to show the update examples on the issue:. a patchwork possibility is taking place, sewing up parts and fragments of not homogeneous fabrics, while awaiting a new urbanity re-build, a new landscape. How that patchwork can be made? By open healthy spaces, public spaces, green spaces..., linked each other in order to compose a huge patchwork, more relevant than buildings, the real net able to invert the relationship between built spaces and open spaces
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