AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The aim of the module is to verify and consolidate the student's knowledge in the field of planning, train him to interact with urban planners and other experts in the design and management of sector plans and projects of territorial value.

At the end of the workshop the student will have acquired the ability to:

• set up and carry out independently a program of analysis of a landscape;

• identify and represent critical issues and values of the landscape analyzed;

• produce a redevelopment proposal consistent with the characteristics detected, the boundary conditions, the existing planning framework;

• represent and describe the expected results of the project.

TEACHING METHODS

The module consists of thematic lessons held by the teacher, inspections carried out collectively and individually, atelier activities during which the students, organized in groups of 2-4 people, will work on a project, will compare themselves with colleagues, will discuss the progress with the teachers, in the framework of a constant integration between the disciplines and the modules of the laboratory.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Exercise common to the two modules

Theme aa 2022-23

The urban mountain. Cerusa Valley

Several metropolitan cities in Italy include marginal territories that are sparsely inhabited and subject to further abandonment. They are fragile territories, subject to degradation and risks, which possess precious resources for a re-generation of living in the metropolis.

The case study is the valley of Cerusa, included entirely within the Municipality of Genoa and partly in the Beigua regional park. It contains mountain environments, ancient rural landscapes, testimonies of the paleo-industrial production systems; at the same time, it hosts industrial activities that produce negative impacts and originates hydrogeological instability that is a severe risk factor for downstream urban districts.

The project will concern a proposal for a new landscape between the park and the city, the mountains and the sea, where the residence and agricultural, forestry and pastoral activities are seen as an instrument of territorial protection, production of ecosystem services, offer of an alternative living compared to that of the urban contexts of the metropolis.

Working method

• Construction of the framework of knowledge (Morphology; Land uses, Environmental and naturalistic resources; Historical and landscape resources; Territorial endowments - infrastructures, services, plants).
• Operational framework (the valley in the municipal context; plans and policies in place; expectations of the community).
• Construction of scenarios of redevelopment and landscape reproduction.
• Laying out of a strategic project for the enhancement of heritage and the territorial redevelopment.

Final product

3 boards (in A1 format, 594x851mm):

• Case study: reading of the territory under investigation, identification of critical issues and values;
• Scenarios: definition of evolutionary trends, identification of preferable ones and a design strategy (also with references to practices and case studies);  
• Project: cartography and graphics that define the proposal of a new landscape (use and organization of the territory and open spaces, relationships between the components of the landscape).

Report (A3 format album), illustrating the phases, the guiding principles and the results of the work carried out, possibly accompanied by annexes where the data and materials used are collected.

Topics of the module lessons:

• Ways of understanding the landscape. The development of the aesthetic appreciation of the landscape and the integration with the economic, historical, social components

• Natural, human, rural landscapes: relationships between morphology of the territory, systems of production, settlements. Economic transformations, crisis of historical rural landscapes and formation of new landscapes in contemporary Italy.

• The Mediterranean landscapes and the specificities of Liguria. The case study.

• The landscape in the legislation and in the management practice of the subjects who implement its protection. From the European Landscape Convention (2000) to the Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape (Legislative Decree 42/2004), to the new generation of landscape plans. Regulation and management of the landscape and protected areas.

• Landscape and planning in the study area (the Ligurian case): municipal plans, landscape plan, basin plans and other plans with effect on environmental aspects, policies with territorial value.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

AA.VV, “Paesaggi rurali in trasformazione: nuovi modelli, linee di ricerca, politiche d’intervento” in: Franco Salvatori,  a cura di, L’apporto della Geografia tra rivoluzioni e riforme, XXXII Congresso Geografico Italiano, Roma, 2017

Gabriella Bonini e Chiara Visentin, a cura di, Paesaggi in trasformazione, Istituto Alcide Cervi – Editrice Compositori, Gattico-Bologna, 2014

Alberto Magnaghi, Il progetto locale, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2000

Alberto Magnaghi, a cura di, La rappresentazione identitaria del territorio, Alinea, Firenze, 2005

Jan McHarg, Progettare con la Natura, Franco Muzzio, Padova, 2007 (1969)

Emilio Sereni, Storia del paesaggio agrario italiano, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1974 (1961)

Aldo Sestini, Conosci l’Italia. Volume VII. Il Paesaggio, Touring Club Italiano, Milano, 1963

Frederick Steiner, Costruire il paesaggio, McGraw Hill, Milano, 2004

Eugenio Turri, Il paesaggio degli uomini, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2003

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

ROBERTO ANDREA BOBBIO (President)

FABRIZIO ESPOSITO

FABIO PALAZZO

LUCA VOLPIN

LESSONS

LESSONS START

https://corsi.unige.it/9006/p/studenti-orario

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The exam includes the two laboratory modules. The evaluation, expressed out of thirty, is established by consensus by the teachers.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

During the presentation and discussion of the project, developed in a group, the individual student is assessed with respect to the ability to:

• analyze a landscape, select and describe the tools and methods of analysis used, describe it in its main elements,

• illustrate the project carried out in its development,

• discuss the choices of the project, demonstrate their sustainability and correspondence to the set objectives.

The commitment and profit are assessed taking into account the participation and contribution made by the student to the atelier work during the semester

FURTHER INFORMATION

Since this is a laboratory in which constant dialogue with teachers is essential, attendance is mandatory and the ability to access the exam is subject to a minimum number of people (both face-to-face or distance meetings).

To design the landscape it is essential to have direct experience of it, as well as to know it through studies; at least one inspection will be conducted with the teacher and it is up to the students to independently carry out data collections and on-site checks