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

The workshop is sided by ex cathedra lessons: some take up general issues concerning the way in which spatial planning has dealt with the problems of landscape protection and landscape design, with particular regard to the Italian context; others concern the analysis and interpretation of the territory that constitutes our case study.

Theme aa 2023-24. The Cinque Terre. Protection and development of a World Heritage Landscape.

The Cinque Terre (Liguria) are a national park and a UNESCO heritage property. This double connotation - but above all the interest of the mass media, attracted by the singularity of the landscape and the settlement system, have led to a worldwide tourist success. The historic rural landscape is difficult to maintain; the territory is fragile and does not support the strong pressure of large masses of visitors. The Cinque Terre therefore represent an exemplary case study of landscape subject to degradation and risks, poised between the need to integrate and participate in global growth processes and the need to protect those traditional values that constitute a reason for its success. Based on the recognition of values and problems, the workshop intends to carry on landscape projects that open up prospects for sustainable development.

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