LABORATORIO DI PROGETTAZIONE DEL PAESAGGIO M - Z

10 CFU - 2° Semester

Teaching Staff

GIANFRANCO GIANFRIDDO - Module Landscape architecture - ICAR/15 - 6 CFU
FAUSTO CARMELO NIGRELLI - Module Regional Planning - ICAR/21 - 4 CFU

Learning Objectives

Landscape architecture
Architecture as a necessary act for man to "inhabit". According to this assumption, the course proposes and develops a reflection on the concept of "landscape" as a result of man's action towards to give life to the territory in which he has decided to settle. The area of the "Val di Noto" offers precious inspiration for the study proposed. The clear running of a small town and the close relationship with geographical factors, the territorial structure consisting of natural and artificial palimpsest, the climate as well as economic and social conditions, simply and directly express certain basic phenomena of the settlement process arising in the territory. The aim of the laboratory is to acquire the design tools to operate in continuity with the settlement practices traditionally adopted over time for that area.
Regional Planning
The objective of the Laboratory is to make people understand the relational character of the landscape project: to decipher the relationships of every order between the nature organized in the space and the settled societies.
Designing the landscape is therefore observing, interpreting, sewing and stitching, establishing dialogues, with the freedom to make continuous steps of scale, favoring the integration between the reflections matured. at different viewing distances.

The landscape key applied to the so-called "inner areas" helps to imagine and plan the new relationship between the human environment and the natural environment. In this way, a decisive contribution is made to the country's ecological transition, a primary objective after the Covid-19 pandemic.

Course Structure

Landscape architecture
The teaching will be carried out with ex cathedra lessons in the classroom and on-site surveys, with the development of a project on a study area, which will be identified in agreement between teacher and student. Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.
Regional Planning
The teaching is carried out with frontal lessons and laboratory lessons with elaboration of the cards according to the standard of OVPE - Virtual Observatory of the European Landscape.

Detailed Course Content

Landscape architecture
The main content of the Landscape Architecture module concerns the integration of the reflections, methods and disciplinary tools within the Landscape project, with particular reference to the territory of Val di Noto and to the territorial-landscape system of the Ibleo planking.
Regional Planning
The main content of the planning module concerns the integration of reflections, methods and tools in the field of regional planning, with reference to both peri-urban areas and "inner areas", i.e. those "areas that are significantly distant from the centers offering essential services (education, health and mobility), rich in important environmental and cultural resources and highly diversified in nature and as a result of secular processes of anthropization".
Students are provided with a picture of the evolution of the concepts of territory and landscape and of the instrumentation related to landscape planning with references to the new paradigms and to the
international framework.
With the intention of experimenting a project approach aimed at the control and management of compatible and integrated development of the territory, keeping in mind the indications of the European Landscape Convention, the final objective will be to acquire the following skills:
- ability to read and understand the landscape system;

- ability to coordinate the various elements of the project at different scales;

- ability to conduct a design process of open spaces, gardens and parks;

ability to integrate landscape issues within the architectural project.

It is expected the reading of a territorial area disaggregated into natural and anthropic system, the elaboration of an evaluation framework of synthesis, the elaboration of the sheets of an Observatory.
Virtual Landscape according to the international standard set by the relevant European research program

Textbook Information

Landscape architecture
1- Salvatore Settis, Paesaggio, Costituzione, Cemento. La battaglia per l’ambiente contro il degrado

civile, Giulio Einaudi editore, Torino 2010.

2- Emilio Sereni, Storia del paesaggio agrario italiano, Laterza. 2020.

3- Luigi Pellegrino, Dalla masseria alla villa. Trasformazioni territoriali dell’altipiano ragusano

durante il secolo XIX, LetteraVentidue edizioni, Siracusa 2008.

4- Convenzione europea del Paesaggio, Firenze 2000.
Regional Planning
essential bibliography

1-Convenzione europea del Paesaggio, Firenze 2000.

2- Michael Jakob, Il paesaggio, il Mulino, Bologna, 2009

3-Roberto Gambino, “Il ruolo della pianificazione territoriale nell’attuazione della convenzione”, in G.F.Cartei (a cura di), Convenzione europea del paesaggio e governo del territorio, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007

4-Alberto Magnaghi, Patrimonio territoriale, statuto dei luoghi e valorizzazione delle risorse, in F. Corrado (a cura di), Le risorse territoriali nello sviluppo locale, Alinea, Firenze, 2005.

5-Mariavaleria Mininni, “Abitare il territorio e costruire i paesaggi”, prefazione a Pierre Donadieu, Campagne urbane. Una nuova proposta di paesaggio della città, Donzelli, Roma, 2006.

6 - Fausto Carmelo NIgrelli e Francesco Martinico (a cura di), I piani paesaggistici della provincia di Enna, Urbanistica Quaderni n 53, INU Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica, 2009

7- Fausto Carmelo Nigrelli (a cura di), Paesaggi scartati. Risorse e modelli per i territori fragili, Manifestolibri, Roma, 2020

8-Domenico Sorace, Paesaggio e paesaggi della Convenzione europea, in G.F. Cartei (a cura di), Convenzione europea del paesaggio e governo del territorio, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007

9- Regione Basilicata, Osservatorio virtuale del paesaggio

10- Paolo D’Angelo, Filosofia del paesaggio, Quodlibet, Roma, 2010, cap. 1

11- M. Marchetti, S. Panunzi e R. Pazzagli (a cura di), Aree interne. Per una rinascita dei territori rurali e montani, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2017

Supplementary bibliography

12 - Observatorio virtual del paisaje urbano mediterraneo

13 -Paolo La Greca e Francesco Martinico, “Strategie per il Val di Noto”, in F. Corrado (a cura di), Le risorse territoriali nello sviluppo locale, Alinea, Firenze, 2005.

A bibliography on the national and international debate on the role of inland areas and landscape in the post-pandemic perspective will be provided.

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