Lapis 1 - 2008-2009

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Introduction: Objectives, content, impressions of the first didactic experience................................... 1 Study topics: A rapid or slow landscape? With high or low visibility? Regional stresses in the eastern Padana region The cases of Vicenza and Ferrara ............................ ..................................................... 2. Method: Knowledge of the place ................................................................................................. Key words....................................................................................................................... 3. Didactic Contributions a) Ferrara: Landscape as an Open Conflict............................................................... b) Barcelona: Community Landscape............................................................................. Lisbon: Landscape Ecology.................................................................................. 4. The Form of the Territory ........................................................................................... 5. The Process The Diary ....................................................................................................................... Tuesday - May 5th ........................................................................................... Wednesday - May 6th ..................................................................................... Thursday - May 7th ......................................................................................... Friday - May 8th .............................................................................................. Saturday - May 9th .......................................................................................... Sunday - May 10th .......................................................................................... Monday - May 11th .......................................................................................... Tuesday - May 12th ......................................................................................... Wednesday - May 13th ................................................................................... Thursday - May 14th ....................................................................................... Friday - May 15 ............................................................................................... Saturday - May 16 ........................................................................................... 6. Exploration - Student Presentations Group 1 - Movement - Presentation 1 - May 8th................................................................................ - Presentation 2 - May 11th.............................................................................. - Presentation 3 - May 11th am ....................................................................... - Presentation 4 - May 13th ............................................................................. - Presentation 5 - May 15th.............................................................................. - Presentation 6 - May 16th.............................................................................. Group 2 - Community - Presentation 1 - May 8th................................................................................
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ARAPID OR SLOW LANDSCAPE? With HIGH or LOW VISIBILITY? Regional Stresses in the Eastern Padana Region. The cases of Vicenza and Ferrara Strategic paper FERRARA Premise Contemporary European regional development patterns are characterized by the presence of complex spatial articulation in which high and low density, economically competitive and weak, and socially cohesive and conflicting urban-rural areas alternate in a manner that is apparently haphazard and no longer intelligible. A regional transformation process is at work, blurring the distinction between city and countryside (and the economic phenomena that produced them). This process is characterized, at least on the surface, by dispersed development patterns in which the historical landscape is losing its unique form and identity, accumulated as a result of long term historical process. While this course of events can be interpreted as a transition from modernity to postmodernity, it reveals a regional fragmentation now apparent at every level (ecological-environmental, settlement, social, economic, etc.), exacerbated and amplified as a result of the effects of rapid and sporadic economic processes which have the capacity to produce real and significant regional discontinuities by virtue of the greater or lesser integration of the local context into global process. The intended LAPIS Workshop propose to address a conceptual double juxtaposition present in contemporary landscapes: The rapid and slow nature of settlement and social transformations in a region, phenomena particularly visible in rural and peripheral urban areas, and the high and low visibility of a region's cultural heritage, which is derived from the variety processes for attributing value to the region itself. The analysis and experimentation area for this working hypothesis is the Eastern Padana region, in particular the regional contexts of Ferrara and Vicenza, two cities of medium dimension (with more or less the same number of inhabitants), a little more than 100km apart, that together make up part of the same Padana settlement network and that present some interesting similarities and differences. They are both city-regions recognized by UNESCO as important examples of humanity's global cultural heritage, and are therefore endowed with a certain level of high visibility cultural heritage, but are situated in areas characterized by significantly different demographic, settlement and economic dynamics. On the one hand, we have the delta city (Ferrara) that has
for already some time been rethinking its economic marginality in terms of resources to invest in the environment, tourism and rural areas. On the other hand, we have the city in the heart of the Northeast, literally immersed in on of the richest and dynamic areas of Europe, now in search of a new dimension, beyond just economic, that will allow it to apply new strategic instruments for confronting the new global economic crisis. Method The themes to be developed in the context of the workshop, each of which can be approached in a
multidisciplinary manner, will be redefined within two larger thematic areas: Landscape_Rural region (slow or rapid)
Key words: Urban-rural conflict, dense areas, rarified areas, new rural forms, urban-rural cooperation (consensus building, cohousing, biological agriculture, landscape projects, etc.), settlement patterns, dispersion, enclave, community activism, governance, mobility, connections, networks, edges Fe+Bc+Ls On the subject: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH AND DEFINING 2 CASE STUDIES
Landscape Regional cultural heritage (with
PLANNING OFACTIVITIES 1. WORKPLAN (Pease provide a work plan for the IP divided into different envisaged tasks according to the table below. Possible tasks can be design and content of the IP, definition of teaching methods, editing and production of material, dissemination, etc. Show within each task, what activities the consortia will undertake) LAPIS deals with regional development policies, which have noticeable impacts on landscape changes. The project work will focus on different policy issues such as: spatial planning; regional development; environmental protection and nature conservation; agriculture; forestry; transport; settlements and housing; tourism. Example and case studies from the research and teaching experiences led by the three project partners will be considered, and presented during the opening section. The intensive course will be organized into ten work units split up into ten days. It will start with an opening section and close by a roundtable discussion. The work units will correspond to different specific teaching objectives pursued through activities performed according to different methods. The sequence of each of them will paced by strict deadlines. Materials such as dossiers, analysis grids, interviews, will be prepared and group work, case studies and fieldwork will be selected as didactical instruments. Task number : 1 Task title: Opening/Introduction Session Task Leader: UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA Description Objectives: to facilitate the relationship among participants, to learn their expectation regarding the course and group works. Activities: Socializing and exposing of expectation in groups in classroom. Task number : 2 Task title: Work unit 1 Task Leader: UPC Description: Objectives: to acquire more in-depth knowledge on different experience of landscape planning in Italy, Spain (Catalunya), and Portugal, and based on the recognition that landscape issues can be used to innovate the traditional approach to the spatial planning. Activities: participating in three lessons informative cycle and closing discussion; reporting the day activity
Task number : 3 Task title: Work unit 2 Task Leader: Lisboa UT Description: Objectives: to acquire more in-depth knowledge on different experience of landscape planning in Italy, Spain (Catalunya), and Portugal, and based on the recognition that heritage issues can be used to increase positive impact at local level. Activities: participating in four lessons informative cycle and closing discussion; reporting the day activity Task number : 4 Task title: Work unit 3 Task Leader: UNIFE Description: Objectives: to acquire more in-depth knowledge on the process of integration required to study multifunctionality in agricultural landscapes. Activities: participating in four lessons informative cycle and closing discussion; reporting the day activity Task number : 5 Task title: Work unit 4 Task Leader: UPC Description: Objective: to acquire more in-depth knowledge on the role of local communities in the maintenance of valued landscapes and more in general on participatory approaches in the planning and management of cultural landscapes. Activities: participating in four lessons informative cycle and closing discussion; reporting the day activity Task number : 6 Task title: Work unit 5 Task Leader: Lisbon UT Description: Objectives: to acquire more in-depth knowledge on the interrelation between regional development and cultural landscapes change in order to meet future requirements and to learn how to manage a balance territorial transformation in European landscapes and regions. Activities: participating in four lessons informative cycle and closing discussion; reporting the day activity Task number : 7 Task title: Work unit 6 Task Leader: UPC
Description: Objectives: to acquire more in-depth knowledge on the interrelation between regional development and cultural landscapes change in order to meet future requirements and to learn how to manage a balance territorial transformation in European landscapes and regions. Activities: participating in four lessons informative cycle and closing discussion; reporting the day activity Task number : 8 Task title: Work unit 7 Task Leader: UNIFE Description: Objectives: to carry out of the territory being studied as meta-project. Activities: Group fieldwork trip Task number : 9 Task title: Work unit 8 Task Leader: UPC Description: Objectives: divided into small group, to arrange the materials collected during the fieldwork. Activities: preparing analysis reports (power-point documents), based on a grid started during the Opening Session, to be presented to the group and to be discuss among the participants, and guest faculty and local stakeholders Task number : 10 Task title: Work unit 10 Task Leader: UNIFE Description: Objectives: to create a planning proposal of territorial intervention to get the goal of defining strategic and design guidelines to a new Po Delta Bio-region Activities: preparing programmatic reports (power-point documents), based on a grid started during the Opening Session, to be presented to the group and to be discuss among the participants, and guest faculty and local stakeholders Task number : 11 Task title: Work unit 10 Task Leader: Lisbon UT Description: Objectives: to complete the work of the Work unit 9 to be presented in form of a hyper-text to the public during the roundtable discussion. To evaluate the entire intensive course experience through the contribution of a group of
Diary Journal of Daily Student Activity and Impressions
Intensive Program in Landscape Studies 1 / 2008-2009
DIARY 05-05-2009 - Vicenza
DIARY 05-08-2009 - Po River Delta
DIARY 05-10-2009 - Ferrara; In Work Groups
DIARY 05-11-2009 - Ferrara
DIARY 05-16-2009 - Ferrara - Final Presentations
Exploration Student Presentations
PRESENTATION 05-08-2009 on Vicenza experience
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PRESENTATION 05-11-2009 on Codigoro-Pomposa experience
PRESENTATION 05-11-2009 Vicenza-Codigoro-Pomposa Comparison
PRESENTATION 05-13-2009
FINAL PRESENTATION 05-16-2009
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G. Bertuzzi, F. Oliveira, R. Pari, D. Pinto, M. Pretto, O. Rosello, E. Russo, F. Terziari
COMMUNITY PRESENTATION 05_08_2009 Vicenza Experience

Our first approach to the Vicenza landscape was mainly sensorial and guided from our own sight and perception. The territory was presented to us in a leaded way, almost like someone is carrying you by the hand, and you feel the urge to explore the area on your own. We walked along a circular route, experiencing strong contrasts from rural areas to wealthy palaces. After experiencing the pronounced topography on first-hand we suddenly found ourselves rubbing our shoulders along the city walls. The area had both fast and slow components to its morphology. Most constructions were randomly sprawled along infrastructure, making the use of the car essential in order to establish the area web. This followed the diverse rural mosaic composed of medium-sized plots and a significant variety of agricultural production. On the other hand, the landscape became mostly slow when walking along the maze-like old core or in between the fields. We detected strong typological contrasts in between buildings: from Villa Rotonda to spontaneous constructions. Nevertheless they all shared a certain capsular community atmosphere, making obvious a global sense of fear and paranoia. Most constructions were fenced with spiked or ornamented with cctv cameras. The act of building borders around private space has lead to an extremely empty public space, cancelling all spaces of meeting or interaction. The second approach was focused on a series of interviews to the inhabitants and to the people who work there. We decided to write near the images of the interviews just some emblematic sentences which show the most important themes of our analysis. We noted down the age, the distance between their houses and their
working places, the number of the components of their families and an opinion about the way of life in there. The first guy told us that he would live near there, but he studies in Padova 30 km far. It was interesting to know that in his opinion this district is just a place to eat and sleep. The old men, instead, were very happy to live there. They also was proud of the district because there are a lot of factories and they don't fail nothing. But, in their opinion, all the services are represented by a restaurant, a bar and a tobacconist. The Chinese guy too lives near his bar, but he doesn't mind about living in town or in S. Agostino village. It's just an economic problem for him, he said. Then we talked with a girl who just works in S. Agostino, but she lives in Padova. She is 35 years old and she is single. She doesn't have really an opinion about the site. She doesn't mind because she is just passing through in there. The woman with the baby is not so happy about living there because she lived all her life in a village near there, and she doesn't have the same feelings even if she is 4 km far, because there is a lot of traffic and she's not accustomed to that. In general she is satisfied about the district services. Finally we interviewed a woman in the social housing district called dei Ferrovieri. The most important thing she said is that between the houses, where now there are some private gardens and garages, there was a place used for washing the clothes. That was a real community moment.

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some interviews to the people we met, about common places in their environment , but the answers were always the same: there aren't a lot of places of community. The people meet their friends in bars, clubs or near the church. They also tell us that there are not working possibilities in there, so everybody leave from their native places searching for a job and come back just for see their relatives. The consequence is a high age average. When we arrived to Pomposa abbey we discovered something interesting. We were searching for communities and we finally found one. Near the abbey there are the community I ricostruttori della preghiera which is a religious group linked to the catholic church. We made an interview with some of them and we knew a lot of things about the group and their uses. The most important thing they told us is that live in common, religious and lays, there are a lot of communities in Italy and they frequently change their site because of the necessity of one of them. So they haven't got a real link with the territory. We concluded that maybe there aren't real communities, but instead some informal meeting places on the bicycle race, which are not always the same. Our first impression was that the goal of the experience was just to arrive to the abbey, but we were wrong because it is maybe the bicycle path own. It was so used even if it is interrupt 500 meters before arriving to the abbey and there are not a lot of trees along the path.
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COMMUNITY PRESENTATION 05_11_2009 Codigoro-Pomposa Experience

Saturday we went to the little town of Codigoro by train, then we made a bike-path of 5 Km by walking to arrive to the Pomposa's Abbey. The experience of pilgrimage born from our difficulties that we had to reach the abbey using public services. In our mind the abbey represents a symbolic place which could be a meeting point for communities, and that it could be reach by a linear path, that is unidirectional. So we have found in the linear path the first space of potential relation between people. Then, step by step, we opened our eyes on the landscape we were crossing. So we tried to define different possibilities of informal meeting spaces. We looked on the borders of the path and noticed that there is a fringe, public or private, that can change its thickness and become a possibility of informal meeting spaces. Into the city this fringe is very thin, because houses often are close to street. When we come out of the city, this fringe changes, sometimes we find a parking, or individual houses that have a big garden in front. When we are in open field the landscape is very open and at the end it seems to walk between two symbolic walls, as in Vicenza, because the path was surrounded by private field or natural borders like a river and artificial borders like the highway. During the trip we were searching for places which could represent communities or simply meeting places. We did
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Self-sufficiency: orchards; autonomy; sustainability; independency. Fear: vigilance; panoptic on; capsular and individual behaviour that will lead to apprehension. Tourism: local versus international; 'villa rotonda' versus 'abbazia di pomposa'; range; religious. Brightness: colours; shadows; humidity. We didn't found a real community in our trips but just a series of places connected with the landscapes we visited were people can meet each other, we called that informal meeting places. These meeting places are connected with three concepts: landscape, heritage and paths. About the landscape we noticed the connection between the topography and the feeling of a place that belongs from that, in fact the different perception that comes from a flat landscape or from a highland influences our behavior. We've had two different approaches to get to the heritage in Vicenza and in Pomposa: in the first case we lived that as a series of steps (the various villas) as it was a route full of interesting stops. In Codigoro the approach was completely different because we were only looking for our goal: the Pomposa abbey, and we didn't see other things around us. Paths we covered in the visits were very different in the form but not in the meanings: in Vicenza the high walls divided private gardens and villas from the small public streets, it gave us a sense of exclusion and limitation, as the owners don't want their private spaces to be seen from strangers. In they way to Pomposa limits were marked by fences on one site and by the canal to the other, we could see clearly until far in the land but we could not enter this spaces so the result was the same.
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COMMUNITY PRESENTATION 05_11_2009 on the comparison Vicenza-Codigoro-Pomposa

For this work we had to make a compilation of our previous works, in order to compare the community of Vicenza and Ferrara, from our point of view. This is only our perception of what we saw, and what we felt. We thought it was important to make a simple scheme where all the keywords were related sequentially. Therefore, we decided that the most relevant words were: topography, density, productivity, fuzziness, public spaces, wellness, self-sufficiency, fear, tourism and brightness. Topography: heterogeneous landscape; variety; plan land versus mountainous land. Density: sprawl; dispersion; isolation versus agglomeration. Productivity: diversity; fragmentation; different plot size; mosaic. Fuzziness: dissolution of the borders; ambiguity; walls; limits; borders; heavy frontiers. Public spaces: almost none; the ones that exist are places of gathering [static] versus [dynamic] long strip; conflict. Wellness: wealth; contrast between the different typologies; stratification.
PRESENTATION 05-11-2009 on the comparison Vicenza-Codigoro-Pomposa
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COMMUNITY PRESENTATION 05_13_2009

We started this presentation showing the two different areas we visited in the days before and more generally the cities of Vicenza and Ferrara. We tried to think about the sense of community and membership. On our opinion in the case of Vicenza it's not so clear how people in the city feel to belong to Vicenza itself. The borders of this virtual area which represent the sense of community are not really defined. On the other hand about the case of Ferrara we think that the area of the community is more defined and corresponds to the part inside the city walls. Then we have the scheme of the previous presentation. That diagram was really useful to understand the places, to try to make our first analysis and to compare the two cities. The keywords (topography, density, productivity, fuzziness) represent quantifiable things and concepts and are the parameters we used to compare Vicenza and Ferrara. Then we took the concept of community and we tried to link it to other general concepts like family, agriculture, religion, identity At this point we build a list of almost twenty questions. These questions represent a way to reorganize our thoughts in a critical attitude. It's interesting that the following questions are a sort of answer to the previous. So we built a logical sequence of considerations that is the point of departure for our proposals.
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COMMUNITY FINAL PRESENTATION 16_05_2009

Introduction The key word we worked on is community, it has been studied between Vicenza and Ferrara territories. The concept community is linked with lots of other ideas and categories which family, agriculture, land, religion etc.. A community usually born when different unities, that have something in common, meet one each other. This is the reason why communities are strictly linked with public spaces: in fact a public space is a place where people that have common interests meet one another because they need the same kind of space (common space). The first area we analyzed was in Vicenza: the area of the Villas, which is a very closed zone, every property has a high fence beside his limits. The points touched for the zone of the Villas were: fast landscape versus slow landscape, fractured land, typological contrast, capsular community and some others. Area 2, even in Vicenza, is very different from the first: is an industrial-residential area along a street in which common spaces are very rare and almost even represented by bars and churches. This area is characterized by: aligned points of interest, improvised common spaces, area along a route, new constructions forbidden and historical social housing. When we moved to Ferrara territories we went first to Pomposa, we made a long trip to get there: first by train from Ferrara, then, arrived in Codigoro, by feet till Pomposa's abbey that was 5 km far, linked by a bicycle race. In this third area we pointed out some concepts as pilgrimage, symbolic community generator, transition area, temporary communities and dynamic relations. The last place we analyzed was represented by the city walls of Ferrara, which are topographic city walls with ecologic orchards inside. Theme The theme of community was analysed with different
approaches. First, when we visited the sites of Villas in Vicenza, we had a visual approach to the territory, and then, after seen the site, we talked about our impression of the community that we met during the day. Then we approached the second area of Vicenza, the industrial one, in an opposite way. Using the tools of the interviews to people, we tried to catch the real situation of communities there. We prepared first the questions to make, and then we made our impression on the site based on these interviews. This was our method used for the visit in Vicenza. For the visit in Codigoro and Pomposa we worked in a more freely way. We make a long promenade by walking on a bike lane, from Codigoro to Pomposa Abbey, and we proved the experience of little informal communities that can originate in a path. After these visits we made a comparison between the two sites, focusing on the different perception we had between our keyword community, in the two site of Vicenza and Ferrara, and other concept link to that. This concept were more pragmatic, like density or topography, and other were more abstract concept like fear or brightness, but all of them were measurable. Then we made a synthesis of the most important key-concept and starting from this we made a list of almost twenty questions that could help us to go deeper in the analisys. Starting from this we selected five questions, more linked to the sites, which suggested us some subjects and could be a starting point for the proposals. In particular we focus on the sense of the word community, that mean a common group of people which have common interests, the importance of the landscape to help the creation of communities, the reflection on public and private spaces, and the discover that a common space it's not necessary a public one and, at the end, the reflection on the functions of the infrastructures and paths that can be used as place of informal communities but, more important, they are the principal link between different communities. In fact we discover that it's not enough for a community to have a path, but a community need a link to the land, and taking care of land help people to create a sense of community. At the end we found that agriculture could be a strategic tool to have a use and not abuse of the land and could be used to make a sense of community between the inhabitants of a place.

Proposals Later we have tried to translate our general ideas into some specific suggestions. Around the key words agriculture/orchards and events we have tried to show, with a graphical exaggeration, some important concepts. To do that we normally worked on the infrastructures, the paths and the possibility of creating a net between the two with some events. An event may be something that will happen in a specific day, but also a physical thing you find on the path you are passing through. Agriculture may be an event too. We chose four critical areas in the sites we have visited during this workshop (two in the district of Vicenza and two in Ferrara's one). All the projects are presented with a localization map, in high on the left, an image or a drawing and some phrases or written suggestions. The first area is the one of the villas in Vicenza. On the left we can see the path between the center of the town and the top of Colli Berici. Our perception is that there is not a real connection between the center of Vicenza and this area. We want to improve the connection with the town and modify something on the pedestrian path, in search of a better relation between the public and the private spaces. The goal is to use and to do not overuse the landscape. The second area is in the south periphery of Vicenza, exactly on the other side of Colli Berici. The image on the left show our will of protecting the wide areas and
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reconnecting the inhabitants with their territory. The second one represent the ancient Ferrovieri neighborhood where the terraced houses were related by the lavatory which were a real place of relations for the inhabitants. By the time the way of life has changed and the same inhabitants started taking possession of this space. Now there are a lot of private gardens with garage too. Our idea is to create a semi-public space using the urban orchard, trying to improve neighborhood relations. The third area is the bicycle path between Codigoro and Pomposa Abbey. It's a 5km path with no trees, a strong interruption 500m before arriving in Pomposa and no physic relation with the landscape. Our will is to re-open the ancient road in front of the Abbey to the bicycles and pedestrians, to put some events all along the way and to plant more trees for improving the pleasure of going through it. The goal is to decrease the number of cars along the parallel road. The last area is the transition one from the city walls of Ferrara to the immediate periphery. All the green path around the town is very well done and used a lot, but is not very simple to cross the thoroughfare road which is just near the green belt. We have thought that maybe we can do it without creating another infrastructu-re, but just having an event on the other side and re-drawing the borders.
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Xavier Prez Estrada, IvnMorante, Jimnez, Maria Madalena Torres, PedroMiguel Pires, Anna Ferretti, Antonio Marseglia, Chiara Porretta, Ilaria Franco
topography, hydrography, climate ... and trough this elements we will consider the production, the economic and the social production. This is the general idea that we tried to apply to the two specific areas that we have seen at Vicenza. To make more direct the presentation we decided to organize our work thinking to what professor Llop tell us during the first lesson and so we have presented the two areas considering three levels: what we have seen [ lo que vemos] what we know [lo que sabemos] what we would like to have [lo que queremos] But these are just our initial ideas, we will improve them during the workshop.
PRODUCTION PRESENTATION 05_08_09 VICENZA EXPERIENCE

Introductio: First of all, we became thinking about what we will consider with the keyword production, or better, in which way this frame could be a valid point of view to analyze the territories of Vicenza and Ferrara. We will try to distinguish how the things are and what the things produce, reading this connection not in a linear way but in a circular one. We tried to consider how the landscape is, how are its artificial elements like houses, infrastructures, services and also social dynamics and historic stratifications, how are its natural elements, like
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sometimes gardens around them, due to the abcense of public spaces. The second point we realize that Jolanda di Savoia had a very different past, since it was a zone flooded and suffered a process of subsidy. The fact that the land become a plan, led to large parcels. The existence of natural resources for the development of agriculture, has made from 1880 to predominate sugar plantation and therefore the need of creating an industrial zone in 1920 that supported throughout this production. Due to an economic crisis particularly the production of sugar and a possible competition by adding a few new laws to prohibit the contamination, the plants were needed to close. A demand for better quality of life of the inhabitants of Jolanda Savoia had need to go to big cities, is nowadays a dormitory become a plan, led to large parcels.
PRODUCTION PRESENTATION 05_11_09 CODIGORO EXPERIENCE

Located in northern Italy, the Village of Jolanda di Savoia, is over a route that covers two cities as Ferrara and Codigoro. Mainly surrounded by agricultural fields and a river that runs through these three cities, Jolanda di Savoia had a different formation of the other two. The water here has a key role in shaping the town, since the basic need was explored. Our perception of the town focussed on two fundamental principles to an analysis of the area, what we see and what we know. On the first point, our vision for the local town was a small but organized by major roads and wide blocks located where the only equipment is. The houses were characterized by their experience with interior garden and
PRESENTATION 05-11-2009 on Codigoro Experience
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not so difficult to see how the city will loose their own rule only becoming a dormitory place. INDUSTRY: In Vicenza the industry is the most important power of the city. On the contrary in Jolanda di Savoia area the industry has generated the urban settlement but nowadays we have no sign of this industrial presence. Discussing about the industrial situation in Vicenza, we have noted that a possible weakness could be the land contamination due to the heavy industrial presence on the territory. At the same time a great chance is represented to the opportunity to be self sufficient. In Jolanda di Savoia we have a complete different situation. The big opportunity for this territory related to the Industrial sector cold be represented by the huge amount of land available. In this case , the big threat is linked to the invasive power of the infrastructures. This could endanger an already fragile territory system. HOUSING: In Vicenza we have found three different types of housing: unifamiliar houses, multifamiliar houses and big Venetian villas. These three different types will create a mixed up tissue in the city. In Jolanda di Savoia we have found only unifamiliar and bifamiliar houses. Speaking about Vicenza area, we are agree in saying that a point of strength could be the relative flat closeness to the nature but especially in the IndustrialArea the weakness is represented by the lack of urban planning. On the other hand, in Jolanda di Savoia the cheapest cost of the land is the major opportunity in our opinion but nowadays an obvious threat is represented by the isolation. These SWOT analysis want to be the first step toward a deeper comprehension of the whole territory, helping us in reaching some intervention proposal.
PRODUCTION PRESENTATION 05_11_09 VICENZA-CODIGORO COMPARISON

We have analysed three zones: the green area of Colli Berici in Vicenza, the industrial area of Vicenza and at least the Jolanda di Savoia's area in Ferrara. First of all we have perceived a difference in how the urbanized tissue communicate with the territory: in Vicenza's zones there is no respect for natural limits and the city and the infrastructures have invaded the nature. On the other hand, in Jolanda area the village has grown following the natural presence, in particular the river that define the village structure being the most important source of sustenance. So we want to underline a different way to relate between the urban and natural land: in Vicenza these two elements are divided, creating a fracture, a break; in Jolanda's area the natural background produce urban setting. Moreover we have analyzed three main arguments in order to compare the three zone: the agriculture, the industry, and the housing. For every one we have done a SWOT analysis that is the first step for our strategy. AGRICULTURE: While in Jolanda di Savoia the agriculture represents a structural aspect of the landscape, we have perceived that in the green zone of Vicenza the agriculture and the fields are constrict in a defined space between the industrial zone and the infrastructure. Talking about the city of Vicenza, in the SWOT analysis we have underlined the strengthness ( the points of strength) of the territory such as the great value of the own landscape and the great productive capability of the industrial area but at the same time the weakness (weak points) like the undulating ground of this topography and the big industrial pollution the productive activities produce. In the same SWOT analysis for Jolanda di Savoia area we have listed as positive note the possibility to be connected with other small villages nearby in order to create and generate self sufficiency relationships. A possible threat for this territory could be the workers dependence from their job position. In this case, it will be
PRESENTATION 05-11-2009 Vicenza-Codigoro Comparison
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In opposite to the considerations expressed above, our vision is an organic model of development where urban areas can generate synergistic relationships with territory. Acity to be less unsustainable has to be a citt-regione. After these reasonings we have started analyzing the territory like a mixture of fringes with different urbanization levels. These fringes are in contrast one by one, and often happen that the one with the highest level of urbanization destroys the one with the smallest one. So, for us, the chance to work on it become the breaks between the different fringes. Operating on fringes borders offer to us the possibility to generate relationships. It is important to underline that the intervention for us does not correspond only to build. Most of the times, when we talk about territory, operate means to preserve it, to think about a new way to live on the land, to inspire respect and different usages of that. So sometimes operate on territory means do not operate at all. Following this concept, we formulate our second question that is a challenge too: how urban voids can add values in our territory? We have tried to apply these concepts to our study zones located in the green and the industrial area of Vicenza, and the Jolanda di Savoia territory in Ferrara province. First of all we have analyzed these zones locating the different fringes and its borders, putting out the resources, the connections, the paths, and the topography of each territory. These are our principal elements, and we have started to work on it. After the analysis assembled later on some inspections on the territory, we have tried to do some proposals, knowing the time available during the workshop would not been enough to understand the whole territory. In the green area of Vicenza we have suggested to create a natural path with some point to stop and to do some physical exercises to exploit the longitudinal direction of this area. This path could be an opportunity for Vicenza's citizens to appropriate this natural resource that is just out of the city and to whet a respect for the environmental that is an important legacy to preserve. In this way we think it will be possible to characterize the area preserving the patrimonial value, and creating some direct relationship between the city and this green area. For the industrial zone of Vicenza we have suggested to take advantage by the main characteristic of the two fringes that are in contrast in this area: the resources result by the agricultural fields and the connections, that are the major framework of the industrial area. So we have proposed an interchanging area, a sort of market that
PRODUCTION PRESENTATION 05_15_09

During this workshop the main focus of our group was to deepen the key word PRODUCTION. Analyzing the territory and discussing about the key word, the first thing we have underlined and shared with you was the reflection on HOW the production activities could be considered in a different way in contrast by the traditional way. In our opinion, at the present moment, we used to consider production as a special system aimed to transform each renewable and non-renewable resource, in money and economic benefit without thinking about any consequent effect that production can have on the territory. So in a traditional way, PRODUCTION is a behaviour, a process of making or growing things to be sold especially in large quantities. So, the waste of land, time, resources and so on looses their importance, because the target is only an economic profit. On the other hand a new way to consider PRODUCTION, is to consider the entire process in a more sustainable way. So is necessary to focus on our attention on every process involved in the production; that does not run out in the product quantity, or in money results, but concerns many wider spheres as we have already explained above: the use of land, the use of renewable resources, and so on So a (R)EVOLUTION is required, that could be expressed in replacing the term and the concept of production with the new PRODUCTIVITY term that means look out IN WHICH WAY we have to produce. The real goal of production will be changed. (R)EVOLUTION is an endless and organic process among how we produce and what we obtain with the production: the products. Consequently we are agree with the idea that a city will never be sustainable by itself. So our first question is: how could the city be LESS unsustainable? An example of the most unsustainable city could be Long Island in New York, as you can see in the photo attached. A city where the watchwords are: isolation, independence, individualism, waste of land, waste of time, car usage. We can judge Long Island as an unsustainable city taking into consideration the economical, the environmental and the social way.
could develop itself in the break creating a transversal relationship between the fringes. Following this process, in our opinion it will be possible an interaction between this two areas to spur a sustainable development of this zone. At the end in the Jolanda di Savoia zone we have estimated that a rural park could be an interesting way to sustain the development of this small village that in the past has had a big catalyst of economic and urban growth such as the sugar refinery transformed nowadays into a dormitory town. When the industry has stopped its own rule, Jolanda di Savoia lost every urban impulse of growth disappearing in the mind of everyone. So to create some relationships in this contest we believe that it is important to make a good use of the vast rural space this territory has maybe creating some meeting spaces.
As we have explained before, these are just some proposals brought about our reflections which main target is to establish a relationships between fringes. We hope some others will contribute to increase our work with some different ideas, because we always think that: speeches about (R)EVOLUTION are more revolutionary that the (R)EVOLUTION itself
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into consideration the economical, the environmental and the social way. In opposite to the considerations expressed above, our vision is an organic model of development where urban areas can generate synergistic relationships with territory. Acity to be less unsustainable has to be a citt-regione. After these reasonings we have started analyzing the territory like a mixture of fringes with different urbanization levels. These fringes are in contrast one by one, and often happen that the one with the highest level of urbanization destroys the one with the smallest one. So, for us, the chance to work on it become the breaks between the different fringes. Operating on fringes borders offer to us the possibility to generate relationships. It is important to underline that the intervention for us does not correspond only to build. Most of the times, when we talk about territory, operate means to preserve it, to think about a new way to live on the land, to inspire respect and different usages of that. So sometimes operate on territory means do not operate at all. Following this concept, we formulate our second question that is a challenge too: how urban voids can add values in our territory? We have tried to apply these concepts to our study zones located in the green and the industrial area of Vicenza, and the Jolanda di Savoia territory in Ferrara province. First of all we have analyzed these zones locating the different fringes and its borders, putting out the resources, the connections, the paths, and the topography of each territory. These are our principal elements, and we have started to work on it. After the analysis assembled later on some inspections on the territory, we have tried to do some proposals, knowing the time available during the workshop would not been enough to understand the whole territory. In the green area of Vicenza we have suggested to create a natural path with some point to stop and to do some physical exercises to exploit the longitudinal direction of this area. This path could be an opportunity for Vicenza's citizens to appropriate this natural resource that is just out of the city and to whet a respect for the environmental that is an important legacy to preserve. In this way we think it will be possible to characterize the area preserving the patrimonial value, and creating some direct relationship between the city and this green area. For the industrial zone of Vicenza we have suggested to
PRODUCTION PRESENTATION 05_16_09 FINAL PRESENTATION

During this workshop the main focus of our group was to deepen the key word PRODUCTION. Analyzing the territory and discussing about the key word, the first thing we have underlined and shared with you was the reflection on HOW the production activities could be considered in a different way in contrast by the traditional way. In our opinion, at the present moment, we used to consider production as a special system aimed to transform each renewable and non-renewable resource, in money and economic benefit without thinking about any consequent effect that production can have on the territory. So in a traditional way, PRODUCTION is a behaviour, a process of making or growing things to be sold especially in large quantities. So, the waste of land, time, resources and so on looses their importance, because the target is only an economic profit. On the other hand a new way to consider PRODUCTION, is to consider the entire process in a more sustainable way. So is necessary to focus on our attention on every process involved in the production; that does not run out in the product quantity, or in money results, but concerns many wider spheres as we have already explained above: the use of land, the use of renewable resources, and so on So a (R)EVOLUTION is required, that could be expressed in replacing the term and the concept of production with the new PRODUCTIVITY term that means look out IN WHICH WAY we have to produce. The real goal of production will be changed. (R)EVOLUTION is an endless and organic process among how we produce and what we obtain with the production: the products. Consequently we are agree with the idea that a city will never be sustainable by itself. So our first question is: how could the city be LESS unsustainable? An example of the most unsustainable city could be Long Island in New York, as you can see in the photo attached. A city where the watchwords are: isolation, independence, individualism, waste of land, waste of time, car usage We can judge Long Island as an unsustainable city taking

take advantage by the main characteristic of the two fringes that are in contrast in this area: the resources result by the agricultural fields and the connections, that are the major framework of the industrial area. So we have proposed an interchanging area, a sort of market that could develop itself in the break creating a transversal relationship between the fringes. Following this process, in our opinion it will be possible an interaction between this two areas to spur a sustainable development of this zone. At the end in the Jolanda di Savoia zone we have estimated that a rural park could be an interesting way to sustain the development of this small village that in the past has had a big catalyst of economic and urban growth such as the sugar refinery transformed nowadays into a dormitory town. When the industry has stopped its own rule, Jolanda di Savoia lost every urban impulse of growth disappearing in the mind of everyone. So to create some relationships in this contest we believe that it is important to make a good use of the vast rural space this territory has maybe creating some meeting spaces. As we have explained before, these are just some proposals brought about our reflections which main target
is to establish a relationships between fringes. We hope some others will contribute to increase our work with some different ideas, because we always think that: speeches about (R)EVOLUTION are more revolutionary that the (R)EVOLUTION itself
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Giulia Bertelli, Silvia Gabrielli, Joana Moura, Alberto Salis, Alessandro Trotta
WELL BEING PRESENTATION 05_08_09 VICENZA EXPERIENCE

When we talk about Stare Bene, we can use different meaning of that concept. We think of Stare Bene as a psychological and mental well being or explore the economic wellness. At the same way we think how the research of individual wellness can change or compromise the collectivity wellness. We use also Stare Bene as something suitable, something that works good: the right object in the right place. Thinking about the first meaning of Stare Bene we can read the location of Vicenza's villas as a little relaxing paradise; visiting the industrial area, instead, close to villas, we understand relax was possible only on a more little scale.
Analyzing Stare Bene from an economic point of view, we recognize villas as a place where people show their money, like an old nobility.At the same time in the industrial area we read two different kind of production system: fields production and factory production; each of them pushes city from both sides, reducing it to a linear residential urbanization.On the villas area we can see how the individual wellness can influence collectivity wellness. An example of that is the wall that the majority of inhabitants have built around their houses creating a small street and closing the landscape. At the same time inhabitants, buildings walls, lock themselves in. The question is : Who have closed in/out who? The last thought is about Stare Bene as a suitable thing. On villas area there are a lot of new single houses close to famous villas as Palladio's. Now we can ask each other if the foreign elements are new villas or the Palladio's one. We can use the same point of view for the industrial area were man is not suitable with contest. At the matter of fact in the factories area all has been projected in a big scale, and people can't neither walk on the streets.
PRESENTATION 05-08-2009 Vicenza Experience
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WELL BEING PRESENTATION 05_11_09 CODIGORO EXPERIENCE Comment on Presentation about Boscone della Mesola
Improving our concept about wellness we found that often this is strongly linked to another concept, which is equilibrium, or better balance. Then we tried to synthesize our four themes with a symbol that could be a useful reading instrument, during the study of the area of the Wood of Mesola. As we entered the history, the morphology and its nature, we found that this is a dynamic landscape, but managed in some kind of static way. This opposition provokes an action/reaction process, which we symbolized with a dune, because balance isn't a stasis but a dynamic process with many phases. In the beginning this wood was property of the Estes who made it a holiday residence for hunting and relaxing. We could say that this was a balance, but when Ferrara came to the Pope's influence the equilibrium was disturbed and so on until the wood was used for taking resources by French or other nations. This way of doing influenced the ecosystem and in particular the trees' population; in fact to preserve it, they tried to regrow the vegetation planting some exemplar of pino marittimo, which once again
disturbed the balance, and so on until the II World War and the creation of the Boscone della Mesola natural reserve. The dune reminds also the morphology of the wood. In facts its ground is formed by sea and wind's action, and so they create the dunes, with three different ecosystems, on three different levels. On the highest one, which is drier, we can find a kind of trees or animals, instead on the lowest one, which is wet and humid, there is a totally different vegetation. As we can see it's a landscape with so many dynamic balances on whom people acted without thinking of reactions, which often were out of control. It seems that man would control landscape, not manage it, but landscape however finds a way to escape the limits. Man always put limits, maybe thinking to reestablish the balance, and so he disturbs equilibrium of the wood but it doesn't care about. For example, to repopulate deers he used fawns. This wasn't a natural way to proceed, so it caused a variation of vegetable population (because fawn hasn't the same diet of a deer, obviously); grass comes down and this meant instead birds and arboreal animals come up. So after man disturbed natural balance, nature tries to reestablish a new different one. Actually they for keeping in safe nature, they decided to lock in nature and to lock out men, maybe because human beings forgot how to live in nature. Maybe we aren't used to live in a real natural contest, sometimes we are afraid of it or we think that it fears us. Allergies, bad knowings, fears make us to put us out of nature and to put it in a reserve. There isn't a real link between man and this landscape, you can only watch but don't touch it.
PRESENTATION 05-11-2009 Codigoro Experience
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? Industry this landscape is very squared but there
WELL BEING PRESENTATION 05_11_09 VICENZA-CODIGORO COMPARISON

Lock in and lock out is a concept born of our previous analysis about wellness. That, as you know, is based in four themes: psico-fisico wellness, economic, in terms of individual and collectivity and the Italian expression ci sta'. Those terms became one when we connect with a different landscape: the central theme became balance, but with all the analysis the key word is limits. Limits made by man that influences the environment and himself. In these days we have experienced three different kind of landscape: the villas, the industrial and the natural reserved landscape.
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is natural element like the river that breaks the human limits. In this case man isolates the river for the others and himself. So no one can use it, only watch. ? Natural environment here the community estranged itself from this landscape. There is no real connection between these two environments, however it seems to be. The common line for these landscapes is that you can watch but can't reach it. Man thinks in a static way and pretends to act on landscape in his way to control it, but he forgets the landscape is something dynamic and so when we make an action there's always a reaction. Man build walls but animals/humans natures break that limits and tries to come in and out. This is another example of the man estranged himself, he creates a system so large that loses the human scales, like the industrial area. Our conclusion is more like a rhetorical question: How the manage the limits? In a negative or a positive way? Is possible to create a dynamic limit where inside something can happen? Where is no excluded the interaction between the parts?
Villas in this kind of landscape the man try do isolate himself in a sort of ivory tower. But the community is always trying to enter the private space.
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Helena Briones, Ana Raquel Ferro, Maria Giovanna Govoni, Alexandra Hancock, Cristiana Mattioli, Alessandra Mossa, Ilenia Rubino, Maria Vicente
INHABIT PRESENTATION 05_08_09 VICENZA EXPERIENCE

The first approach that we had of the Italian territory was Vicenza. We visited two sites of the city and its surroundings. The first area was around the Villas and the second around the industrial area. We analysed both areas under the Inhabiting point of view. After these visits the group realised that both sites had common keywords. These keywords are:
? Limits ? Public Space vs. Private Space ? Distance ? Fast/Slow + ways of life ? Sounds
spaces, public and private. On the first case, the wall is a visual and physical limit between public and private space. On the second one, there is no wall, so the limit between public and private space fades. These cases can be compared to a cloister and a shop window. Following this analogy, the cloister would be the case of the Villas. The walls dont allow a relationship between public and private space, just unlike the shop window, which allows the stranger in the street to see the private space and feel part of it. Distance: We have made a subdivision of distance being visual distance and physical distance. In the villas the visual distance was very short regarding that it was a snake like path. On the other site, the visual distance was very long, thanks to wide and straight streets. The first case had less physical distance than the second case; which, in terms of visual distance it felt the opposite. Fast/slow + ways of life: On both visits we saw a difference between fast and slow territory. The fast territory refers to the city in which you find all kinds of facilities; this applied to our cases of study which are the city of Vicenza and the Peep neighbourhood. The slow territory refers to the Villas and the dormitory neighbourhood in which you have no access to facilities and you have to use the car to reach them. And so we can say that there are different ways of life: the tranquillity of the Villas type and the stress of the city type. Sounds: The keywords fast/slow + ways of life are the producers of different types of sound. On the slow territory the only sounds you can hear are the birds and silence we felt like we were at the countryside. On the other hand, the fast territory is a noisy territory where you can hear cars, ambulances, people moving, constructions, etc.
Limits: On the first site we felt that the walls surrounding the Villas were a visual limit. Despite this, we consider that it is not a negative fact. These walls give wings to our imagination. If we cant see whats inside them, we try to imagine it. But it is not until we reach the entrance gate of the villas that we get to see what is really inside. This intercalation between imagination and reality generates RHYTHM. On the second site we didnt find the same kind of limit. In fact, the limits we found were the opposite. They separated private space from public space with a low fence. Unlike the other site, imagination is not there anymore. Public Space vs. Private Space: The limits we have talked about generate two types of
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INHABIT PRESENTATION 05_11_09 CODIGORO EXPERIENCE

To know and discover the territory of Ferrara we made two travels, one by train along the railway Ferrara Codigoro, one by car, along Via Comacchio. We focused on urban structure of all villages that are on the railway and the relationship that each village has with the two infrastructures (railway and road). We also noticed the elements that give the condition for the settlement in this territory; the typology of houses in the village we visited, Massa Fiscaglia. We decline the topic Abitare in different ways and scales. Settlement Systems, FerraraCodigoro: ? Linear System ? Clot System ? Bridge System ? Desert System We noticed four kind of settlement. The first one is the Linear system where houses are only along the main street and there isnt connection with station and railway. All facilities appear on Via Comacchio and for this reason the street becomes a public space. The structure of Quartesana, Dogato and Ostellato, belong to this system. Also the second system, that we called Clot System, rises from Via Comacchio, but later expands itself until the railway. The station remains at the edge of the village and railway represents a limit for the urbanisation. Here the villages have a center with bar, church and town hall far from Via Comacchio. We can find this system in Cona, Rovereto, Migliarino and Massa Fiscaglia. In Masitorello and Migliaro urbanisation gets over the railway and the station is included in the village. This is the Bridge System. The Last system, called Desert System, is characterized by isolates houses in territory which doesnt have any relationship with both infrastructure, Via Comacchio and railway. There are two exceptions, Ferrara and Codigoro, where the infrastructures are not only Via Comacchio and railway but also the canal. This towns are different because are bigger than the other villages. In Ferrara, the urbanisation goes beyond railway and canal including these infrastructures in the city, while in Codigoro the railway can be considerated as a limit and the canal pass through the town.
Center of community, orientation or gathering As we noticed during the visit all rural towns have some elements in common: the bar, where people meet together and spend a lot of time during the day, the church, center of religious community, and Arci, a social, political and cultural association. These elements are orientation or gathering point for this territory and create community with social, political, ecclesiastic influence. House Typology, Massa Fiscaglia Massa Fiscaglia develops itself between Via Comacchio and railway and belongs to the Clot System. We spent more time in Massa Fiscaglia, and there, we focused on house typology . There are three different house typologies:
? individual houses, without garden, placed along the street. ? Individual houses with garden, with vegetables or flowers ? Collective houses, with services on the ground floor.
Toponymy Its interesting to underline that etymology of towns name is strictly related to the territory. In particular to agriculture, swamp, and trade. CONA: its root means tip, curve. It meant that Po divided itself in two branches near Cona. QUARTESANA: its name originates from Massa Quartigiana that was a quarter of annual farm production for the Church. MASI TORELLO: the name is derivated from Masi,an agricultural system in which the owner paid workers trading with goods. OSTELLATO: Ostium means outfall, mouth; from this word derives Ostelladum or Ostellatum. CODIGORO: the name derives from Gaurus, the ancient Po di Goro, a territory that was a fork of river branches. MIGLIARINO: maybe Migliarino becomes from the name of a swamp bird. MASSA FISCAGLIA: close to Massa Fiscaglia there was a check point; people that waited for fiscal control created Massa. Train like moving square During the travel to Codigoro by train, we noticed that train can be considerate like a square, because on it we can do a lot of activities, for instance sleeping, eating, reading, walking, speaking etc...The train, or better the life on the train, changes every time because people always change. Train users as a moving and temporary community.
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INHABIT PRESENTATION 05_11_09 CODIGORO-VICENZA COMPARISON ABITARE A VICENZA E FERRARA

After doing the analysis about the territory of Vicenza and Ferrara, we reflect about the common and the different characteristics of the two case studies. Its important for us to start the presentation pointing out the issues that we have necessarily faced at the beginning of our comparison. 1) When we did the visits of the sites, we focused on a variety of elements that depend on the different scales of the two territories. In fact, in Vicenza, we were in an urban context where we could study the historical centre, the villas system, the territory of Colli Berici that is very close to the city and also the first suburban expansion of Vicenza with its industries and its residential neighbourhoods. Instead, in Ferrara, we reflected about the territorial system and the connection between the city and rural villages along the FerraraCodigoro railway. 2) With regard to the centralities, we think that, considering Vicenza and the nearby territories, we can speak about one main centre that attract the districts around it. On the contrary, in Ferrara we found a lot of centers with different degrees of attraction. Ferrara, like Vicenza, represents the main centre, where country people go studying or working, while some villages along the railway become the centers of the nearby smaller villages. They are independents because they have services, schools and other facilities. 3) Vicenza and Ferrara are different also considering the quantity of non built territory. In particular, Vicenza is characterized by scarce greenfields, as the hills become an important limit for the construction of new houses. The landscape between Ferrara and Codigoro is an agricultural one. It is characterized by openness and apparent emptiness caused of its economic use. After these considerations, we focus on two main themes: limits and dependence.
Limits: During the first presentation, we talked about limits. In Vicenza we found three different kinds of limit, linked with the different scales we considered. Starting from the most particular perspective, we noticed the walls that separated private and public space. These elements are an obstacle, they force the visitors to go on without stopping on the pedestrian path but, considering them from another point of view, they can be also a stimulation for imagination. If we dont see what is inside, we can imagine it. The reflection takes the place of the reality and become even more important. The second type of limit is the edge of the residential district with its orchards (Ferrovieri district). In this case its impossible to reach the river, event to see it. Inhabitant arent interested on it, they prefer to have a little private piece of country instead of walking in the natural landscape. The third kind of limit is represented by the hills. These geographical elements have always contained the expansion of the city. They become today an important source for the territory, linked with tourism (villas) and environmental issue. In Ferrara, we saw two types of continuous limits: the railway and the canals. As we saw in the second presentation, the villages have often been contained between these elements, while they got over the road that is normally in the middle of the linear towns. We have to think about the possible uses of all these limits, for example the continuous ones can become a system of connection between the villages. Dependence: With regard to the dependence, we can say that, in Vicenza, we discovered different degrees of dependence that arent linked with the physical distance. The PEEP district is nearer than the new residential neighbourhood from the city center but is more independent because its provided with services and facilities for the inhabitants, while the other district is thought just for the car. We enter it just to reach home, the streets are closed and private, the public space exist but is bad organized, the services have to be reached by car. Massa Fiscaglia, the village we studied more, is self sufficient and characterized by a strong local identity. The community exist, everybody knows each other and there are a lot of services. People have to move to the city for particular reasons, as culture (university, theatre),work or access to interregional transportation. We can say, in general, that probably the relationships existing in the Ferrovieri district are similar to those of country villages. The hidden dimension: At the end, we present a reflection we made about the relationship that can exist between inhabitants (natives) and visitors. In particular, we considerate the sensations and
PRESENTATION 05-11-2009 Codigoro-Vicenza Comparison

emotions we felt during the visits. We experienced three different moods. We felt outsiders in the residential district where inhabitants look us as we couldnt enter the area and express their distrust. We were tourists in Vicenza; we perceived the indifference of people, who are used to meet strangers. We were strangers in the Ferrovieri district in Vicenza and in the country villages in Ferrara. In this case, natives people were friendly, open and curious about us. SWOT analysis: We use the SWOT analysis just to summarize all the things we have discovered about the two case studies. The strengths of Vicenza are the cultural heritage, the natural landscape of hills and the familiar small and medium firms. Certainly the industry is ugly and polluting and it can become a threat for the environment. An opportunity is to increase the tourism, even if it can cause a lack of identity among the inhabitants. Ferrara have similar strengths (heritage, tourist). We can add the importance of the university and the agriculture in the economy, the role of bicycle in local transportation, the presence of local fairs in rural villages (quality of foods). The train that links Ferrara
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and Codigoro is not so well, its old and obsolete. Its abandon can cause the isolation of villages. On the other hand, the potential of train and canals can be the creation of a connection between villages and a decentralization of functions. It can be interesting to give more importance to local events for attracting more visitors and characterized each rural town. We know that the dynamics of Vicenza sprawl exist also in Ferrara, so the final question is: does the territorial system (like the one existing on the railway FerraraCodigoro) can be found in Vicenza? It can be useful to study deeply the provincial territories to understand at the same scale what these city are, avoiding simple contrasts like urban/rural, industrial/agriculture.
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INHABIT PRESENTATION 05_13_09 TABLE CLOTH

At this point of the work, we tried to reorganize some issues that we focused on before and to improve some concepts that could explain our keyword Abitare in a planning approach. This is an intermediate step and it was necessarily a work in progress. We spread a cloth on the table and everyone at the same time could write and draw all the suggestions or proposals. The table cloth became at the same time a symbol of an unfinished work and permitted a free flow of ideas. The advantage of this tool was that each component of the group could be able to have a global vision of the work even if at the first sight the drawings could seem chaotic. The table cloth was not only a way of working but also a incisive tool to share with other groups our ideas and reflections. The table cloth was divide in some sections. A part of it resumed the analysis about the territory of Ferrara and Vicenza, focused on the different kind of settlement and the relationship between different territorial systems.
The areas have different degrees of density and fragmentation characterized all the territorial cities. We found also some physical and artificial elements like river, hills, road and railway. Sometimes this elements could be considered as a limit or a connection with differ kind of accessibility. Another level of reflection was about the relationship between public and private space and the way of living it. The drawings explained how the spaces were used, not used or used by inhabitants in a spontaneous way. We noticed that in both cases there are some traditional gathering places where communities creates its own meeting points and increase territorial identity. In part of the table we compared the historical systems of Ferrara and Vicenza making a possible parallelism between the villas of Palladio and the system of Delizie Estensi. A cultural heritage already placed in the Unesco circuit but now underestimated. Besides analysis we underlined the opportunities of each territories to formulate some proposals. In Ferrara the idea is to create an inter-villages system through public transport system, the improvement of stations and some events that could bring attention to all territory. About Vicenza the strategy is to bring the city into the territory through common spaces through some micro-punctual actions. We worked on path, landscape views and public, private and common places.
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hand, they could find noising the new situation and decide to close their property. In the suburbs of Vicenza we found different situations: in the new residential neighborhood public spaces exist but are not used, even if they are organized and well maintained, while in the PEEP district private spaces are used for urban agriculture and become common spaces. In this case the problem is that the river is inaccessible and underused. Moreover we must say that this part of the city presents some infrastructural problems, generated by the fracture of the railway line. People need car to move to the city centre. In both context we underlined a private use of the open spaces: the garden can become a window to show the lifestyle of the family or an orchard, but it reflects a sort of negation of public space that loses its rule. We thought about the creation of a system that can link first the districts with the river, then, through this natural element, the two districts and finally this part of the city with the centre, undercrossing the railway. The strategy is to mix private and public spaces to encourage the use of common spaces, that can be characterized by some attractive and flexible activities. The positive scenario is represented by a well-organized space that can be used by the inhabitants (best practice: Bordeaux), while the negative one can be symbolized with a specialized park (the activities could be too heavy for the territory, attracting mostly tourists). The two case studies are now divided by a physical element: the hills. Our intent is to link them using the potentialities of this connective system. If we imagine an integrated and global urban and territorial circuit, we can easily understand its social power. All the districts will reach the same dignity, every inhabitant can participate in the territorial identity. The last case study is the one of Ferrara and its regional territory, in particular the towns that stand on the train system Ferrara-Codigoro. We did a simple analysis about the urban structure of different villages. We focused on two configurations: the linear one and the compact one (compact like a clot). The first is organized on parallel infrastructures (railway and main street), the railway tation is often not very well connected with the village and the centrality is absent. An interesting thing we noticed is that, even if the square doesn't exist, the bar and all the community places choose to put the adjective central in the name of the activity. In fact, this tendency reflects the spontaneous use of space: the community creates its own meeting points. In the clot system all the community and symbolic structures find their place in the main square: the
INHABIT FINAL PRESENTATION 05_16_09

The presentation begins with the interpretation that we gave at the keyword abitare, that is very important in the understanding of our work. The common approach refers the word abitare to private space, in particular the house. We chose an innovative approach that stand on an inversion of perspective: the action of living is not only linked with private space but also with the territory in general, with the aim to recognize it as an important part of the identity of the inhabitants. So the topic is public space. Normally public space is the residual space that results from private space. We aren't interested in this position, public space must become common space, which means a space that gives the opportunities for the meeting of fragmented identities and communities that can share some of their characteristics in increasing each others. It's interesting to point out that common space can be private. Our purpose is to bring the city into the territory through common spaces. The presentation is organized in a chronological way that follows the experience we did during the workshop. We present the three case studies: Vicenza, with its two sites, and Ferrara and the nearby region. With regard to the historical circuit of Vicenza's villas, our analysis pointed out a presence of not organized and not continuous public spaces which are mostly functional. They are used just to reach the villas. Moreover, these places haven't quality. They are unattractive, in particular for the inhabitants that rarely go there. The strategy wants to make the spaces more interesting and accessible for people adding some quality with simple interventions. Public space can become common and the path can be not only a place where people pass by but also a meeting place. We can imagine that the inhabitants who live along the path can be affected by the quality of public space and can turn themselves on the pedestrian road, also making some little ameliorations to their houses. On the other

town hall, the church, the bar, the ARCI association. All the territorial system is characterized by the same traditional gathering places that can be opportunities because they represent the common spaces of these communities. Now the clot villages, which are most organized and richest in services that the others, attract the nearby smaller towns and create a sort of poles of interactions. The train links all the villages but it's now underused and so degradation and vandalism are visible in the stations and on the wagons. The idea is to exploit the opportunities given by the existent: train stations can host attractive activities, link together through the train system. Events that already exist, for example the sagra, can be increased and made more visible, becoming a pretext to bring people to villages. The competition between villages stands on complementary activities. All the villages have the same importance and visibility and are necessary for the functionality of the system, a true inter-villages system. The train must be used as a street, where people can meet. The infrastructure participate directly in the general system becoming a social infrastructure.
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Obviously the complementariness is the power of this system and is the element that gives quality to global territory through variety. The negative scenario is represented by specialized villages that can create a situation of conflict and competition among them. The inter-villages system gives the possibility to villages to share tradition and culture without losing their identity. Instead, the towns can create new relationship based on a new territorial identity. The final proposal, showed with previous examples, is the creation of relation landscapes: linear common spaces used by inhabitants as a connection between different (cultural) landscapes and identities. The experience given by these new elements increases people identity and relationships through/in the territory.
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Landscape Regional cultural heritage (with

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Diary Journal of Daily Student Activity and Impressions

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Intensive Program in Landscape Studies 1 / 2008-2009

DIARY 05-05-2009 - Vicenza

LAPIS Lifelong Learning Program

Intensive Program in Landscape Studies 1 / 2008-2009

DIARY 05-05-2009 - Vicenza

LAPIS Lifelong Learning Program

Intensive Program in Landscape Studies 1 / 2008-2009

DIARY 05-05-2009 - Vicenza

LAPIS Lifelong Learning Program

Intensive Program in Landscape Studies 1 / 2008-2009

DIARY 05-05-2009 - Vicenza

LAPIS Lifelong Learning Program

Intensive Program in Landscape Studies 1 / 2008-2009

DIARY 05-05-2009 - Vicenza

LAPIS Lifelong Learning Program

Intensive Program in Landscape Studies 1 / 2008-2009

DIARY 05-06-2009 - Vicenza

LAPIS Lifelong Learning Program

Intensive Program in Landscape Studies 1 / 2008-2009

DIARY 05-06-2009 - Vicenza

LAPIS Lifelong Learning Program

Intensive Program in Landscape Studies 1 / 2008-2009

DIARY 05-06-2009 - Vicenza

LAPIS Lifelong Learning Program

Intensive Program in Landscape Studies 1 / 2008-2009

DIARY 05-06-2009 - Vicenza

LAPIS Lifelong Learning Program

Intensive Program in Landscape Studies 1 / 2008-2009

DIARY 05-07-2009 - Vicenza

LAPIS Lifelong Learning Program

Intensive Program in Landscape Studies 1 / 2008-2009

DIARY 05-07-2009 - Vicenza

LAPIS Lifelong Learning Program

Intensive Program in Landscape Studies 1 / 2008-2009

DIARY 05-07-2009 - Vicenza

LAPIS Lifelong Learning Program

Intensive Program in Landscape Studies 1 / 2008-2009

DIARY 05-07-2009 - Vicenza

LAPIS Lifelong Learning Program

Intensive Program in Landscape Studies 1 / 2008-2009

DIARY 05-08-2009 - Vicenza

LAPIS Lifelong Learning Program

Intensive Program in Landscape Studies 1 / 2008-2009

DIARY 05-08-2009 - Vicenza

LAPIS Lifelong Learning Program

Intensive Program in Landscape Studies 1 / 2008-2009

DIARY 05-08-2009 - Vicenza

LAPIS Lifelong Learning Program

Intensive Program in Landscape Studies 1 / 2008-2009

DIARY 05-08-2009 - Vicenza

LAPIS Lifelong Learning Program

Intensive Program in Landscape Studies 1 / 2008-2009

DIARY 05-08-2009 - Vicenza

LAPIS Lifelong Learning Program

Intensive Program in Landscape Studies 1 / 2008-2009

DIARY 05-08-2009 - Po River Delta

LAPIS Lifelong Learning Program