Outstanding places 2009
exhibition of reports
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Once again, the Bomben exhibition spaces have housed the materials of the Outstanding places competition.
This third edition has seen a further increase in participation, with over one hundred and fifty reports and, at the same time, its evolution which has led — to mention the most significant elements — to an ever keener participation of schools and to a significant number of submissions pertaining to places in varying conditions of neglect and requiring some form of intervention.
The spirit of the submissions also stems increasingly more from the participants’ eagerness to prepare projects, form their desire to tangibly tackle issues of territorial governance and the wish to somehow take part in the processes that determine the form and quality of the places, thereby offering an invaluable and perhaps unique opportunity to know thoughts and issues of the people who experience the sites everyday, therefore for a civil exchange of opinions among the various entities concerned.
By exhibiting, as usual, all received materials (texts, photographs, drawings, videos) and the in-depth analyses curated by the Foundation to showcase the reported sites and illustrate the main issues highlighted by the edition, the aim was to actively involve all visitors in the conversations started by the submissions, also by offering some preliminary “provisional conclusion” on the significance of these first three years of the collective Outstanding places project.
Over three thousand visitors were recorded, on average more than 35 a day (in comparison to 22 of the first edition and 32 of the second), taking the total number of people involved in the exhibitions over three years to more than 8,500.
Once again, this year, visitors took an active role by voting for the reported sites and providing other observations. Again, through their diversity, the most popular sites offer a good representation of the world of Outstanding places: the three favourite ones are the hillside house in Rugolo di Sarmede where the celebrated illustrator Stefan Zavrel lived, the hamlet of Savassa Alta with the Meschio headwaters in Vittorio Veneto and the Molinetto della Croda watermill in Refrontolo.
On the sidelines of the Landscape Study Days, which took place last 5th and 6th February on the topic The concept of place, the Jury of the International Carlo Scarpa Garden Prize (and of the Outstanding sites competition) visited the exhibition and expressed their observations on the current edition and programmes.