Underground

International Landscape Study Days

2025, XXI edition

Treviso, 20th-21st February

 

The theme for the 2025 Study Days, which represent the key moment of reflection and public debate on the lines of research of the Fondazione Benetton and are structured in talks, debates, editorial presentations and screenings, revolves around the key word underground.

 

Stimulated by a number of observations from landscape architecture, ecology, the natural sciences, environmental art, anthropology and the evolving study area of environmental humanities, the intention is to reflect on the option of shifting our gaze over the landscape from the surface to its very depth. And in so doing, offer a more complex and interconnected picture of life on Earth, made up of intricate, invisible and underground relationships that naturally also involve Homo sapiens without considering the latter as a supreme, dominant species.

 

The programme, edited by Luigi Latini (director of Fondazione Benetton and professor of Landscape Architecture at Iuav University of Venice) and Simonetta Zanon (head of landscape research and projects of Fondazione Benetton), will be preceded on February 14, 5 pm, by the online talk Underland with Robert Macfarlane, writer, Professor at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, author of the book Underland (2019, italian edition: Einaudi 2020).