The Garden of Eden is no more

In the current situation, indelibly marked by human action and characterised by environmental acceleration that we experience first-hand every day, an idea has gained ground that does not view the garden as a protected area and a perfect place of domesticated nature, but as a space, both metaphorical and real, of cultivation and care, of ecological and social relationships, of direct experience and interaction with nature, of well-being and creativity, of civic activism and aesthetic resistance.
A welcoming and experimental place, ideally always open, that garden that Ippolito Pizzetti loved and defended, working tirelessly to spread a culture of design based above all on knowledge and respect for nature.

The Foundation’s work on landscape and gardens continues to be inspired by this cultural heritage and the natural inclination of the great landscape architect and garden inventor, dedicating this year’s series of late summer meetings to a shared reflection on the inevitable implications of the environmental acceleration we are experiencing on the landscape and landscape projects. Particular attention must be paid to the responsibility that we are all called upon to face, to move beyond the frenzied consumption of resources but also beyond the myth of unspoilt and untouchable nature.