Woods and words. Lexicon on forms and care
in the context of “Naturale inclinazione” 2017
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Lorenza Gasparella, phD in landscape architecture, scholar at Fondazione Benetton in 2016-2017, will present her research and will discuss it with Mariagrazia Agrimi, researcher at the Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest Systems, University of Tuscia; Marco Romano, director, Fondo (Trento); Sara Tamanini, Park and garden office, Trento City Council. Coordinated by Luigi Latini, scholarship tutor.
Ippolito Pizzetti had no doubt that his true passion does not lie in the forest, “there is no more need to think about it, it exists only in fairy tales, and not even the bush, as I am too civilised”, but in the wood. “If I had to choose between a large and well-designed garden,” he says, “and a small fenced wood, I think that I would choose the wood, without a doubt.” Looking back at the 30 years of activity of the Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche per il paesaggio, we can find many woods that differ in terms of character and type, united by the fact that they are places with which different linguistic or disciplinary groups have established different relationships. In order to understand them, we need to start from the words that describe them, which are often used by assuming a shared meaning. Illustrating the semantic slippages of different vocabularies allows individual disciplines to maintain full integrity in the awareness that, in landscape architecture, they all go hand in hand with each other.
8.30pm – screening
Piano Forest
Masayuki Kojima’s animated film (Japan, 2007,101′), introduced by Lorenza Gasparella.
A forest that houses a mysterious piano, which seems unable to emit any sound at all, and two boys with the same passion are the protagonists of this story about the dynamics generated by the encounter between two personalities and their approach to music, which is opposite but equally intense, becoming a growth factor for both of them.