Curare la terra / Caring for the land
Luoghi, pratiche, esperienze / Places, practices, experiences
a cura di / edited by Patrizia Boschiero, Luigi Latini, Simonetta Zanon
cover price 22 euro
Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche-Antiga Edizioni
Treviso 2017
bilingual edition, in Italian and English
XIV-226 pages, 108 illustrations in colour and 11 in black and white
ISBN 978-88-99657-61-1
(Memorie, 17)
The volume contains contributions by: Benno Albrecht, Giuseppe Barbera, Hervé Brunon, Maria Cheyenne Daprà, Juliette Ferdinand, Giovanni Fontana Antonelli, Anna Lambertini, Anna Magrin, Roberto Netto, Joan Nogué, Marco Romano, Massimo Rossi, Massimo Venturi Ferriolo, Simonetta Zanon.
Curare la terra. Luoghi, pratiche, esperienze/Caring for the land. Places, practices, experiences has now become a book thanks to thirteen articles that grew out of a collective effort that took place within the Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche in the context of the tenth edition of the “International Landscape Study Days” (Treviso, 20th-21st February 2014). Beginning with a series of historical and philosophical reflections, the book examines recent concepts and practices expressing a necessary new cultural condition as well as a diffused sense of responsibility that emerged in an approach to the land based upon a substantial adhesion to an evolving world that we recognize as landscape. The book observes the European panorama, its history and the current crisis as well as providing windows on different worlds where actions generated by different cultural orientations and other economic and social conditions can help us to understand the meaning of caring for a place. It focuses on the importance of the mental dedication, of the necessary practices and on the role of the trades and crafts revealing the extent and significance of the transformation of the spaces belonging to our daily lives. This is obviously an open topic, a far from exhaustive investigation that intends to observe, reflect and raise further questions going beyond the idea of “project” based on the mere use and control of forms extraneous to the real processes of change and to the aspirations of people. The aim is to foster a different approach to safeguarding and preservation, and to reflect on the value of the many actions emerging from the inevitable interaction between culture and nature and that we now read as “caring for the land” together with anyone questioning the meaning of landscape in contemporary society.
Contents
Prefazione, VII/Preface, VIII
Introduzione di/Introduction by Giuseppe Barbera, Lo studio e la cura dei luoghi, IX/The study and care of places, XII
Joan Nogué, Il fenomeno neorurale. Verso una nuova territorialità, 1/Neo-ruralism. Towards a new territoriality, 9
Hervé Brunon, Prendersi cura: giardino, vita activa, saggezza, 15/Taking care: garden, vita activa, wisdom, 29
Juliette Ferdinand, Curare la terra, curare le anime. La filosofia dell’agricoltura secondo Bernard Palissy, 41/Caring for the land, caring for souls. Bernard Palissy’s philosophy of agriculture, 51
Massimo Venturi Ferriolo, Curare la terra ovvero la cultura del bene comune, 61/Caring for the land or cultivating the common good, 67
Benno Albrecht, Immense muraglie verdi, 71/Great green walls, 86
Anna Lambertini, Il dono come paradigma del progetto per i paesaggi ordinari, 97/The gift as a paradigm of the ordinary landscapes project, 108
Marco Romano Paesaggi alpini: relazioni di cura e pratiche amorevoli, 115/Alpine landscapes: relationships of loving care and practices, 120
Maria Cheyenne Daprà, Allevamento di ovini per la cura del paesaggio, 124/Caring for the landscape through conservation grazing, 125
Giovanni Fontana Antonelli, Palestina 2004-2014. Paesaggio abitato, diritti umani e resilienza, 127/Palestine 2004-2014. Inhabited landscape, human rights and resilience, 144
Anna Magrin, La cura delle buone abitudini: Ashar Macha. Khondaker Hasibul Kabir e il giardino-biblioteca nello slum di Korail, a Dhaka, 154/Taking care and building good habits: Ashar Macha. Khondaker Hasibul Kabir and the garden library in Korail, Dhaka, 161
Roberto Netto, Simonetta Zanon, I “luoghi di valore” e la cura del paesaggio. Gli antichi vigneti e il borgo di Baver, 165/“Outstanding places” and care of the landscape. The ancient vineyards and the borgo of Baver, 180
Massimo Rossi, Paesaggio, cartografia e cura dei luoghi. I simboli della vite e del tratturo, 191/Landscape, cartography and care of places representing vineyards and trackways, 203
Bibliografia / Bibliography
Note su autori e curatori / Notes on authors and editors
Referenze sulle illustrazioni / Photo credits
Indice dei nomi e dei luoghi / Index of names and places
