CREATIVE DRIVERS FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING HERITAGE LANDSCAPES

Heritage landscapes are usually the product of a fairly sustainable exploitation of the environment, but anthropic practices are increasingly leading to a loss of their heritage value.
Identified gap: loss in their capacity of conceiving and implementing practices able to generate sustainable landscapes.
PALIMPSEST works to reduce this loss by exploring how new practices can be conceived and made sustainable being enhanced by the contribution of arts and creativity.
Landscapes are constantly re-shaped through multiple forces: socio-ecosystem dynamics nested in individual and social behaviors; sense-making and action practices grounded on different and at times divergent rationalities; production and consumption modes; architectural, cultural and symbolic values, e.g. associated to heritage, memory and identity.
From this perspective, landscapes – as built, living and dynamic manifestations of stratified nature-human interaction processes – are the privileged foci for the observation of misalignments, tensions and contradictions in the equilibria between human activities and the physical and natural spheres. In this way, they become Spielräume where to envision, sketch and experiment with new ways of conceiving and embodying tangible and intangible effects of landscape practices, intended as ways to generate landscape architectures inherently aiming at climate and sustainability transition.
PALIMPSEST works on the identification and development of culture-embedded practices that will
1) plug into place-specific landscape transformations that are contested due to environmental issues
2) embed cultural and creative components in their transformative ability
3) be configured as practice-based ecosystem services
4) prove to have potential in terms of economic sustainability of Culture and Creative Industries (CCIs) operators.