DOMENICO LUCIANI Post-modernity: managing the transition of uprooted landscapes (abstract)
There is a discontinuity in the long history of places in the industrial age. Man had always used the surrounding land, drawing every possible resource from it for his settlements, production and movements, with times and methods that did not damage nature and did not impoverish the cultural heritage that gradually accumulated.
With the advent of the modern age, the means and quantitative parameters of use were no longer comparable with previous ones, to the extent that, in terms of the physical environment, there has been a consumption of places, damage to the environment, uprooting and irreversible impairment of the territory.
Today it is a question of managing the transition of the impaired places towards “other” places corresponding to “other” anthropologies, new cultures, revived communities.
The form and the possible life of landscapes, after their uprooting, can never return to the previous state but may only be imagined by starting from a knowledge of the history and geography of the same prior to the laceration.
Invention springs from remembrance. Invention without remembrance is just another discontinuity, yet another uprooting.
If, as European convention has it, it is true that the landscape is a sphere of physical space as perceived (and therefore managed) by the community that has settled there, we must think of the transition firstly as a process that changes ideas and things, for which populations become fully responsible as well as involved.
