Abstract
The essay introduces some questions about landscape research and its relations with the actual and increasingly pressing dictatorship of images and the value of digital in contemporary culture. The research develops within the field of investigation of representation, with the aim of showing the centrality of these sciences in correlation with the virtuality of the landscape. The ante litteram intuitions of Robert Venturi are the foundation for tackling the theme without preconceptions, without seeking predefined models, without anticipating what you intend to find. Thus, we intend to read the landscape in relation to the questions of post-truth and the simplifications that are always related to picturesque heuristics. In fact, the contemporary landscape has dried out many of its meanings, becoming mere communication. A process in which every interpretative model of reality is created through cultural action and where culture is collective memory, but given that contemporaneity is canceling collective memory through the hammering of information and disinformation, news and denial, truth or lie, the interpretative modeling process can only transform facts and circumstances into simple sterile opinions. With these circumstances, the conditions for being able to face concrete problems have been lacking for some time, entrusting all hope to communication, the only remedy for the real solution of problems. It is a question of image. The culture of images has denied the existence and veracity of the image itself, which is revealed. An image could be untrue, it could be modified, biased, or corrupt, and it could be a digital simulation. The image creates too many doubts to be taken seriously. Therefore, in the era of the image, in order to describe the concrete problems faced at least for a period of one generation, the real icons are missing. Will our landscape be only an image? Is the image still collective memory? As the memory of experiences has disappeared, it is increasingly difficult to be able to build models to be experienced in reality. The complexity of reality will have no solution except through the rediscovery of our memory, which passes through the restructuring of society, of the common good and participation in the choices that mark entire generations. With these three assumptions, the topics covered are declined in the various research promoted by those who write in the territory of Umbria, all paths united by an irreverent desire to investigate the complexity and contradictions and enter the network of the many connections inherent in the landscape.
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The present work is part of the results of the wider research entitled “Integrated strategies for the Chiascio basin”, developed by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering with the Municipality of Assisi, Bastia Umbra, Bettona, Gubbio, Perugia, Torgiano and Valfabbrica (2019–2020). Working group: Fabio Bianconi, Marco Filippucci, Andrea Fancelli.
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The present work collects part of the results of the wider research entitled “Integrated strategies for the enhancement of the landscape of Campello sul Clitunno (PG)”, developed in the 2016–2017 period by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering with the Municipality of Campello sul Clitunno and the Antonio Meneghetti Foundation, working group: Fabio Bianconi, Marco Filippucci, Elisa Bettollini, Maria Pia Calabrò, Michela Meschini, Marco Seccaroni.
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The present work is part of the results of the wider research entitled “Study of the anthropic transformations of the Umbrian landscape”, developed by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering with the Umbria Region, working group: Fabio Bianconi, Marco Filippucci, Elisa Bettollini, Maria Pia Calabrò, Simona Ceccaroni, Michela Meschini, Marco Seccaroni, years 2015–2017.
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The present work collects part of the results of the broader research on the relation between perception and urban space that has been carried out in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering since 2015 by a research team consisting of Fabio Bianconi, Marco Filippucci, Elisa Bettollini, Maria Pia Calabrò, Michela Meschini, Marco Seccaroni.
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This work collects part of the results of the research project “New responsive templates. Skills, tools and actions for contemporary landscapes” developed by the University of Perugia, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (2019). Working group: Fabio Bianconi, Marco Filippucci, Marco Seccaroni.
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The present work collects part of the results of the project entitled “Color Plan of Historic Centers in the territory of the Municipality of Deruta”, carried out by the engineering company Esaprogetti srl of Perugia in the years 2009–2012. Scientific manager of the project prof. Fabio Bianconi, Coordinator of the activity Dr. Marco Filippucci. The plano-altimetric and architectural surveys were carried out by Studio A of Collepepe (PG), the study of color and the project was developed by the Esaprogetti srl company. Ing. Riccardo Pasquini, ing. Paolo Nicolini, ing. Francesco Trevisani, collaborated in the drafting of the project. https://www.comunederuta.gov.it/piano-del-colore/ [2018]. The perceptual analyzes were developed by a working group: Fabio Bianconi, Marco Filippucci, Elisa Bettollini, Maria Pia Calabrò, Michela Meschini, Marco Seccaroni.
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The present work collects part of the results of the broader research on the relation between perception and urban space that has been carried out in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering since 2015 by a research team consisting of Fabio Bianconi, Marco Filippucci, Elisa Bettollini, Maria Pia Calabrò, Michela Meschini, Marco Seccaroni.
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This work collects part of the results of the research project “Study and research for the development and urban redevelopment of the Fontivegge area in Perugia” developed by the University of Perugia, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (2016), funded by the Municipality of Perugia. Working group: Fabio Bianconi, Marco Filippucci, Elisa Bettollini, Benedetta Buzzi, Andrea Ciurnella, Michela Cristofani, Mattia Manni, Michela Meschini, Elena Tancetti, Maria Pia Calabrò, Jessica Castagna, Elisa Florindi, Marco Seccaroni.
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This work collects part of the results of the research project “Architectural studies and researches of urban design connected to the rapid transport bus proposal for the Urban Mobility Plan Perugia” developed by the International Lab Landscape of the University of Perugia and the TPS Transport Planning Service company of Perugia (2018–2019). Working group: Fabio Bianconi, Marco Filippucci, Marco Bifulco, Alessandro Buffi, Giulia Pelliccia, Marco Seccaroni.
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This work collects part of the results of the research project “Architectural design studies for multifunctional urban spaces” developed by the Lab Landscape of the University of Perugia and Comitato per la vita “Daniele Chianelli” of Perugia (2017–2019). Working group: Fabio Bianconi, Marco Filippucci, Elisa Bettollini, Michela Meschini.
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This work collects part of the results of the research project “Interactive dynamic representation for digital co-design” developed by the University of Perugia, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (2019). Working group: Fabio Bianconi, Marco Filippucci, Filippo Cornacchini.
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