Creative cities: which (historic) urban landscape?

CONFERENCE

Making cities creative requires today the diffusion of new values, references and projects  related to the individuals and the communities that constitute them. At the level of public  polices, we notice also the announcement of proposals to acclimatize behaviours to new development logics, regarding the development of educational, cultural, and financial services to attract new talents.

This issue is less frequent if we start from the establishment of a mutual relationship between the city and its landscape, assuming the latter both as visualisation of urban forms and as daily experience made by the inhabitants. How do temporary choices, which forge landscape (architecture, property rights management, etc.), reinforce (or not) the  creative ways of thinking and live? (Xavier Greffe, trad. Marco Acri)

We can have different perceptions of landscapes, depending who is concerned about this. The traditional perception of a landscape could be associated with many mythological perceptions, as well as virtual spatiality related to these. Today, people are often too busy to look – apart from some enthusiasts. Recognition of landscapes and/or cultural landscapes as heritage, and that is what they should be, is a learning process. I think that the question is not only about protection of certain landscapes. It is more often than not of continuing to design and develop our ‘environment’ so that the product does not destroy the qualities, but rather enhances them. (Jukka Jokilehto)

Organises: ETCAEH programme  - University of Nova Gorica and IUAV University of Venice

19-20 February, 9.00-18.30
Ex Convento dei servi di Maria, campo della Chiesa 3, Sant’Elena, Venezia

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Mag. Marco Acri
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