Search results for " Cultural landscape"
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Land set-up systems in Italy: A long tradition of soil and water conservation sewed up to a variety of pedo-climatic environments
2020
Land set-up systems in Italy were and, in a few cases, still are integral parts of agricultural landscapes. The soils of Italy mirror a wide variety of climates and morphologies and derive from a great diversity of parent materials influenced by different soil temperature and moisture regimes. Furthermore, their development was influenced by several anthropogenic activities over time including land settings. Land set-up systems have been widely used throughout the Italian soilscape to regulate surface and underground water and to improve the physical soil features in a way that ensures mixed herbaceous and tree-crops cultivation. In recent times, new technologies have been introduced in agr…
“L’arte dei muri a secco”, confronti tra esperienze per la conservazione del patrimonio culturale dei paesaggi rurali
2023
The European rural landscape has been designed for centuries by the art of the construction of dry stone walls and by the arrangement of terraced bands, becoming a cultural expression of identity common also to rural contexts geographically distant from each other. In 2018, eight European countries obtained the transnational recognition of the “Art of dry stone walls” in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List. The contribution questions, on the basis of some case studies, how UNESCO recognition can concretely favor the start of that necessary support for studies and conservation of the knowledge preserved in the experience of the workers, who often lack professional recognition and re…
THE ROLE OF MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT TREE ORCHARDS AND VINEYARDS IN MAINTAINING THE TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE
2012
The Mediterranean area represents one of the most suitable and diversified environments for horticultural crops, being this propriety well expressed in the commonly accepted definition of “Mediterranean cultivated garden”. In Italy, fruit crops have been in the past introduced and expanded in different environments depending on the species and adaptability to the physiographic characteristics of the regions. The climate and the diversity of environmental contexts, the specificity of soils, the plasticity of the cultivated genotypes, have allowed a tight and typical relationship among land and farmers. Since the past centuries olive and fruit orchards, vineyards and Citrus plantations have r…
Paesaggio e memorie dell'antico: dall'archeologia all'arte contemporanea
2021
The aim of this paper is to compare different perceptions of cultural landscapes: the landscape of a Hellenistic-Roman city, Halaesa, reconstructed through archaeological surveys, and the contemporary landscape – natural and cultural – that characterizes the Tusa river, so-called “Fiumara d’arte”, where some installations of modern art have been made. Here the modern art is integrated with the landscape, in which it seems to emphasize some peculiar aspects, result of complex interactions. This analysis allow us to use the archaeological data to understand the relationship between human activities the symbolic aspects which connect ancient and modern communities to their territories.
Il design nelle produzioni in pietra lavica dell’Etna. Processi naturali, artificiali, culturali
2018
Il testo indaga il progetto di elementi e oggetti in pietra lavica, che declina il carattere di “preziosità” di un materiale connotato da una forte identità territoriale e versatilità nell’uso. In particolare, di alcune produzioni in lava si vuole esplorare la capacità comunicativa ed evocativa rispetto al “paesaggio culturale” del Monte Etna, indicato dall’UNESCO come “uno dei più attivi vulcani iconici del mondo e uno straordinario esempio di processi geologici continui ”. Si analizzeranno alcune sperimentazioni che, pur esprimendo declinazioni del design diverse per modalità di produzione e fruizione condividono l’attenta considerazione degli originari processi di formazione del material…
Looking at Mediterranean gardens as evidence of historic and cultural landscape.
2014
I paesaggi agrari tradizionali dell’albero: il significato moderno di forme d’uso del suolo del passato
2011
Italy represents one of the most suitable environment for fruit trees and vines and since the origin of their domestication and introduction in extremely varying environments, depending on the species adaptability and local culture, a complex mosaic of landscapes has been originated by Nature, farmers or gardeners. In the study of the landscape it must be considered that the relationship between fruit trees or vines and landscapes represents a precious aspect of the Italian culture and has been studied by History, represented in Art and Literature, analyzed by science like Architecture and Agronomy, but at first has been created by Agriculture. Owing to the evolution of the relationship lan…
Proceedings of the Meeting Botany at the intersection of Nature, Culture, Art and Sciences
2019
The scientific meeting for which the Proceedings are published in this volume 28 of Bocconea was not organized by mere chance. It was designed as an appropriate way to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Professor Werner Greuter, tireless protagonist of OPTIMA and key figure in Mediterranean, European and, by certain of his skills, indeed world botany.The two-day Symposium was sponsored by the Section of Botany and Plant Ecology of the STEBICEF Department of the University of Palermo and received substantial support from the Selinunte and Cave di Cusa Archaeological Park, the International Foundation Pro Herbario Mediterraneo, and the Foundation Herbarium Greuter. The scientific programme com…
Pratiche di conoscenza e fruizione collettiva per un’accessibilità fisica e culturale del patrimonio monumentale
2022
I-Access, progetto Interreg Italia-Malta, si interroga sui temi dell’accessibilità fisica e culturale nei centri storici delle città di Palermo e La Valletta, accomunati da storie parallele di uomini, monumenti, spazi urbani. E lo fa con la costituzione di un gruppo formato da esperti di restauro architettonico e di design della comunicazione visiva, facendo dialogare i due ambiti disciplinari che condividono metodologie e strumenti di lavoro. In tal modo i dati materici e storiografici raccolti dai primi vengono tradotti in configurazioni visibili, leggibili, ordinate, in cui la nuova struttura narrativa consente la corretta accessibilità culturale del monumento e della sua storia. Insieme…
Diversità paesaggistica e multifunzionalità dei sistemi agro-forestali dell’Etna
2010
Il paesaggio dell’Etna è un complesso di paesaggi ricchi e diversissimi grazie alla estrema variazione di quote ed esposizioni che da sempre condizionano attività umane e crescita degli organismi; il cono vulcanico etneo rappresenta il principale rilievo e contemporaneamente la formazione geologica più giovane dell’Isola. Tra la fascia basale, maggiormente soggetta ad intesificazioni colturali e quella montana a carattere forestale domina la fascia pedemontana caratterizzata da un’importante valenza paesaggistica e biologica. Allo scopo di prevenire la degradazione o peggio ancora la perdita di questi particolari agroecosistemi è necessario colmare le lacune conoscitive sulla classificazion…