Seminario Internazionale Uniscape En-Route "Resilient Landscapes for cities of the future"

Following the recommendations of the European Landscape Convention, the aim of the UNISCAPE En-Route seminars is to help build over time a common knowledge and understanding among UNISCAPE network members and thus strengthen the network in its actions both at local and at the European level. By addressing both types of audiences – members of UNISCAPE and other academic participants on the one hand, local stakeholders and decision makers on the other – they hope to be the seed for new landscape-based local dynamics. Each seminar is an opportunity to reflect on the values, issues and modes of intervention specific to the present state of the landscape-types present in the “anchor site” of the host institution and project their future. It intends to be an incubator of knowledge in reference to a given concrete landscape, where the sharing of experiences helps to stimulate new or existing initiatives that promote innovative thinking about landscape dynamics both locally and globally. The seminars will offer the opportunity: -to confront academic research and project thinking to the landscape reality of the anchor site of each institution. The UNISCAPE community and the other participants involved in promoting the European Landscape Convention are invited to discuss thematically related landscape research with a European scope to the questions raised by a specific site, and translate theoretical approaches into a site-specific, project-driven research approach. The seminars will thus be the occasion for participants for in-depth exchange on common issues of significance for European landscapes, and thus promote “mutual assistance and exchange of information” (Chapter III - Art. 8). -to promote the European Landscape Convention by addressing both a European-wide academic community and local stakeholders and decision makers (institutions, politicians, inhabitants, social and economic actors). This will give the opportunity for local landscape actors to open up the questions they are facing at home to a wider European context, and for academics to present their research to a new audience within a specific landscape context. Thus, by reaching out towards local landscape actors and combining the more academic activities with other thematically related events (site visits, film, exhibits, etc.), the seminars will offer a concrete opportunity for “awareness-raising“ (Chapter II -Art. 6). The Seminar Resilient Landscapes for Cities of the Future organized by the School of Architecture and Design "Eduardo Vittoria" of the University of Camerino, proposes the landscape as an indicator of the state of health of an area, the quality of life of its inhabitants, and the sustainability of development. In this edition of UNISCAPE En-Route Seminars the focus will be on the Adriatic city, where the factors of the crisis of the contemporary city and its landscape will be observed, and the vision opened to different European countries through a "call for papers". According to the targets identified by UNISCAPE, the comparison between the different European experiences presented within the papers will be developed with reference to the following main focus: - Landscape as project - Education / Training - Research -Landscape Observatories The Topics of the seminar are the following: 1 -The landscape in designing a new form of the city: projects to address climate change through the reorganization of the urban systems 2 - The landscape in overcoming the economic crisis: favouring the social and economic growth of local communities, acting on natural and cultural resources that have not yet been appropriately enhanced . 3- The landscape as a community project: the role of inhabitants in the construction/restoration of territorial values 4- The landscape as a laboratory for good living: the fruitful relationship between agriculture, tourism, natural and historical/artistic resources, and knowledge of places.