Conflicted Landscapes [Wilderness]

Open Lectures Cycle – LOL International Workshop

12/09/2024, h. 18:00
Politecnico di Milano, Polo Territoriale di Piacenza, Campus Arata, Padiglione Vegezzi

The debate often discusses the role of the wilderness in the contemporary environment and how architecture, through design, can mediate between spontaneity and control, between doing and not doing, and between design and the unkempt. In a world where even wild spaces are confined to reserves and where it seems that ‘nature’ exists only for hedonistic and leisure purposes, it seems challenging to design space to understand living beings, all of them, in a transversal way. We see this conflict in recent cases in which wild animals have come into contact with anthropic systems, such as the Peller JJ4 bear. However, interference between the wild and the domesticated can take unexpected forms and create unexpected synergies and unintended clashes. How, then, if “the landscape is a monster” What added value can the sylvan bring to the conception of contemporary spaces? How can conflict inform design strategies and cultural attitudes to repair our relationship with the wild?

Relatore

Annalisa Metta, Università degli Studi Roma Tre

Responsabili

Giulia Cazzaniga, Federico Di Cosmo, Michele Roda