International Landscape Study Days 2022 ABANDONMENT

Abandonment – The landscape and  the fullness of the void

International Landscape Study Days
2022, XVIII edition
February 18th
February 24th-25th
March 11th
Fondazione Benetton
online on Zoom

Anaïs Tondeur, Geranium chinum, Pigment print on Hahnemühle paper, 2011-2016. Exclusion Zone, Chernobyl, Ukraine. Radiation level: 1.7 mSv/h (courtesy of Anaïs Tondeur).

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The theme of abandonment of working and living places – from rural to mountain communities, minimal living spaces to large industrial complexes – has long been at the centre of the debate on the future of our planet and has given rise to a flourish of projects which, even as regards the landscape, has generated new methods and attitudes.
Current forms of abandonment need further study and the landscape and garden culture can approach this with a mindset and the means that consider this condition a value
in itself and an opportunity for growth, seeing actions not as corrective measures but as an invaluable exercise in coexistence.
Abandoned places are therefore not purely a memory of the past or spaces waiting to be replaced by something new: the question is now how this state of limbo or lack of consideration can give rise to a “culture of abandonment”, which landscape research, together with the involvement of many others, can adopt and “cultivate” in a constructive
and shared manner.
Over the three days, there will be discussion and debate on the contributions that explore, on the first day, such diverse topics as the abandonment of the mountains and forests or the farmed countryside, as seen from a geographical, anthropological, landscape, agronomic or forest viewpoint. The evolution of the contemporary urban landscape and the fate of “leisure” spaces, with large-scale facilities the victims of abandonment, will be the focus of the second and third sessions of the conference.

Here for the complete program and registration

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Friday 25 February, the session wth Dolomiti Contemporanee.
> h 4.30pm

leisure landscapes

· Abandonment as a commission for art and landscaping, Katja Aßmann, artistic director Spreepark, GrünBerlin, Berlin

· Dolomiti Contemporanee, Gianluca D’Incà Levis, founder of Dolomiti
Contemporanee, director of the ‘Spazio di Casso’ centre at Vajont

· Regimes of care and neglet, Martì Franch, landscape architect, EMF paisatge, Girona

· Memory, topophilia, conflict and urban transformation: “abandoned” football stadia, Fabio Salomoni, sociologist, Department of Foreign Languages, Koç University, Istanbul