Sleeping Landscapes - Rethinking human-nature relationship in marginal situations
Geronimo Felici Fioravanti
The interpretative and design image of “Sleeping Landscapes” finds its roots in three design experiences that follow some common threads in terms of context characteristics and design approach, focusing in particular on the redefinition of the relationships between humans and nature.
Master Thesis Special Mention Europan 16 Norway First Prize Europan 15 Sweden 2019 2020 2021
Rethinking Uddevalla as an inclusive and productive city
The Sleeping Mountain A (Re)Activation Scenario for the Monte Amiata Territory
An Efficient and Cohesive socio-economic ecosystem
Authors Author
Co-Authors
Stefano Ivaldi
Silvia Raineri
Geronimo Felici Fioravanti
Chiara Magnini
Martina Parma
Sleeping Landscapes - Rethinking human-nature relationship in marginal situations
Supervisor
Geronimo Felici Fioravanti
Prof. Matteo Motti
Authors
Geronimo Felici Fioravanti
Chiara Magnini
Francesco Palmia
Alberto Cristofori
Geronimo Felici Fioravanti
The geographical marginality is mainly related to the localization of a territory or settlement, far from the centers of important relations, infrastructures and services.
In this sense the geographical marginality it is often at the base o other kind of marginalities
Monte Amiata as a Middle Earth Master thesis “The Sleeping Mountain. A (Re)Activation Scenario for the Monte Amiata Territory”
Sleeping Landscapes - Rethinking human-nature relationship in marginal situations Geronimo Felici FioravantiThe social and economic marginality can be related both to socially problematic neighborhoods that are peripheral to the urban center and to territories that are disconnect ed from the large networks of economic relations to which the large urban centers belong.
In both cases there is a problem of “disconnection” which has social and economic implications for the population.
Sleeping Landscapes - Rethinking human-nature relationship in marginal situations
Geronimo Felici Fioravanti
Europan 15 Sweden, Uddevalla (SE)
Hovhult - housing blocks and public spaces
S.Ivaldi + S.Raineri with: G. Felici Fioravanti, C.Magnini, M.Parma
Legacies of a past made up of different production economies that have translated on the territory both in terms of space and in social characters, leaving a rich set of abandoned structures and infrastructures.
sx: Abandoned shipyard Europan 16 Norway, Fgerstrand (NO)
dx:Old abandoned mine Master thesis “The Sleeping Mountain. A (Re)Activation Scenario for the Monte Amiata Territory”
Sleeping Landscapes - Rethinking human-nature relationship in marginal situations Geronimo Felici Fioravanti
Places that have always been linked to an economic function driving the economy and that once failed or closed, leaves the settlement or the territory in economic but also social problems as the population could identify with itself in that activity, without a capacity of re-inventing itself.
Master thesis “The Sleeping Mountain. A (Re)Activation Scenario for the Monte Amiata Territory”
Sleeping Landscapes - Rethinking human-nature relationship in marginal situations
Geronimo Felici Fioravanti
The reccurent situations in wich these kind of place have also in common is the proximity or the full immersion in and high value natural environement.
up: “Bulid” Natural area in Uddevalla Europan 15 Sweden, Uddevalla(SE)
down:The forest of Monte Amiata Master thesis “The Sleeping Mountain. A (Re)Activation Scenario for the Monte Amiata Territory”
Sleeping Landscapes - Rethinking human-nature relationship in marginal situations
Experiencing the natural environment is very easy for these place, that are close of fully immersed in it.
This is a characteristics that for nowdays stated again to have a very important role in the people’s life.
Fagerstrand fully immersed in the forest Europan 16 Norway, Fgerstrand (NO)
Sleeping Landscapes - Rethinking human-nature relationship in marginal situationsPlaces that are experiencing seasonal flows of tourists making them “explode” in summer” and empty in winter, withou a continuos flows.
Sleeping Landscapes - Rethinking human-nature relationship in marginal situations
Places that are experiencing loss of population due to the marginal conditions in which they find themself.
The “Borgo” of Arcidosso Master thesis “The Sleeping Mountain. A (Re)Activation Scenario for the Monte Amiata Territory”
Sleeping Landscapes - Rethinking human-nature relationship in marginal situations
Knowing or recognise is based on the fundamental operation of investigation. Investigating thoroughly and recognizing situations, peculiarities, specificity, characteristics and social and spatial economic dynamics allows us to produce knowledge, not only for design purposes but also indirectly for the personalities involved in the study. This methodological phase therefore, in addition to creating awareness of situations, allows us to act with legitimacy and adequacy.
The operation of interpretation means to understand and explain in its true meaning, or in what is considered most appropriate, what is known and could be understood through a thorough investigation of the previous operations. The identification of particular characteristics related to each other and the exclusion of some of them is in this sense at the basis of the operations of interpretation. it is an operation of “relating elements” to each other.
On the basis of the knowledge and interpretations performed what are the possible scenarios that are legitimate in a specific context? The answer to this question leads to the final part of the operations that are those of rethinking the exiting through the construction or reconstruction of something new or the adaptation of what exists to different conditions that influence their being. Rethinking is the most purely design operation that allows us to imagine possible solutions and outcomes to problems and issues raised during the cognitive and interpretative phases, which have le- gitimized us to rethink something according to a certain type of idea.
Sleeping Landscapes - Rethinking human-nature relationship in marginal situations Geronimo Felici FioravantiThe scenario is a powerful tool that allows us to imagine possi ble developments. It represents a highly flexible tool open to different types of actions that has the ability in a first instance to produce knowledge, awareness and to explore different possibilities, withtout giving a defined and static solution like a Master plan.
Sleeping Landscapes - Rethinking human-nature relationship in marginal situations
Geronimo Felici Fioravanti
Using a multiscalar appraoch means to define strategies and actions that work not only in a specific place but they can be spread in a recurrent situation within a context and they can have different impacts at different scales.
For example a specific action can have a specific effect in a specific place but at the same time if you look at it in a different scale it can have other kind of effects
Recovering old train stations as thematic SPOTs along a new cycle route Master thesis “The Sleeping Mountain. A (Re)Activation Scenario for the Monte Amiata Territory”
Sleeping Landscapes - Rethinking human-nature relationship in marginal situations
Geronimo Felici Fioravanti
The definition of Sleeping Landscapes refers to the past, present and possible future of those places.
Sleeping landscapes can be define as the places where we can find a richness in legacies of past economies, that left in those places spatial, social and economic signs. We could say that those legacies are “sleeping” there waiting to be awakened.
The second meaning refer to the “sleeping” potential as unexpressed and unconsidered potential that those places have, related to the possibilities of reusing the legacies of the past but also and mostly related to the potentiality linked to the natural environment in which they are placed.
Lastly the design meaning wants to refer direclty to the ways of approaching Sleeping landscapes in the practice of design. This means that we should define specific strategis that allow to unlock the potentials without impacting in a negative way on the rich natural environments. This is possible trying to re-thinking the relationship between humans and nature, being privileged places to do so.
Sleeping Landscapes - Rethinking human-nature relationship in marginal situations Geronimo Felici Fioravantistrategies and actions for a renewed human-nature relationships in Sleeping Landscapes
Sleeping Landscapes - Rethinking human-nature relationship in marginal situations
Geronimo Felici Fioravanti
1 - Slowness in Motion: a new cycle route
2 - Agri - Experience: agricolture and widespread hospitality
4 - Nature - Experiences: 3 new hospitalities
Sleeping Landscapes - Rethinking human-nature relationship in marginal situations Geronimo Felici FioravantiSiena Spots
Olive groves
Chestnut groves
Agro -Hub
Slow Station Seggiano
The new AGRO - HUB
Union of farmers and farmhouses
Widespread hotel
Support for local products Widespread hotel reception
Agro - School
Farm Lab Agro - research
Place of knowledge interaction
E-MTbike stations
Farmhouses
AGRO - HUB
Widespread hotel
Castel Del Piano
Sleeping Landscapes - Rethinking human-nature relationship in marginal situations Geronimo Felici FioravantiTo implement, enhance and make accessible to everyone the system of paths by connecting the three new environments with each other and with the famous Via Francigena from Rome to the south of England.
First prize JALLA! Europan 15 Sweden, Uddevalla (SE)
- Productive cities 2
JALLA!
farmhouses
Bulid as an agro park, a natural area and a leisure infrastructure
NEW RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES
External loop
sport hub leisure and accomodation internal loop
JALLA!
ACCESSIBLE GREEN AREA
FROM BULID FARMS TO DALABERG FOOD MARKET support system between farms with unique food sale points of local product into Bulid area
S.Ivaldi + S.Raineri with: G. Felici Fioravanti, C.Magnini, M.Parma
First prize JALLA! Europan 15 Sweden, Uddevalla (SE)
Sleeping Landscapes - Rethinking human-nature relationship in marginal situations
Geronimo Felici Fioravanti
Sleeping Landscapes - Rethinking human-nature relationship in marginal situations
PRODUCTION Agriculture and Agroforesty
Playground
EXPERIENCING
Itineraries,Clearings and AGRO-hospitality
ECOLOGICAL CORRIDORD Forest -Sea, Forest- City
Free activities Watersports Rest areas
Event place
Birdwatching Tree top view Camping under the stars Multiseasonal furnitures Multiseasonal furnitures
Team sport ground
Special Mention HYGGE Europan 16 Norway, Fagerstrand (NO)
Sleeping Landscapes - Rethinking human-nature relationship in marginal situations
Geronimo Felici Fioravanti
Sleeping Landscapes - Rethinking human-nature relationship in marginal situations
Geronimo Felici Fioravanti
C.Magnini, M.Parma