ECLAS CONFERENCE in GENOA 23rd-27th september 2009

ECLAS CONFERENCE  in GENOA 23rd-27th september 2009
Landscape & Ruins.
Planning and design for the regeneration of derelict places
Faculty of Architecture, Stradone S.Agostino, 37 ` GENOVA
 
CALL for ABSTRACTS: deadline  15th january 2009
send abstract (max 2.000 characters) to aghersi@arch.unige.it
Abstracts selection: before 1st march
Deadline for full length papers/posters: 30th april
 
Conference theme

Ruins have special meaning in relation to the landscape and the garden: the sense of loss, of broken harmony and, at the same time, the hope of the future rebirth.Landscape in ruin should be not only archaeological sites or traces of old gardens and sites, but places destroyed by catastrophic events ` earthquakes, hurricanes, floods ` or by the war, ordinary landscapes like post-industrial areas, abandoned railways areas, contaminated periurban and agricultural landscapes, with problems of rejection and disorder. The abandoned places in their several meanings ` from the classical ruins of Villa Adriana to faux-ruin gardens created in the English parks, to the ruins of the World War and to more recent ruins of European areas involved in the post-conflict reconstruction process (C. Woodward, In ruins, 2002) and the non-places ` the ambivalent spaces that do not hold enough significance to be regarded as ]places^ (M. Augé, Non-lieux. Introduction à une anthropologie de la surmodernité, 1992) are a peculiar aspect of contemporary landscape. The landscape in ruin can have very fast degradation and very slow transformation. In the processes of evolution/devolution landscapes can have various potentialities from the ecological, social and cultural point of view.
They are the ]Third landscape^, and they will become the landscapes of the future.
The architecture planning, design and management has the social responsibility to recapture landscapes which are in ruin for different reasons.
 
Conference subjects

Regeneration of rejected landscapes
Catastrophic events and landscape change
Plants in ruined landscapes
Archaeological landscapes

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