UNISCAPE “Where Disciplines Meet” online Lecture – 9 May 2022, 17.30 - Wind Energy and Culture of the Landscape. Guidelines for an adequate installation
Speakers:
Daniela COLAFRANCESCHI, University of Reggio Calabria “Mediterranea”;
Fabio MANFREDI, University of Genoa; Pere SALA, Landscape Observatory of Catalonia
Landscape and Energy represent an inseparable and innovative binomial because of the challenges they implies and on which we measure the quality of our habitat. The landscape design interprets the convergence of territorial values with the innovation of an energy system: it is not measured on a geographical scale, but draws from geography the sense of an overwriting of everyday places to which it gives sense and orientation, meaning and narration. Besides presenting the report “Wind Energy and Landscape. Guidelines for a suitable installation ”, i.e. a research into the methodology for installing wind farms, the session presents a critical reflection on the possible spatial, ethical and aesthetic effects.
Landscape and Energy represent an inseparable and innovative binomial because of the challenges they implies and on which we measure the quality of our habitat. The landscape design interprets the convergence of territorial values with the innovation of an energy system: it is not measured on a geographical scale, but draws from geography the sense of an overwriting of everyday places to which it gives sense and orientation, meaning and narration.
Besides presenting the report “Wind Energy and Landscape. Guidelines for a suitable installation in Catalonia”, i.e. a research into the methodology for installing wind farms, the session presents a critical reflection on the possible spatial, ethical and aesthetic effects.
The research – an experience conducted by the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia, on behalf of the Generalitat – moves in a dialectical position between ecology, society, nature and culture and does it by overturning the approach: not the project for a correct installation of wind power plants, but the project for a wind power plant capable of
enhancing the territory, in a new and unified landscape configuration. Energy of the wind and the culture of the landscape as a new ‘contemporary nature’. The aim is an advancement of thought on design tools, that espouses the dictates of the European Landscape Convention and more recent ambitious goals set by the UN with the 2030 Agenda.
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