Friday, November 12, 2010 hours 16:00
The opening event of FLORENS 2010- International week of Cultural and Environmental Heritage: Restoring landscape

Florens 2010, International week of Cultural and Evironmental Heritage with the contribution of Friends of Florence
Friday Novermber 12- from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Sala Camillo Boito


Speakers: Roberto Cecchi, Renato Soru, Peter Pearce, Paolo Perone.

Moderator: Martin Angioni
The economic development of the second half of the last century created a serious damage to the Italian landscape cause of a great diffusion of the so called process of anthropization. Modernization which in this period is a synonymous of industrialization cased a rapid growth of the periphery quarters and an extension of the metropolitan zones in places like the pianura Padana, for example. The economic crises of the last two decades, pushed to a delocalization of many industrial districts, giving the opportunity to think again at a possible new programme of interventions on the territory. In spite of this situation, landscape restoration was always forgotten and considered as something of secondary importance respect for example to the restoration of monument. From a cultural-historical point of view today is universally recognised that landscape and cultural heritage are deeply linked and inseparable: it is really impossible to study and understand the phenomenology of a monument or of an artwork without considering the surrounding territory. It is impossible to preserve monuments without preserving the territory where they are allocated. These two words (landscape and cultural heritage) elements of a well known Italian beauty were not preserved and too few attention was paid to their internal and structural needs as preservation campaigns or restoration actions. The first studies about cultural heritage and monumental restoration were conducted in Italy at the end of the 19th century by Camillo Boito, Gustavo Giovannoni and Cesare Brandi. No researches were made about Italian landscape!. This workshop will try to pay attention at this problem in the context of a valorisation of the liaison between art and nature, landscape and cultural heritage which needs today not only of a preservation project but also of a total campaign of territorial reprise The architect Roberto Cecchi, who in his work at the Parc and at the Italian Ministry for Environmental Policies is hardly working in defence of Italian landscape, will take part at the workshop, together with Paolo Pejrone, one of the maximum experts in landscape and garden Architecture, Renato Soru, former president of Sardinia and Francesco Gurrazzi, expert in landscape restoration.

Peter Pearce will finally presents an English experience based on a private foundation, which restored and gave back again to citizen’s fruition more than 250 historical buildings, many hectares of the English countryside and a whole island (Lundy Island) located in front of the Cornwall coast.

Attending:

Arch. Roberto Cecchi
Segretario Generale Mibac e Commissario della Sopr. Archeologica di Roma e Commissario per i lavori delle metropolitane di Roma e Napoli
Renato Soru
Ex presidente Regione Sardegna, promulgatore della leggecd."Salvacoste" Cagliari
Peter Pearce
Direttore - Landmark Trust, Londra

Arch. Paolo Pejrone
Paesaggista e architetto di giardini, Saluzzo (CN)
Arch. Francesco Gurrieri

Chairman:
Martin Angioni
Economista della Cultura Il Giornale dell'Arte

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