Snapshots of an experience

Cooperating is always an experience, sometimes it’s a tiring one, but if the project you’re working out is interesting, it happens that from a certain point on things just simply go on smooth. This is what is actually happening within the subproject called “Landsible”, on landscape responsibility.

The project involves 3 Italian partners (provincia di Cuneo as lead partner, parco regionale Marturanum and provincia di Agigento) and a Greek partner (Municipality of Greece). The project is divided into 3 steps: the first of reciprocal acknowledgment and concerning the analysis of landscape needs and critical aspects; the second consists in the building up of a common methodology of individuation of landscape values; the third is the application to local landscapes of the common methodology in order to gain a landscape management tool which is in line with ESDP and with “European Landscape Convention”.

At first, the cooperation was not so easy because of language differences, of different competences of partners and because of their different economical development levels and landscape needs. However, partners found a common topic n the analysis of their “marginality”, to be intended not as only a negative aspect, but also as a resource to be valued. The cooperation found new energy when the different economical development and landscape rates of partners were put in a row: in this sense, each partner could take a glance on the partner’s characters and learn from others’ experiences in the management of local landscape issues.

For what concerns common activities, the first meeting was held in Chiusa Pesio (Italy, Piemonte, provincia di Cuneo) in the month of October; here partners knew each other for the first time and started to discuss about their landscape urgencies and needs. The second meeting was held in Barbarano Romano (site of the parco regionale Marturanum, Lazio, provincia di Viterbo) in the month of March and it gave very interesting outcomes. Firstly, partners had great opportunities to pass time together and to confront experiences and difficulties. Secondly, they had he opportunity to verify if the work done was in line with what expected and changed and adjusted some of its aspects. Thirdly, they brought their personal contribution to the definition and realization of specific steps; for this purpose, work to be done was subdivided according to competences of the different partners.

The end of the next step will coincide with a meeting to be held in Agrigento (month of July), during which partners will arrive to a definition of the common methodology, having started to experiment it in local context. As a matter of fact, this is a relevant aspect of the project: not to elaborate methodology apart from practice, but to carry on both, in order to gain a useful feedback for methodology and for theory deriving from practice at a local scale. When discussing landscape issues, the danger to avoid is to set only theoretical discussions and projects, which then are not to be put into practice. In order to avoid this, partners decided to put theory and practice dynamically in relation, and at different scales. In Agrigento partners will value the results of this choice; just to anticipate something, the impression is that this idea worked and is quite useful at least to gain consciousness about landscape problems and to point out possible and efficacious strategies of resolution of landscape emergencies.

For Provincia di Cuneo and Associazione Culturale Marcovaldo
Roberto Franzini Tibaldeo
roberto.franzinitibaldeo@istruzione.it

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