Abitare i paesaggi inattesi: DOM – e la pratica del cammino

Abstract

Urbanized territories have expanded invading the space and modifying the dynamics defined over the centuries of slow development, often making the city indistinguishable from the non-city. In this condition, an unforeseen form of landscape takes place and determines itself, unexpectedly interposing between the planned meshes. By appropriating spaces transitorily rejected by hyper-functionalization, wild environments nomadically occupy empty sites until a new order to come. The practice of walking to cross spaces is an experience of comprehension that allows human beings a renewed way of dwelling in the world. The article assumes that the design process over wild areas continue to occur through an analytical understanding formulated from the outside, often from an elevated point of view (maps or aerial photographs). From this position, the article aims to describe an alternative, but not mutually exclusive, attitude: a practical and creative look from the inside, which relates to the actors (including non-human ones) who collaborated to populate that landscape. The inspired crossing of the wild nature, becomes an artistic way to relate with the place. Describing the practices of DOM – Pratiche di abitazione nel paesaggio, a researh project born in 2013 by the artists Leonardo Delogu and Valerio Sirna, leads to immerse in the actual territories which are more and more present in the Mediterranean landscape. Artistic practices, as their last project Wild facts, the winning proposal of the public call Eureka! 2020-22, propose a renewed relationship art-nature made of observation, contruction of circumstances and listening. The article ends with a demand to consider this artistic and design method, which favors a new approach to dwell that is not codified. Linked to the (bio)diversity of the composition of actors gives a creative alternative to a vertical form of analysis, understanding and planning action.