Abstract
The paper proposes an interdisciplinary exploration in order to define a set of strategies and tools oriented at planning/design/management of archaeological landscapes, especially featured by productive layers. The article adopts as a key dimension the “cultivating” approach, which can become a fertile ground for experimentation for developing sustainable and innovative planning methodologies to be applied in layered landscapes. In an extended semantic dimension, the term cultivation can be interpreted as a continuous attitude of taking care of (archaeological) places over time, to preserve and regenerate resources for the future in a holistic vision, also considering economic sustainability and liveability for inhabitants and local fauna. The cultivating approach can preserve heritage places by an active and inventive conservation, also fostering biodiversity and temporal diversity. As a case study, the article proposes the Landscape Masterplan for the Baratti and Populonia Archaeological Park.
Highlights
Attribution — Silvia Guideri is the author of paragraphs 3, 4 and 7, whereas Tessa Matteini is responsible for paragraphs 0, 1, 2, 5 and 6
For a Semantic Introduction Before addressing the core issues proposed by this paper, it seems crucial to explore the different meanings of the verb cultivate, highlighting its broad semantic extension, as interpreted and proposed in recent works focusing on landscape architecture projects
In order to do this, we should remind ourselves that the term cultivation derives from the Latin verb còlere which is supposed to have come from an Indo-European root kwel, intended with the primary meaning of di “revolving the soil,” “tilling the earth.”[1]
Summary
Attilio Brilli, Quando viaggiare era un’arte (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1995); Cesare De Seta, Vedutismi e viaggiatori in Italia tra Settecento e Ottocento (Turin: Bollati Boringhieri,1999); Raffaele Milani, Il paesaggio è un’avventura. Speaking just a few years after the archeo-mining park of San Silvestro was inaugurated, this was how Riccardo Francovich summed up the philosophy behind the project and the creation of the Sistema dei Parchi della Val di Cornia: “An incisive archaeological investigation does involve the people who work on it, it involves local area policy in general [...]. 36 The Strategic Cultural Development Plan was drawn up by a Technical Discussion Group comprising Stefano Casciu and Maria Gatto (Polo Museale della Toscana), by Andrea Muzzi and Andrea Camilli (Soprintendenza per l’Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per le Province di Pisa e Livorno), Roberto Ferrari, Alessandro Compagnino, Maurizio Martinelli (Culture and Research Sector, Tuscany Region), Alessandro Bezzini (Piombino Town Council), Silvia Guideri (Parchi val di Cornia S.p.A.). 38 Guidelines to establish and valorize archaeological parks, adopted by D.M. on 18/04/2012
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