Abstract
The culture of urban space design is not separate from the uncanny nature of climate change, even though this latter now appears more threatening than the production of risks or new vulnerabilities. Environmental disasters and cities’ high degree of exposure to these risks are well known. What is apparent is the close relationship between these disasters and the urban transformations generated by approaches which, quoting the writer Amitav Gohsh, can be defined as outcomes of the Great Derangement Era. Through our research and design project; we have outlined the need to break free from the uncanny feeling caused by the specific phenomena which make territories more fragile and vulnerable to extreme weather and climate events. The design process illustrated, which involved a small town in central-western Sardinia, is an example of how the construction of a new urban landscape and architecture can take place starting, not only from the contingent risks of emergency situations, but rather from the recognition of any potential risks. With the goal of setting up an open and sustainable territorial plan, the case study has been designed as an approach to climate adaptation even if in Sardinia the link between climate change and flood risk has not been studied in depth and no evidence of this link has yet emerged. The project scenarios of an urban plan for one of the local governments in Sardinia, highlighted in the paper, has been conceived as a path of coevolution between new urban transformations and ecological dynamics of the environment.
Highlights
The Unthinkable LandscapeAs the Indian writer Amitav Gohsh pointed out in his essay The Great Derangement, Climate Change and the Unthinkable [1], the climate crisis is a crisis of culture and imagination
The culture of urban space design is not excluded from modes of disorientation or indifference to climate change
Rather than investigating what is really happening in relation to climate change in Sardinia, our research explores the effects of the changes in vulnerability of the territories that cause disasters in urban environments and expose the population to significant environmental risks
Summary
The Unthinkable LandscapeAs the Indian writer Amitav Gohsh pointed out in his essay The Great Derangement, Climate Change and the Unthinkable [1], the climate crisis is a crisis of culture and imagination. “The landscape is so dynamic, that its very changeability leads to innumerable moments of recognition” This requires “a passage from ignorance to knowledge”, as well as a prior awareness of our surroundings. This implies, for Gohsh, a knowledge of phenomena different from the discovery of something new [1]. The culture of urban space design is not excluded from modes of disorientation or indifference to climate change. This is despite the fact that climate change today appears more threatening than the production of risks and new vulnerabilities [2]
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