Evolutionary Scenarios for the Design of Infrastructures in the Landscape/Scenari evolutivi per il progetto delle infrastrutture nel paesaggio

The role played by infrastructures in processes of constructing the landscape and, in particular, the methods of conceiving, designing,
realising and perceiving infrastructural works have become central issues in policies for the regeneration and development of systems of settlement.The construction of infrastructural works, at diverse scales, has consistently been posited as a cardinal moment in the organisation
and settlement of the landscape. Infrastructures tend to nurture the landscape’s reactivity to adverse conditions, contributing to the
configuration and reconfiguration of its assets, technologies and perception during various periods in history.
The realisation of systems of settlement based on low density and a moderated level of urbanisation thus constitutes the result of a slow process of transforming/’infrastructuralising’ a once natural habitat. The essay is based on the vision of central role of infrastructure to build a new symbiosis between agricultural-farming activities with the practices of managing and maintaining natural and urban heritage. A new technological opportunity to reconsider the concepts of territorial safety and resilience as incentives favouring innovative and mixed forms of inhabiting the countryside.