In the era of the Anthropocene the relationship between water, humans, and the non-human is the outcome of a long process of exploitation and control that has reduced water to a neutral and readily available resource, obscuring its ritual, processual, and mutable nature. The widespread conception that water is simply water, apparently tamed and eternally available, denies and ignores its role as a territorial agent and the processes that concern it, concealing its fundamental legacy and its condition as a living process. River ecosystems are exemplary in revealing anthropogenic action. The course of rivers, bent to productive, infrastructural, and settlement needs, returns regulated territories, spaces of negation where direct contact with water is reduced or mediated by infrastructure and embankments. The establishment of river parks and protected areas has been a response to exploitation and the progressive annihilation of the wetland ecosystems that characterize river courses. This research investigates the role of river parks today, adopting a perspective that moves beyond their management and administration, turning instead to the dimension of the sensitive, embodied experience of place. The paradigmatic context of observation coincides with the final stretch of the Adda River, extending southward through the territories of the River and Agricultural Park of Adda Sud, toward its confluence with the Po River. The interpretation of the landscape unfolds across multiple levels of reading within the vast protected area, traversing places where river identity and the bond with the river have weakened, and where collective memory has shifted and been partially disavowed. By considering the river ecosystem as a capillary void within a filled territory, is it possible to imagine new forms of care for the river and new ways of living with and for it, reinterpreting the roles of public and relational space as places of proximity and coexistence between communities and the environment? With a gaze directed toward contemporary criticalities and a speculative outlook on future possibilities, the aim is to adopt a new stance, to prefigure new river identities, and to outline a scenario in which the relationship with water may be reinterpreted.
Nell’era dell’Antropocene il rapporto tra acqua, umano e non-umano è l’esito di un lungo processo di sfruttamento e controllo, riducendola a risorsa neutra e disponibile, oscurandone la natura rituale, processuale e mutevole. La concezione diffusa per cui l’acqua è solo acqua, apparentemente domata ed eternamente disponibile nega e ignora il suo ruolo di agente territoriale e i processi che la riguardano, occulta la sua fondamentale eredità, il suo essere processo vivo. Gli ecosistemi fluviali sono esemplari nel disvelamento dell’azione antropica. Il corso dei fiumi, piegato a esigenze produttive, infrastrutturali e insediative restituisce territori regolati, spazi di negazione dove il contatto diretto con l’acqua è ridotto o mediato da infrastrutture e arginature. L’istituzione di parchi fluviali e aree protette è stata la risposta allo sfruttamento e il progressivo annientamento degli ecosistemi umidi che caratterizzano il corso dei fiumi. La ricerca indaga il ruolo dei parchi fluviali oggi, assumendo un punto di vista che si spinga al di là della loro gestione e amministrazione, volgendo lo sguardo alla dimensione dell’esperienza sensibile di un luogo. Il contesto paradigmatico di osservazione coincide con l’ultimo tratto del fiume Adda, spingendosi verso sud, nei territori del Parco fluviale e agricolo Adda Sud, verso la confluenza con il Po. L’interpretazione del paesaggio si muove per multipli livelli di lettura della vasta area tutelata, attraversando luoghi dove l’identità fluviale e il legame con il fiume sono andati affievolendosi, la memoria collettiva mutata e parzialmente disconosciuta. Considerando l’ecosistema fluviale come vuoto capillare di un territorio pieno, è possibile immaginare nuove forme di cura del fiume, del proprio vivere con e per esso, rileggendo i ruoli dello spazio pubblico e relazionale, luogo di prossimità e coesistenza tra comunità e ambiente? Con uno sguardo rivolto alle criticità contemporanee e speculando su possibilità future, il proposito è quello di assumere un nuovo portamento, prefigurare nuove identità fluviali e delineare uno scenario in cui il rapporto con l’acqua possa essere reinterpretato.
Abdua : uno scenario trasfigurativo nei luoghi del Parco Adda Sud
Rizzotti, Gianluca;Roldi, Riccardo
2024/2025
Abstract
In the era of the Anthropocene the relationship between water, humans, and the non-human is the outcome of a long process of exploitation and control that has reduced water to a neutral and readily available resource, obscuring its ritual, processual, and mutable nature. The widespread conception that water is simply water, apparently tamed and eternally available, denies and ignores its role as a territorial agent and the processes that concern it, concealing its fundamental legacy and its condition as a living process. River ecosystems are exemplary in revealing anthropogenic action. The course of rivers, bent to productive, infrastructural, and settlement needs, returns regulated territories, spaces of negation where direct contact with water is reduced or mediated by infrastructure and embankments. The establishment of river parks and protected areas has been a response to exploitation and the progressive annihilation of the wetland ecosystems that characterize river courses. This research investigates the role of river parks today, adopting a perspective that moves beyond their management and administration, turning instead to the dimension of the sensitive, embodied experience of place. The paradigmatic context of observation coincides with the final stretch of the Adda River, extending southward through the territories of the River and Agricultural Park of Adda Sud, toward its confluence with the Po River. The interpretation of the landscape unfolds across multiple levels of reading within the vast protected area, traversing places where river identity and the bond with the river have weakened, and where collective memory has shifted and been partially disavowed. By considering the river ecosystem as a capillary void within a filled territory, is it possible to imagine new forms of care for the river and new ways of living with and for it, reinterpreting the roles of public and relational space as places of proximity and coexistence between communities and the environment? With a gaze directed toward contemporary criticalities and a speculative outlook on future possibilities, the aim is to adopt a new stance, to prefigure new river identities, and to outline a scenario in which the relationship with water may be reinterpreted.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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