Dissolvenze ed Assolvenze dell’imma- gine dinamica del paesaggio agrario

Fade-outs and Fade-ins of the Dynamic Image of Rural Landscape. Abrupt transitions from preindustrial to postmodern landscapes have occurred after the industrial revolution, with remarkable accelerations after World War II. However, besides revolutions and disasters, landscapes change physiologically and gradually as well, even in periods when economic and social systems seem stable. The concern for the protection of the form of landscape elements even when functions which generated and preserved them have ceased is quite recent. At the same time, it is nowadays broadly shared that studies in the fields of historic rural landscapes should not only be aimed to catalogue elements to be preserved, but also at the creation of a knowledge framework suitable to suggest criteria for the design of future identity rural landscapes. Therefore it proves useful to study if it is possible to transfer the fade-out/fade-in mechanisms into the rural landscape creation process, thus establishing uninhibited relationships between the past and the present, and overcoming space and time breaks, through methods and approaches for the analysis and design of rural landscape changes capable of addressing in an aware and well-balanced way the relationships between protection and contemporary design, loss (of historic elements) and introduction (of new values, functions, and forms).