Strumenti di rappresentazione per la storia dei luoghi

National audienceThe present research roots in the solid methodological and disciplinary system of ancient topography, looking back to the latest expressions and practices of territorial environment-oriented planning.The dialogue between two disciplinary worlds with apparent communication difficulties (archaeology and planning), and two diametrically opposite positions regarding the development of territory (conservation and transformation), will be the aim of the work.Starting from objective parameters of territory reading (such as visibility, elevation, extension, usability, etc.), and combining them with more markedly sociological and anthropological ones (perception and affection of and for the places), a theoretical and practical contribution for the planning and the realization of an innovative representation apparatus (both cartographic and not) will be proposed, restoring the variations of the perception of historicity, considered inherent to the whole Landscape.An upstream deep reconsideration of some positions suffering from almost sclerotic fixity, usual in the praxis of predominantly object-oriented conservation, will be needed, orienting the study towards a new reading and interpretation of historical evidences (both visible, such as ruins, an agrarian structure or a road network, or invisible, such as toponymic fossils, oral traditions or suggestions) contributing to the modification of the Landscape, up to the present perceived “shape”.It isn’t a stratigraphic reading of territory, typical of so-called “landscape archaeology”, but an attempt to achieve a general reading of historical characters inevitably influencing our perception of the places and, consequently, of the Landscape.Essential starting point will be the traditional “Archaeological Map” (under construction in Italy by 1875 and still incomplete, despite many proposed and ongoing experimentations), enriched by those material elements that, up to the recent past, built, designed and transformed the places, overcoming traditional historiographical and legislative canons that place absolute chronological caesuras between the end of Antiquity and the passage to Middle and Contemporary Ages.Attention will be paid on “chronostructures” and “chronosystems” that have developed through the centuries, similar to living bodies lying on the ground that dying (as defunctionalized) inevitably have left their mortal remains, signs of their passage, as memory and track of their existence, often offering cannibalistic nourishing and sustenance to the bodies that have taken their place and whose succession give, today, a sense to that diachronic jumble that, filtered through the thick lenses of our look, can be called Landscape.Expected result will be a new model of representation of perceived variations of the character of historicity of the Landscape, not as census, cadastre or simple result of the territorial invariants, but as an instrument of help, support and direction to every study plan.The study area of the project is North-West Sardinia, retaining the option to experiment the method in extra-islander contexts, due to the eminently empiric character of the research