Territori arcaici. L'Amendolea scomposta

The study project Landscape in_Progress focuses on the contemporary city pursuant to the establishment of the administrative district Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria. So far the district only has legal status, therefore it is important to review the area in question from a more mobile viewpoint in order to elaborate both an overall and detailed approach capable of identifying and itemising the values and images of a complex, heterogeneous territory. Rather than merely providing statistics and quantitative data about the territory, the study illustrates the search for local values with a view to creating a new urban scenario. Based on the above premises, the study gathered data regarding contents, strategies and design proposals to achieve two specific goals: to develop a proposal/project involving the creation of a Green Corridor, a physical and morphological infrastructure capable of uniting and identifying (in a sort of natural archaeology) the very diverse territories of the Metropolitan City; to use six landscapes as a basis to elaborate an urban vision. The study group adopted a very original, in-depth and interdisciplinary approach, considered as the best possible way in which to gather data relating to the project. Multiple actors – architects, landscape architects, agronomists, photographers, artists and scholars - were involved in the exploration/discovery of this metropolitan area; their collated findings focus on an area that tends to be structured like a city, obviously in the contemporary, broader sense of the word now increasingly associated with a more extensive, comprehensive and heterogeneous approach.