Green Change, Big Chance # New Rurality: Food | Tourism | Energy | Environment

The new multifunctional dimension of agriculture is transforming the rural landscape and the concept of rurality. The SOIL assumes a strategic role in the landscape as an active process. There are new life cycles for agriculture which increases the possibility of action from the production of material -(goods, timber, fber, materials for industrial) to ones intangible (landscape, biodiversity, safeguarding hydrogeological, maintenance of territory) and to the creation of services oriented to social welfare. There is the vocation for more traditional production of food and the innovative activities (power generation, natural fbers and polymers, rural and cultural tourism, social potential) that confgure polyhedral rurality which still has to be investigated for spatial and formal implications: Agriculture Food # Agriculture # rural and cultural tourism Agriculture # environment-energy These themes defne a new project of the landscape, in which the space of the campaign is perceived as a common good; the agricultural feld is a space enjoyed by all, it is multifunctional in which the fgure of the farmer is to act along with many other actors in a scene that belongs to everyone. In this new dimension, the landscape can become a rewarding factor for agriculture, reversing the dialectical relationship between urban space, suburban and agricultural land. This multi-functionality opens a new design that can be strategic if developed as spatial practices with alternative usage, characterized by a social mix, functional and formal, and a coexistence temporary / stability, compatible with the tiles of a mosaic and economically sustainable. This green change perspective offers the opportunity to shape new landscapes through an urbanenvironmental continuous pattern. Our team is carrying out research on the resilient regeneration of the old citrus felds and the new possibility of production and landscape of multifunctional agriculture in the Plain of Gioia Tauro in Calabria.