*It's where the Gothic High-Tech landscale professionals meet to discuss re-seeding the empty lots of derelict squelettes! And of course they're European.
http://www.eclas.org/eclas-conference-details.php?mode=next
Landscape and Ruins - Planning and design for the regeneration of derelict places
Conference Details: Date: 23-09-2009, Genova, Italy
"First Announcement and Call for Abstracts:
"Ruins have special meaning in relation to the landscape and the garden: the sense of loss, of harmony broken, and, at the same time, the hope of future rebirth.
"Landscape in ruin should be not only archaeological sites or traces of old gardens and sites, but places destroyed by catastrophic events – earthquakes, hurricanes, floods – or by war. Ordinary landscapes like post-industrial areas, abandoned railways areas, contaminated peri-urban and agricultural landscape, with problems of rejection and disorder.
"The abandoned places in their several meanings - from the classical ruins of Villa Adriana to faux-ruin gardens created in the English parks, to the ruins of the World War and to more recent ruins ofEuropean areas involved in post-conflict reconstruction process - (C. Woodward, In ruins, 2002). The non-places - the ambivalent spaces that do not hold enough significance to be regarded as "places” - (M. Augé Non-Lieux, Introduction à une anthropologie de la surmodernité, 1992) are a peculiar aspect of contemporary landscape.
"The landscape in ruin can have very fast degradation or very slow transformation.
"In the processes of evolution/devolution landscapes can have various potentialities from the
ecological, social and cultural point of view. They are the ‘Third Landscape’, and they will become the landscapes of the future. (((You heard it here first, ladies and gentlemen. Time to take your geolocative "Third Screen" smartphone out to the junkspace "Third Landscape.")))
"The architecture planning, design and management has the social responsibility to recapture landscapes which are in ruin for different reasons."
Format for abstracts and papers
http://www.arch.unige.it/eve/convegni/08_09/eclas/abs_pap.pdf
Format for poster
http://www.arch.unige.it/eve/convegni/08_09/eclas/poster.pdf
