DENTRO IL PARADOSSO COSTIERO. Un approccio transdisciplinare per un paesaggio instabile
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description: The Ph.D. thesis starts from the assumption of recognizing in the coastal landscape a distinctive condition with respect to other forms of landscapes, declining it semantically by adopting the adjectival noun "Coastalness", and identifying it in the characters of an unstable landscape. It aims to investigate its semantic and strategic significance, to develop an epistemological and methodological approach useful for elaborating new critical directions propaedeutic to the project. The focus lays on the extreme complexity and dynamism of the littoral, the only place on earth where oceanic, terrestrial, and atmospheric processes interact simultaneously, in a space with shifting and permeable boundaries, subject to continuous variations of moving flows that shift from the global to the local scale, and on which the effects of the climate crisis are significantly more visible and intense than on other territories. Although since the 1960s international policy agendas have developed specific tools for guiding administrative processes and planning strategies, and for prompting public debate and coastal communities' participation, the accelerating alteration of the coastal landscape on a global scale reveals their insufficient impact. At the same time, scientific research, often isolated within its academic and disciplinary boundaries, shows that it still has a marginal influence on policymakers and limited effectiveness in effecting widespread awareness. Studying, designing, and managing through linear tools and static approaches the coast as a landscape, which is subject to wicked problems and whose intrinsic character is instability, is therefore configured as a coastal paradox. In an era of profound and rapid changes dominated by anthropocentrism, it is, therefore, necessary to evolve traditional analytical, programmatic, and design methodologies by developing flexible, experimental, immersive, and evolutionary approaches capable of transcending their disciplinary bound…
abstract: The Ph.D. thesis starts from the assumption of recognizing in the coastal landscape a distinctive condition with respect to other forms of landscapes, declining it semantically by adopting the adjectival noun "Coastalness", and identifying it in the characters of an unstable landscape. It aims to investigate its semantic and strategic significance, to develop an epistemological and methodological approach useful for elaborating new critical directions propaedeutic to the project. The focus lays on the extreme complexity and dynamism of the littoral, the only place on earth where oceanic, terrestrial, and atmospheric processes interact simultaneously, in a space with shifting and permeable boundaries, subject to continuous variations of moving flows that shift from the global to the local scale, and on which the effects of the climate crisis are significantly more visible and intense than on other territories. Although since the 1960s international policy agendas have developed specific tools for guiding administrative processes and planning strategies, and for prompting public debate and coastal communities' participation, the accelerating alteration of the coastal landscape on a global scale reveals their insufficient impact. At the same time, scientific research, often isolated within its academic and disciplinary boundaries, shows that it still has a marginal influence on policymakers and limited effectiveness in effecting widespread awareness. Studying, designing, and managing through linear tools and static approaches the coast as a landscape, which is subject to wicked problems and whose intrinsic character is instability, is therefore configured as a coastal paradox. In an era of profound and rapid changes dominated by anthropocentrism, it is, therefore, necessary to evolve traditional analytical, programmatic, and design methodologies by developing flexible, experimental, immersive, and evolutionary approaches capable of transcending their disciplinary bound…
author: USAI, MARIA PINA
language: ita
keywords: Settore ICAR/15 - Architettura del Paesaggio
date published: 2023-04-21T00:00:00+02:00
date modified: 2026-07-24T01:29:52Z
provider: Università di Cagliari
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: Università degli Studi di Cagliari

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