Progettare paesaggi di nature tecnologicamente ibridate nell’era del digitale

Abstract

Digital transition has introduced dynamics of everyday cohabitation and interaction between the organic dimension of living beings and the inorganic diversity of ‘sentient’ technological objects, able to record and react to biological behaviors. It is a phenomenon whose impact on ways of observing and designing the landscape is yet to be largely explored.
The contribution reflects on the possibilities of using the computational capacity of digital technologies as allies for an open and adaptive project, capable of keeping together biological, cultural and social uniqueness and differences. To help reversing possible homologating impacts of globalisation, but also of digitalisation itself, if understood merely as a process of technical advance-ment pursuing optimisation logics, possible conceptual frameworks are proposed to imagine new relations with this technological otherness and to identify some trajectories useful to broaden the designer’s field of action.