Vol 21, No 1 (2023): Paradoxes of water

Issue Description

This issue of Ri-Vista reflects on the inseparable link between forms of water and landscapes and on the meanings that this relation assumes in the design, both when it is explicit or implicit. It investigates the paradoxes of water and analyses the different attitudes, both on conceptual and technical levels.
Moving from the different interpretative points of view hosted in this issue, we have chosen to present in this editorial two interrelated and complementary reflections about the opposite effects generated by increasingly recurrent climatic phenomena.
The different contributions present a dialectic of opposites, often insufficiently investigated and sometimes inevitably ambiguous, which involves a continuous change of perspective in the reader.
Following this "fluid" path, we met floods and storms as much as the drying up of the countryside and growing droughts. But these are the paradoxes of water and we think that today landscape design expresses entirely this duality.
With this issue of Ri-Vista we collected experiences, projects and reflections that illustrate the propulsive role of water in the construction of contemporaneity. It is divided into 4 sections called: Narratives; Water territories, identity and contexts; Landscapes for water; Waters for living.
They present the different strategies we can use in the management of water and how they become central, even when these are complementary to the different project aims.

Edited by Fabio Di Carlo and Carlo Peraboni with the collaboration of Carmen Angelillo, Cristina Imbroglini, Anna Lei, Ludovica Marinaro, Federica Morgia, Paolo Picchi, Emma Salizzoni, Daniele Stefàno.

Cover Image: “More London”, Londra 2010. © Fabio Di Carlo.

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Table of Contents

Editorial (Current series)

Paradossi dell’acqua. Un dialogo tra opposti
Fabio Di Carlo, Carlo Peraboni
7-27
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-15360
Se tutto ciò ha un senso
Fabio Di Carlo; Franco Zagari
28-31
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-15381

Narrazioni

River-phone conversations
Sara Gangemi, Antonio Rovaldi
66-79
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-14147
Estetica dell’acqua e del paesaggio nel rinnovamento della tradizione cinese
Giovanni Gamberi
80-93
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-14124

Territori dell'acqua, identità e contesti

Il paesaggio è anfibio. Per un nuovo immaginario idrologico
Annalisa Metta
96-109
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-14187
Acqua da coltivare. Risorsa, strumento e rito dell’abitare il paesaggio mediterraneo
Adriano Dessì, Francesco Marras
110-123
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-14138
Waterscape in Hjari Veraldar The 'Last Habitable Edge of the Earth'
Samaneh Sadat Nickayin
124-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-14179

Paesaggi per l'acqua

Concetti e strategie progettuali per ripensare il funzionamento di un comprensorio irriguo di derivazione appenninica
Luca Filippi
172-185
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-14109
Paesaggi delle bonifiche. Formazione e trasformazione del bacino fluviale del Tronto
Luigi Coccia
186-203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-14122
Trasversalità dimenticate. Strategie di progetto per le valli del Misa e del Nevola
Alessandro Gabbianelli
204-217
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-14220
Landscapes of drought. Future scenarios between agriculture and land aptitudes
Gianni Lobosco, Lorenzo Tinti, Beatrice Magagnoli
218-237
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-14112

Acqua per l'abitare

Forme d’acqua e codici dell’abitare: Il ruolo dell’acqua nella costruzione dei comportamenti di riscatto sociale ed ambientale degli abitanti di Palermo
Maria Livia Olivetti
240-251
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-14132
Il respiro dell'acqua ad Ho Chi Minh city
Matteo Aimini
252-270
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-14131
The regeneration of watercourses within urbanized areas. Some considerations about relevance, strategies, and design tools
Paola Sabbion
272-288
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-14139
Aguapuntura: a water-sensitive approach to revitalize informal settlements in the city of Asunción, Paraguay
Luca Rossignoli, Sara Favargiotti, Alessandra Marzadri
290-303
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-14123

Articles - Open section (Current series)

Il ‘senso’ del paesaggio in Gianfranco Di Pietro
Mariella Zoppi
306-316
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-14762

News

Esprimere le energie dei paesaggi
Gabriele Paolinelli
320-327
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-14867
Progettare l’irrigazione degli spazi verdi
Andrea Meli
328-333
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-15089
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