Papers by antonella tarpino
Fragile territories are those areas which, in the global re-design of space, escape the lexicon o... more Fragile territories are those areas which, in the global re-design of space, escape the lexicon of the negative geographies of Margins and Limits to candidate, on the contrary (and here lies the revolutionary character of the new vision of territories in motion) as privileged destinations of important processes of Return. Crucial, in the experience of return to fragile territories, is Memory, as main instrument to reconfigure, by the communities, the meaning of places ant their vocations. If therefore, using the territorialist vocabulary, every reterritorialisation is after all a memory operation, in turn memory itself can be truly defined as Territorial heritage: which every community necessarily sticks to in defining itself as such.
Memory is a gauntlet thrown down to the present – nowadays, unfortunately, increasingly holding a... more Memory is a gauntlet thrown down to the present – nowadays, unfortunately, increasingly holding as its own only horizon – in the name of what can be defined as a compatible future. looking for a coherence beyond the inevitable discontinuities and fractures. This could be achieved through the experience of Return: not a backwards motion but, first of all, a mental, cultural, experimental operation pointing forwards which it is urgent to get educated to. Return to the too many blanks of mountains et inlands where territories and places, mainly those in a state of misery and abandonment, challenge the very meaning of the words we use to describe them.
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Papers by antonella tarpino