What the Ground Says

Ground, as a body incised by natural and human actions (European Landscape Convention), carries “stories”, going beyond quantitative values. As in a text, it holds the keys to understand what it covers or hides. In its thickness, it shelters “implicit projects”. Understanding its complexity requires...

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Published in:Sustainability Vol. 13; no. 23; p. 13420
Main Author: Occhiuto, Rita
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.12.2021
MDPI
Subjects:
Art & art history
Art & histoire de l’art
Arts & humanities
Arts & sciences humaines
Case studies
Cultural heritage
Cultural landscape
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Geography, Planning and Development
Imageability
Intangible values
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Open project
Perception
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Sustainability
UBH
ISSN:2071-1050, 2071-1050
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Summary:Ground, as a body incised by natural and human actions (European Landscape Convention), carries “stories”, going beyond quantitative values. As in a text, it holds the keys to understand what it covers or hides. In its thickness, it shelters “implicit projects”. Understanding its complexity requires a physical and perceptual commitment, challenging the body in space: dimensions gradually forgotten by Environmental Sciences. As a “threshold” between visible and invisible, Underground-Built-Heritage represents the reverse of the emerged world: hollow space, both generator and mirror of open space (cities, landscapes). The focus is on physical and mental relationships between these two worlds. Past and present relationships emerge, allowing hypotheses to reconstitute collective memories, practices, knowledge, and values, which serve territorial development. The “Three Countries Park” is a place for cross-border experimentation to test how UBH can rebuild common links for fragmented environments. The cavities of a geo-park (planned) and the tangles of underground mining architecture are the fragments of a vocabulary whose meaning communities have to relearn. Built undergrounds will, thus, emerge from common stories that revive the imagination of populations who have lost all notion of belonging to a place. UBH will become a vector of new territorial coherence linking the physical and mental perceptions of people.
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scopus-id:2-s2.0-85120804706
ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su132313420