Los paisajes del declive. La concepción del paisaje en el contexto de la crisis ecológica global

Abstract

The global ecological crisis in its expression in the territory is generating new types of landscape that are related to the metaphor of the wound, the plunder, the erasure of natural references or the loss of memory and diversity. At the same time they create new aesthetic categories based on the perception of decline and loss of beauty. In order to define the «ethos» of these new types, we firstly reviewed models of landscape plenitude in a particular socio-cultural environment. Finally, the article designates the foundations for a conceptual and physical reconstruction of the landscape, starting from the principles of ecological rebalancing, diversification and sustainability.