LONG-TIME RURAL LANDSCAPES: NEW MODELS FOR SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT PROJECT

The concept of "long-time", as developed by human geography, could try to define better the features and outcomes of an entity such as the rural landscape, a complex and living system, in continuous modification and adaptation. The European policies identify rural landscape as a fundamental testing ground for advanced practices of sustainability. A ground provider of new common goods to the whole society, a place of new multi-functionality, where good architecture and beautiful landscape combine themselves with high-quality food, with ecological management of the land, with hospitality, identity, and culture. In this sense, the rural landscape becomes "an open work", in continuous evolution, in which local and natural materials are still the substrates of historical identities, but at the same time, they also lend themselves toward a resilient innovation, capable of approaching at the end of the cycle of consumption and life of manufactured goods and to propose reversible models with low or zero consumption of soil. The first results of the shared research for the new Landscape Plan of internal Sardinia offer in this sense perspectives that probably deserve to be presented and discussed.