The document analyses the landscape as a cultural, social and political construct, moving beyond the notion of space as a mere neutral container for human activities. Drawing on cultural anthropology, humanistic geography, visual studies, architecture and artistic practices, the landscape is interpreted as a dynamic and layered system in which memory, historical transformations, social uses of space and visions of the future are interwoven.
The concept of Historyscape concerns the traces of the past embedded in places, cities, architecture and images: the landscape thus becomes an archive and a palimpsest of historical, economic and social processes. Futurescape, on the other hand, opens up the design and utopian dimension, considering the landscape not only as what we inherit, but also as a space that can be imagined, transformed and inhabited differently. The COVID-19 pandemic has made the need to rethink contemporary urban models particularly evident.
Photography, cinema and public art do not merely represent the landscape, but help to shape our perception of it, challenging dominant narratives and generating new imaginaries. The landscape thus emerges as a field of tension between past and future, materiality and imagination, individual experience and collective representation.