A Coastal Atlas: Prelude to a Territorial Vision
[2022-continous]

Research Forum
Giambattista Zaccariotto [AHO]
Samaneh Nickayin [WUR]
Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin [TUD]
Antonio Longo [PoliMi]

EURA RKV 2023
The form of the landscape is linked to the processes that shaped it, as well as set the physical conditions for movement, interaction and experience. In Iceland, aselsewhere, along the liminal edge of land and water, the reciprocity between humanactivity and the process of nature has built lived-upon landscapes, rural and urban, of great instrumental and symbolic values; as actual venues upon which social life,natural life, and economic life are mediated. In a time of rapid globalization, the correspondence between nature and culture isdifficult; the continuity and wholeness that characterized coastal landscapes of thepast changed in the fragmentation and estrangement of the present. A project of the description of the coastal landscapes of Iceland is of utmostrelevance to provide preparatory knowledge for formulating planning vision andprojects that guide resources towards a renewed reciprocity between social, natural and economic life at local, landscape and regional scales. A multilayered description of the elements, processes and relations specific tocoastal landscapes' situations, reveal how landscapes are seen, conceptualized, and valued. The description encompasses a range of representational forms (maps,diagrams, photography) and speculative designing research projects and criticaltexts. The description project is an initiative of a collective of architects, urbanists andlandscape architects affiliated with different institutions and with shared experiences of urban and territorial descriptions.