Landscapes of repentance and of compensation

Too many times, lately, we heard the mantra "crisis as an opportunity". We are some how adapting to a state of gradual decay looking for arguments that could mitigate the sense of loss. Even with regard to the landscape and its abandonment there are signs that indicate new opportunities; Clement shows a new and innovative way: the violent anthropization desists to let its signs to be reabsorbed and included in a natural re-appropriation of what subtracted. We are forcing the hand, but in this strategy there is an extraordinary moral tension: a sort of rational ability to recognize, in the domestication imposed on nature, a kind of injustice, of undue acquisition. In this abstract we push a bit over, that is to consider an operational disregarded possibility. The thesis is about new skills to compose with elements of waste, using discarded materials, and without introducing new quantities or artificial presences. These practices have been extensively tested by art, seldom by architecture: artists, thanks to their freedom, can cross in advance the spirit of time (zeitgeist) and showed clearly the possibility of producing beauty by means of left over and refused materials, that is beautifying and redeeming the dull neglected. Nevertheless we keep on proposing new buildings and huge infrastructure indifferently overlapping natural pre-existing layouts. Hopefully the crisis compels us to a moratorium: to look with greater awareness to the "ruins" we are leaving behind, to the many and various places of abandonment. These materials, in a time when nothing can be left over, require for reparation, not just recycling, but a careful and respectful re-editing able to redeem the marginal carelessness.