Tecnological Gaze: Digital Techniques of Landscape Representation

The landscape looks like a dynamic system, marked and shaped by natural forces and human actions. Given the complexity of this system, its perception and representation, oscillating between tangible and intangible values can’t longer remain anchored in a two-dimensional simplification, but must open his gaze to new descriptive models, implemented by technical-scientific data, in which the 3D component is preponderant and useful to the development of future scenarios. The landscape is analysed by means of state-of-the-art instruments, as well as scientific and experimental data, coupled with a critical sensitivity providing strategies for reading and interactive communication of the landscape. A recent landscape research led me to think about the possibility of using a set of digital data to implement the viewing of landscape in a similar manner as enjoying a museum or, generally speaking, a historical / art exhibition. The goal inspiring this research was the attempt to produce a virtual vision of landscape enhancing places including poorly accessible areas for visitors, by means of smartphone/tablet applications or installations providing the direct view of the territory in specific sensitive and geographically referenced points, coupled with a series of data, graphs, reconstructions and future scenarios to be shared by everybody.