PART 3. Landscape Design and Time

The making of the landscape takes place over a long period of time, where time is considered as the agent of an open and adaptive form, capable of assuming the processes that qualify the landscape. The project inevitably articulates its intervention through different scales of action that activate multiple relationships and an integrated vision. In this case, the capacity of the project is to go beyond a one-dimensional vision of territories to formulate possible relationships between innovation and tradition, to implant and cultivate integrated visions, to nurture imaginaries. The landscape project can be expressed through an active infrastructure capable of caring for places, adapting to and producing sustainable realities, enhancing resources and productive systems, and promoting coordinated actions between land transformation interventions, regardless of administrative boundaries. It is so an open project that does not aim at the completion of an arrangement, but at the creation of an articulated system, capable of being inclusive and allowing a progressive adaptation to changing conditions. 
Making landscape is here intended in the sense of its production and its continuous transformation depending on a project, that is to say on a complex prefiguration of places, resources, spaces, nature, constructions, physical and cultural relationships, elaborated by design experts able to integrate competences on the basis of a shared vision of the future, from which the actions, processes and forms of the territory can derive their sense.