Mmag.iur.phil. Evelyn Oberleiter, BA Helene Thierig (Terra Institute) Arch. Andreas Kipar, Dipl.-Ing. Andrea Balestrini, MLAB Stella-Zoë Schmidtler, M. Sc. Chiara Linda Maria Galimberti (LAND Italia Srl) 2022
The white paper provides a framework that individual communities, regions or municipalities can use to identify, analyze and implement opportunities in their specific landscapes. At the same time, this whitepaper provides information on the compatibility of region-specific development strategies and European financing and funding opportunities. It offers methods for dialogues between politics, administration, economy and last but not least the population in order to sensitize them for future topics and to jointly develop a new understanding for their landscape. In this way, all actors of a region should become part of the ecological-regional transition and shape the future of their living space in cooperation.
Stella-Zoë Schmidtler. LAND Magazine 2021
Landscape architecture, the “New European Bauhaus”, the role of public space and the power of bold ambitions – experiences of a young landscape architect.
Andreas Kipar, Stella-Zoë Schmidtler. 2021
Abstract: We are living in the green transition which aims to reach ambitious sustainable development goals in the next decades. The design of open spaces in this transition requires ethic, aesthetic, and collective intelligence. Nature is in continuous evolution; thus, we need to apply such processual and regenerative strategies to our projects and their environment to adapt both urban structure and social behaviors for the future. Contemporary challenges of society and economy as well as the climate emergency are consequences of our past treatment of nature. Urban heating, flooding, air pollution and obsolete business segments are being confronted by a policy of local recreation, new distribution of public space and nature-based solutions and reveal that nature can solve our self-made problems. As the landscape is marked by our story, our footprint, it is on a sharing society to cultivate our heritage. The mental shift from ruling nature to working closely together with it is necessary to reposition the relation of human and nature and to develop a balanced and long-lasting coexistence. The financial tools to realize this new balance are already available and making this new approach tangible to people is important to cultivate identity, society, and relation.
Jenet, A., Nik, S., Mian L., Schmidtler, S.Z., Annunziato, A, Marin-Ferrer, A.S., Ganesh, A., Taucer, F. et.al. Brussels: European Commission 2021
Scoping exercise on potential standards gaps carried out among JRC scientists. Putting Science into Standards (PSIS)
Landscape as a Processual and Regenerative Project for Public Space
Andreas Kipar, Stella-Zoë Schmidtler, Landschaft und Infrastrukturen Bozen, Italy 2020
Abstract: Integrating infrastructure into the landscape today requires a whole new culture of building and planning. Land consumption, ecosystem fragmentation, biodiversity loss and climate change are shaping the urban agenda and excluding our cities and territories from sustainable development into the future. On the one hand, public finances are becoming increasingly scarce; on the other hand, our society needs ever faster and more efficient connections.The debate that has been going on within the European Landscape Convention for more than ten years clearly shows the strong need for a cultural reinvention of the concept of landscape. Landscape is no longer seen as a passive object of social utility, but as a foundation of European natural and cultural heritage and as a contribution to the formation of local cultures.
M.P. Artiagoitia, K.P. López, V. Piliego, S.Z. Schmidtler. Changing Cities IV. Chania, Greece 2019
Abstract: Forgotten values of landscape create a historical deposit of interactions between inhabitants and their territory. An uncountable number of landscapes with collective identity are abandoned and mark possibilities for new interpretations of our surroundings in times of crisis. The consumption of territories as natural icons has provoked difficult consequences in the management of nature. The former and actual behavior of treating the landscape generated a littoral crisis in the Mediterranean and this investigation is focusing the coast of Rimini, Italy. Those territories were constantly modifícated by humans for productive systems like the agriculture. In addition to that, mass tourism, which is not aware of its ecological and social scope, left behind the artificial and unhealthy landscape of Rimini’s coast. This investigation is suggesting a second coast for Rimini; decongesting the first coastline with its ecological deficit and distributing the economic income due to tourism over the whole amplitude of the littoral. This second coast is located all over the region of Rimini and Emilia-Romagna, remains of the ancient cultivation of hemp for textiles, water basins called maceri. Combining those elements with a new structure in the territory to protect the most sensitive ecosystems can give identity and touristic value to this heritage, also connecting the city and the littoral. The present agricultural landscape could create a constellation of small elements which represent cultural awareness, the restoration of the territorial organization and the possibility to empower the biodiversity and the productive landscape.
K.P. López, V. Piliego, S. Schmidtler, M. García, M. Giobando. Tirana Architecture Week 2018. Tirana, Albania 2018
Abstract: Wildland fires, part of the cycle of the forest ecosystem, create social and ecological issues that must be considered seriously, especially now that climate change is extending the arid periods of the year, increasing the risk of major burnable situation. The wildfire that happened on October 17th of 2017 in Vigo, in the Galician Region of Spain, burnt thousands of acres of land and damaged villages located close to the forest, even killing four people next to Chandebrito. In this situation, due to the structure of the Galician forest, the current forest management is difficult to blame: the Galician forest is composed by municipal woods and small private plots (c.a. 2ha) that don’t allow easy control of the privately-owned land. Through the case study of the forest of Monte Alba, Vigo, this paper explores the possibility for ecosystems and social systems not only to be resilient, but also to reduce the serious risk of dangerous environmental disasters. Villages in the forest should find a way to coexist in a productive way for the both systems – natural and human. Thanks to the strategic analysis introduced by the GRAF firefighter in Catalunya, the specific study of the forest ecosystem and the recognition of the valuable and strategic points of the area, it was possible to define where to intervene for preventing fire to burn another village. The landowners need to be involved in the management of the forest by generating a big scale “Ecotone” through villages and nature: a buffer area that could be a support for multiple activities, responding to the need of fire protection, while simultaneously generating social-ecological and cultural services and becoming the source for raw material and renewable resources.
Maria de Lluch Salas, Stella-Zoë Schmidtler. 2017
Abstract: There are several ways to understand the area around the Bunkers of Barcelona. For some people it might be a meeting point, an investment, a home or a place to rest. Especially the fast changing city and demographic structures versus the average age of visitors bring diversity and potential for conflicts.
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