Annali storici di Principato Citra, A. 6, n. 2.2 (2008)

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Resti che ritornano testi: il ruolo della memoria in una possibile risemantizzazione di luoghi.

Nowadays, after decades of countryside and agricultural soils abandonment, we are facing more and more some "re-functionalizing" choices. But they too often anticipate a radical loss of sense not followed by a recovery of memory and local identities.In other words, rural architecture and landscape texts are systematically replaced by paralyzing "museifications", accompanied with an idea of "preservation" (with more or less "locked" parks and natural reserves); or by service/industrial aims, or, finally, by tourist based re-interpretations with mass consumerism intentions. Does a 'fourth way' exist which is able to offer a new possibility of meaning to these kinds of territorial texts, without mortifying their memory nor relegating them to a silent role or to "outdated" attitude? In this perspective of a new kind of possible recuperation, the role of Semiotics could consist in finding out emotional and cognitive valorizations of spatial articulation of sense, as well as vectorial concretions; where policy and architecture could be reciprocally involved towards planning and managing of the territory. In this way the memory of what is left as a mark on the territory of a pre-existent order (already disappeared or disappearing) could offer suggestions to political debates about planning. In this manner a radical change of the study perspective could be achieved; for instance, manufactures should be assumed not merely as precipitates of ideologies and political strategies but in fact as expressive, material and concrete rests (concretions...) able to activate semiotic processes of recognizing identities and possibilities along with the opening of new meanings

Il viaggio come discorso. Etnosemiotiche degli spazi

Can the travel experience, to the eyes of a semiotician, make him reflect on the alleged capability of verbal language to give everything a form, and on the crucial role that, on the contrary, spatial languages often play, as possible pass keys for any traveller who, not sharing the local language, finds himself plunged into a meaningful space to be explored? A meaningful space is also, and above all, thick with a sense inscribed in itself by the semiotic practices that establish it such as it is, and that, in their turn, deliver it to the traveller who is able to read it and wants to interpret it by raising the game of sense which originally brought it into the world