Territórios Marginais. A ilha das Flores

• Autor(a) principal: Jacopo Gennari Feslikenian
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/80340
• topic: Artes; Arts

This dissertation aims to reflect on the condition of low intensity territories, as opposed to places characterized by high intensity urban logics. Marginal Territories is the term chosen to describe the isolated condition depicted in this case study about Flores Island, in the Azores archipelago. The main goal is to identify the starting points for the implementation of long term strategies. The study is based on a survey of the present potentialities and opportunities, on a necessarily deep and multidisciplinary study of the dynamics which define and structure the micro insular context and its oceanic correlations, along with an analysis and reflection on the current planning practices and their operative solutions. Two devices, Territory and Landscape, have been used to allow articulated interpretations, on different levels, of the case study. The graphic representation and its consequent image production are used as tools of analysis/acknowledgment/ approach relating to the specific territory. Its integration in the planning process as a mechanism of divulgation and perception that allows/supports/sustains the construction of shared strategies, is also considered relevant. Flores is characterized by its exceptional landscape values and also by the strong spirit of identity of its population, that guarantees the survival of traditions related to the life in the rural dimension, structuring matrix of this territory. The 2009 acknowledgment of Flores as Unesco Biosphere Reserve reinforces a condition which is strongly related to its "recent" story of human occupation: the Laboratory-Island condition. These mergings are opportunities towards the definition of innovating strategies, focusing the search of a coexistence and a balance between human presence, human activities and the environment.