Loredana Ponticelli’s scientific contributions

L'articolo presenta un progetto di riorganizzazione di uno storico insediamento turistico d’alta quota posto sull’altipiano di Lavazè, il passo dolomitico che collega la Val di Fiemme con la Val d’Ega e Bolzano. Il progetto segue un modello di sviluppo sostenibile basato sui notevoli valori naturali dell’area (importanti aree umide incluse nella rete Natura 2000, il sito Dolomiti UNESCO, un lago alpino e la pecceta di Pinus Cembra L. più meridionale d’Europa) e su principi di pianificazione integrata (partecipazione e negoziazione, connectivity conservation, riordino delle infrastrutture, riqualificazione architettonica ed energetica degli edifici esistenti, sistemi di mobilità integrata).

Regeneration of an existing high altitude resort according to an innovative model, based on the remarkable natural values of the area (Natura 2000 sites, UNESCO sites, wetlands and the most southern pinewood of Pinus cembra L. of Europe), and sustainable development (conversion of existing buildings, use of renewable energy sources and integrated mobility systems).

The Dolomites are one of the most famous mountain landscapes in the world and in some areas the visitor levels are already at or over capacity.The method chosen for assessing critical points and the potential for the status of recreational use in the WHS is the carrying capability assessment (CCA). The main idea consists in evaluating the cultural landscape diversity not only as an entity to preserve but as an activity (as active elements) capable of intervening on the positioning of the bottom-line for defining effects. In this perspective the focus shifts from the “capacity” to the “ability” of the territories, interpreting them as active and not passive subjects of transformation. The term “carrying capability” would express this active perspective, considering the complex of aptitudes that allows a complex system as a serial site to interact with the evolutionary phenomena that involves itself.

This paper analyses the analogical relationships between linguistic and landscape structures typical of some Alpine areas inhabited by Rhaeto-Romanic language minorities using an interdisciplinary approach. Four relationship strategies are examined: to propose, nominate, delimit and geo-refer. The aim is to focus on the image of the territory imprinted in the local language as a factor of landscape production, and the interaction created between its inner and outer representations as a factor capable of influencing its development. The results: to provide another tool for interpreting the features of landscape diversity in Alpine spaces and to implement the Declaration on Population and Culture of the Alpine Convention.