The ongoing green transition is configuring energy landscapes through the indifferent overwriting of territories; renewable energies have produced a sudden and strong transformation of the landscape due to their positioning in areas with visual exposure and their considerable symbolic significance.
Relating energy and landscape, therefore, means considering the complexities of a reaction between different identities and values. This is impossible to manage in using a mechanical and consequential method because performance issues are measured against the cultural, identity, and emotional values of a place. The aim of the GLAS’ research is to involves ecology, society, nature, and culture. Methodologically, the approach is reversed: rather than designing a project for the correct installation of renewable energies, the project for the energy plant is understood as new contemporary landscape.

Fabio Manfredi

Landscape Observatory of Catalonia