Pepa Moran

This article is a collaborative work focused on the critical question of whether new types of contemporary public parks can emerge from designers’ engagement with dynamic processes. Rather than giving prominence to the exclusive use of stable patterns of landform and vegetation that largely have characterized past parks, we are interested in the lessons learned from practices trying to conflate theories of aesthetic experience with ecosystem dynamics in order to influence urban trends and climate change. Our compilation of texts highlights questions and recognizes scenarios of conflict and opportunity. We describe places and sites where a temporal dimension accentuates or dramatizes socio-material sensitivities, and where a dynamic condition generates more or less informal commons and wildlands, or in other words, emergent parks taking into consideration the limits of human control

Sessio tarda de la Jornada ON Landscape amb les intervencions a carrec d' Ana Coello, Arquitecta i paisatgista | Elena Albareda, Arquitecta, socia de Ciclica Arquitectura | Scob, Arquitectes i paisatgistes ( Sergi Carulla i Oscar Blasco) | Xavier Fabregas, Ing. Agronom i coordinador MBLAndArch | Javi Zaldivar, Arquitecte i paisatgista | Enric Batlle, Dr. Arquitecte i Director MBLandArch.

MBLandArch ha organitzat la Jornada ON Landscape el divendres 31 de maig a la Sala de Graus de l' ETSAB Es una Jornada oberta al public amb l'objectiu de generar una reflexio sobre les linies principals de treball desenvolupades actualmente des del projecte del Paisatge per professionals amb una reconeguda experiencia. La Jornada es divideix en dues parts, a cadascuna el ponent fa una presentacio propia del seu treball i tot seguit es realitza una Taula rodona amb la participacio dels conferenciants amb un moderador que coordina el debat.

_Intro The European metropolitan areas have entered into the categorization of major wildfire risk areas, due to the increasing vulnerability in a climate change context. The Metropolitan Area of Barcelona has become an urban-forest system of 4.5 million people in direct contact with 3 Natural Parks and where a range of international infrastructures are located and converge. In a potential wildfire situation (5th generation wild fire), the collapse of the emergency system is almost assured, in addition to the enormous effect on the economic system from the zero point. In terms of natural hazards emergency, it is considered as global emergency because a wildfire would trigger all kinds of emergencies. following the principle of cultural action of fire (1st people,2nd goods and 3rd forest), the response to minimize damage would not be able to attend strategically wildfire itself. The international community on wildfire management recognizes the incapacity to resolve and deal with the problem strictly from the field of emergencies. Moreover, it demands the urgent need to establish ways of collaboration and involvement of professionals from other disciplines. We cannot deal with these issues thinking that we are facing a strictly ecological, social or economic problem: it is a subject of landscape in its full complexity. This work is the result of a transdisciplinary collaboration between the Catalonian wildfire community (GRAF+ Fundació Pau Costa+ CTFC) and the Master of Landscape architecture (MAP) of the Politechnical University of Barcelona. During the last editions, it has been developed a landscape architecture methodology about how to introduce wildfire risk consideration into landscape planning in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona. According to M.E.Korstranje, the risk is perceived when it is prefigured: "A lot of sociologists have conceived the construction risk as a culture (...) There is no risk outside of language and the linguistic code. No one can avoid what you cannot prefigured in the moment happens that risk is not a risk but an accomplished opponent. Any risk is at a future time. "(Korstanje, M.E., 2014) Wildfire cartography has the objective to convey the linguistic code of risk through representation, and make it visible, entering into a purposeful and informative debate that allows us to take decisions. The main objective of this methodology is to introduce wildfires problematic intro landscape project to reduce vulnerability and preserve landscape values, enhancing the capacity of response towards wildfire disturbance. For this purpose, we need to incorporate the dynamic condition of the landscape, characterized by cycles of transformation and intrinsic disturbance into the planning and decision-making tools and a transformative perspective that embrace change on different scales.