The New Domestic Landscape of Italy:
Reconnecting with Domestic Rituals Through Transforming Abandoned Rural Italian Villages
Like many countries, Italy has seen the loss of population in rural areas due to the attraction of bigger cities, yet city dwellers are more likely to be disconnected between the production and consumption/usage of food, products, and energies that are closely related to our lives. How do we reconnect with the production of these things and these abandoned landscapes? If you could imagine a country as your living room, the farmland regions are the kitchens, industrial regions are the work spaces, homes and resting places are the bedrooms, and power-plants and water cleaning facilities are the energy that keeps the house running. Since we perform these “domestic rituals” of cooking, working, washing, and sleeping daily, we could, perhaps, perform them in a larger-scale, where the domestic landscape can be shaped across different regions.