παλίμψηστος < palimpsestos, ‘again’ + ‘scrape’
παλίμψηστος < palimpsestos, ‘again’ + ‘scrape’
Creative Drivers for Sustainable
Living Heritage Landscapes
Creative Drivers for Sustainable
Living Heritage Landscapes
PALIMPSEST focuses on regenerating the lost sustainability wisdom in heritage landscapes through co-creation with creative actors, technical stakeholders and civic society. Architecture, design and art practices dialogue with place-specific needs and broad systemic challenges to imagine new scenarios and experiment with innovative practices connecting human actions, landscape heritage and sustainability objectives. To experiment and envision novel landscape scenarios, PALIMPSEST focuses on three pilot landscapes with diverse cultural identities and environmental problems.
LANDSCAPE PILOTS
PALIMPSEST’s Story
Delve into PALIMPSEST’s journey: A story of culture, creativity, co-creation and urban transformation
LATEST NEWS
New Video: Discover PALIMPSEST’s Journey Through Culture, Creativity, Co-creation and Urban Transformation
PALIMPSEST was not only a research project, but a journey shaped by animated dialogues, intense experimentation, and a rich collective learning process. Through continuous moments of 'creative collisions' among [...]
The legacy of PALIMPSEST continues through outstanding initiatives such as TerraRara, implemented in Varese (IT) in 2025–2026
Terra Rara is an environmental art and sustainability project in Varese that transforms small WEEE (Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment) - RAEE in italian, collected from citizens into [...]
IN MEMORY OF
Salvatore Iaconesi
Consortium
