Ten bridges at La Maddalena. Mediterranean metaphors in the post-environmental age

The article comments on the experience of a workshop held in the Mediterranean archipelago of La Maddalena. The workshop focused on the regeneration of the area after the project failure of an exclusive Yacht Club which was built in response to a formerly abandoned Arsenale. The theme is paradigmatically used to define questions, rather than solutions, on the current environmental issue by employing a working methodology based on story telling and metaphors as productive fictional devices of creative criticism and products of an aesthetic approach in contrast to scientific truth and ‘experts’. Final reflections are devoted to natural reserves as heterotopias sacrificed in the name of environmental protection and with an invitation for a new ecology of the mind with the awareness that the disaster is already in place.