Cultivating the landscape dimension towards a new Landscape language?

Specifically considering the field of landscape architecture and the art of “making places,” the action of cultivating can be interpreted as the continuous taking care of places over time. In fact, the word cultivation also implicitly incorporates a chronological dimension in both its forms: evolutionary process (linear time) and seasonal cyclicity (circular time). Due to these aspects of continuity and evolution, the specific practices concerning cultivation (working the land, sowing and planting, pruning, watering, harvesting, in addition to the differences in crop care required by the various species) are necessarily guided by an overall strategic vision that is projective and experimental, and in this sense, strictly related to a planning/ design/project approach. Thus, a proactive and strategic vision generated by that “forward-looking” attitude recommended by the European Landscape Convention (Florence, 2020) appears essential to all urban and rural landscape processes of protection, management and planning in which projects and the care of (and for) living components, be they plant, animal, or human, require an ability to gaze into the future in order to cultivate its various unpredictable possibilities.