In punta di piedi nei paesaggi del torrente Pesa

The contribution presents some reflections that have emerged during didactic and design experiment aimed at the realisation of the multifunctional agri-environmental river park of the Pesa river landscapes as envisaged in Strategy 2 of Pesa River Contract. The contribution is based on a game of alternating opposites such as, for example, the cross-reference between provocative approaches that deny the existence of the watercourse (Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha) and those who claim it as a physical and concrete presence (Georges Descombes); between soil and water; between regimes of scarcity and excess of the water resource; but also between theory and project; between scientific knowledge and direct interpretation in the field. An alternation that intends neither to ‘confuse the cards’, nor even less to deny one or the other, but rather to highlight that ecotonal band, to stay on the subject, in which the design process begins and find its path.