Visualizing/Narrating/Mapping Landscape

In the western cultural tradition, the landscape is closely connected to the act of seeing, from painting to geographical representations, even to the literary narrative: from Petrarca onwards, sight, optical vision and visual imagination are combined at the base of writing as a revelation - acquisition of awareness, we would say today - of the landscape path. In the modern age, in the development of cultural dynamics connected to the landscape, converge “the history of the ego and the spatial gaze of the world that redraws and reshapes with the pen the steps and places seen on the map (geographical lato sensu)” (Bertone, 2000, p.132). Since its appearance, therefore, the idea of landscape can be traced back to the triad, which in current terms, corresponds to the sequence visualizing, narrating, representing. The contribution aims to address the interweaving of descriptive-interpretative relationships that see in ‘mapping’ a suitable tool for the phases of shared knowledge and vision, based on visualizing the values of the landscape.