Fragility as a condition: the landscape perspective

This chapter reflects on how conditions of territorial fragility can be recognised, interpreted and treated from the point of view of landscape and landscape design. The hypothesis we put forward is that landscape, in its cultural and operational meaning, represents a specific way of reconsidering territorial fragilities as a set of characterising qualities, and not as a negative condition to be overcome. If observed and interpreted through the lens of the landscape approach, fragilities suggest ways and spaces for design action capable of triggering and enhancing forms of active prevention and even territorial reinvigoration.