OILANDSCAPES. Agro-energy parks to create social inclusion in Adriatic-Ionian oil meshes

The paper explores the role of oil infrastructures (upstream, midstream, downstream) in the light of the imminent territorial restructuring due to the Third Industrial Revolution. New socio-economic and energetic dynamics are going to reshape the Second Industrial Revolution's landscapes. It will be necessary to overcome the common vision of oil infrastructures as punctual elements which scatter the territories, so as to recognize their potential as “oil meshes” spread over vast territories. This will contribute to define innovative local development scenarios, integrating socio-ecological dimensions to ancient oil infrastructures (OILANDSCAPES). The paper proposes “Agro-energy parks” as a possible model to reconvert oil meshes through multi-scalar design tools (territorial/landscape/urban/architectural) aiming to couple renewable energies’ production processes to social inclusion.