OILANDSCAPES. Strategie di conversione sistemica delle reti del petrolio nella regione della pianura padana nord-orientale

The relationship between energy and landscape is witnessing an epochal change because it is moving from a centralized production system to a distributed territorial one. From this point of view, the cathedrals of modernity for energy production of the second industrial revolution (Branzi, 2006) will see their territorial role completely compromised. In the light of the role of foffil fuels infrastructures in the definition of territorial and urban planning hierarchies and in view of the energetic transition foreshadowed by Rifkin's third industrial revolution (2011), this paper looks at the widespread physical connections of oil meshes as the real potential that an oil infrastructures' reconversion could share for the forthcoming territorial restructuring. Overcoming the notion of oil infrastructures and embracing the systemic vision of oil meshes, this paper wants to define innovative territorial development scenarios able to integrate socio-ecological realms into infrastructural design domain, thus outlining the new role of OILANDSCAPES. The research by design is the methodology chosen to investigate the oil mesh of the north-eastern Po Valley region, using mapping and scenario-building tools in order to imagine and evaluate spatial futures.