OILANDSCAPES. Coupling ecological and social dimensions with oil infrastructure in Adriatic-Ionian region

The relationship between energy and landscape is witnessing an epochal change because the centralized production system is moving towards 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. and urban planning hierarchies and in view of the energetic transition foreshadowed by Rifkin’s third industrial revolution (2011), the research looks at the widespread physical connections of oil meshes as the real potential that an oil infrastructure’s reconversion could share for the forthcoming territorial restructuring. Overcoming the notion of oil infrastructure and embracing the systemic vision of oil meshes design domain, thus outlining the new role of OILANDSCAPES. Research by design is the methodology chosen to investigate the oil mesh of order to imagine and evaluate spatial futures.