Not Yet Landscapes

The title of the contribution is Not-yet-Landscapes and it is meant to highlight some potential topics that are not yet, or very little, investigated by the landscape architecture discipline. By presenting academic experimentations concerning the development of datacentres, particle accelerators and satellite farming, the paper focuses on the so-called DATASPHERE showing how, under different perspectives, its related networks actually have a deep impact on the real world. Awareness and knowledge about their functioning are the first step to imagine a more integrated and sustainable development of the large infrastructure behind them. Although these systems are designed to perform specific tasks, the conflict with the territories they cross increases as they become more pervasive in our lives. By disclosing the physical footprint of data, the contribution depicts some strategies to ground a new type of collaboration between their infrastructural development and the landscape.