ABSTRACT
Move 1: the first move was to qualify and identify the physical materials that outline the territory of the waters. To name these materials, frequently a relic, requires recalling a history of marsh drainage and territorial transformations that have overlapped in time, indicating layers of successive (often contradictory) approaches and rationalities, through which contemporary oppositions and conflicts are revealed. Move 2: in second place, we attempted to recognise the various processes during which different forms of rationalities have been posited in the form of concrete infrastructure and objects. Today, this transformation and modernisation process appears extraordinarily accelerated and requires the development of new hypotheses and scenarios. Move 3: in third place, this research has led us to re-think the concept of void space, its functions and symbolic role. The landscape of waters has for centuries been one of the principal infrastructures of the Veneto region and it can also be the starting point for a reflection on the sense and forms of open, public and collective space in a territory of individualised dispersion. Move 4: the project of isotropy. The utopia of an isotropic territory thrives in parts of this area, as it often does in other territories of dispersion. Although incomplete, such grand vision and its consequences in the designs and practices for space are perhaps today the only ones capable of reconstructing an informed inside look and hypothesis,
combined to confer new sense and meaning to the construction of the contemporary territory. Move 5: this research ultimately aims to contribute in the elaboration of new forms of modernity and new alliances between research and regards, among different fields of knowledge.
