ABSTRACT
The conception of a network is, in essence, strongly related to the ideas of continuity and accessibility. The first relates to flows of biodiversity, water or energy, contributing to the homeostasis of the networked ‘ecosystem’. The later, whether for public fruition, or for maintenance or just as means for circulation, provides meaning to the network. Landscapes, often overlooked as the background/basis for urban systems, unfold in intricate networks of natural systems whose continuity ought to be preserved for the sake of the good functioning of the metropolitan territories. The interview approaches the challenges in overcoming barriers to the continuity and accessibility of metropolitan landscapes (being physical, administrative, or socio-economic ones), by looking into a public space network as a means to guarantee the existence and maintenance of key landscape systems. A public space network not as an intensive program for public fruition, but definitively with the aim of guaranteeing public accessibility to spaces of ecological continuity and by that, assigning meaning and future stewardship of these same systems, in an extended timeframe.
