παλίμψηστος < palimpsestos, ‘again’ + ‘scrape’

παλίμψηστος < palimpsestos, ‘again’ + ‘scrape’

Creative Drivers for Sustainable
Living Heritage Landscapes

Creative Drivers for Sustainable
Living Heritage Landscapes

PALIMPSEST focuses on regenerating the lost sustainability wisdom in heritage landscapes through co-creation with creative actors, technical stakeholders and civic society. Architecture, design and art practices dialogue with place-specific needs and broad systemic challenges to imagine new scenarios and experiment with innovative practices connecting human actions, landscape heritage and sustainability objectives. To experiment and envision novel landscape scenarios, PALIMPSEST focuses on three pilot landscapes with diverse cultural identities and environmental problems.

LANDSCAPE PILOTS

PALIMPSEST ROADMAP

Follow PALIMPSEST’s journey through its progress roadmap

PALIMPSEST in a nutshell

A short video on PALIMPSEST ongoing activities on the three pilots: Jerez de la Frontera (ESP), Lodz (POL) and Milan (IT).

LATEST NEWS

  • PALIMPSEST at the IASLA National Conference 2026 – “Contaminations”

    On the 27th of March 2026, Francesca Berni from the Politecnico di Milano conducted a presentation entitled "Entangling Soil and Sky: Water, Mycelium and Meander as Languages of Landscape [...]

  • The legacy of PALIMPSEST continues through outstanding initiatives such as TerraRara, implemented in Varese (IT) in 2025–2026

    Terra Rara is an environmental art and sustainability project in Varese that transforms small WEEE (Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment) - RAEE in italian, collected from citizens into [...]

  • PALIMPSEST-Led NEB Education MoU Gains Momentum with 33 Signatories Across Europe

    PALIMPSEST project proudly announces the initiation and signing outcomes of a groundbreaking Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that sets the foundation for a new generation of educational and training programs [...]

IN MEMORY OF

Salvatore Iaconesi

“Art is Open Source”

Founder of Artisopensource.net

Consortium

Politecnico Milano 1863
Karakorum Teatro
COAL
Semantika
Novelcore
Nomad Garden
Major Cities of Europe
ŁÓDŹ Design Festival
IFLA Europe
FundArte
ETRE
ERSAF
Ecomuseo del Paesaggio
DESIS Network
CulturaLink
BC3
Ayuntamiento de Jerez
ANCI TOSCANA
ADR Campina
Aalborg Universitat
FineArtsLodz