The purpose of the teaching project is to introduce students to the diachronic study of the abandoned landscapes of the Apuan-Versilian area, exploring the places of “resurgence”, or those areas that have been the scene of economic and subsistence activities and which are now abandoned. Students will be invited to explore responses multispecies to the abandonment of pastures, forests, cultivated areas, and quarries, documenting how pioneer species (animals and plants) occupy the spaces and how the study of these dynamics can offer important information to reconstruct the multifaceted stories of the mountains.
The landscape of the Versilian slopes is the result of a succession of abandonments that have set forth its economic and social marginality: the abandonment of houses and land; the interruption of agricultural, pastoral, and mining practices; the loss of vegetal and faunal associations linked to the features of a disappeared landscape.