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The awareness of cultural specificity and geomorphologic and ecological singularities provides the instruments for an evolution capable of transforming the perception of the place and of recovering its memory. The design process is therefore centered in revealing character defining elements that time and indifference have blurred. A plan is then envisioned to create synergy between all these elements in order to capture the mosaic that in space and time has shaped the identity of this place to allow people to reconnect with it. The design restrains itself from a globalized language to adhere to this terrain and these traces through visual suggestions capable of weaving layers of memory to become present. 1. Awareness as root for memory The shift from the presence in a place to the relationship with the place is experienced through the taking on of cultural specificity and geomorphologic and ecological singularities, which wave its identity conditions. It is the critical observation that exposes what appears to a new light and that can provide the instruments for an evolution which is not necessarily a change of the material data, but instead a new awareness, capable of transforming the perception of the place and of recovering its memory. The first contact in this relationship is the search of those meaningful signs through which places could be recognizable as such. Once the relationship is established the issue arises of its persistence and the processing of its defining characteristics. When attention is directed only towards individual monuments it is easy to think of a kind of conservation centered on the protection from incongruent elements. Even in the debates on historical towns the discussion has dealt mostly with the impact of new additions over the original system, often neglecting the process of identification of diffuse monumentalities. In the search of protection of memory the attention has been therefore centered on the new elements of change. When we look at places in their completeness of spatial organizations, of visual relationships, of structures and open spaces, we can instead think of an enhancement of the memory founded on the acquisition of awareness of the places, on the discovery of the elements that define them, on the recognition of traces no longer manifest. In the absence of this awareness, indeed the memory of places can disappear because of the adding up of small actions sprang from indifference, or because of the absence of necessary actions. The awareness of the place is the foundation of its permanence. In this context it is requested to the design project the activity of understanding the place, of seeding elements which would make the comprehension possible, which could be traced back to be then displayed in their evolution. 2. A place of neglected traces The town of Comiso, in Sicily, Italy, is placed at the bottom of hills where centuries of traditional agriculture have designed an intricate network of stone walls, and terraces covered with almond groves, fig.1, fig.2, fig.3. 1 Department of Architecture, Kore University, Italy

Quarries, water, stone walls and groves regenerating the identity landscape of Comiso, Italy