Costa Produttiva. Rotte progettuali per i territori della pesca e le borgate marine della Sardegna

Global and European objectives for the sustainable management of marine ecosystems invite us to reflect on the productive fishing system that feeds them and, at the same time, is one of the main causes of their impoverishment due to its 'extractive' character. The thesis aims to explore the 'productive coast' as a system of coastal spaces – limen, not limes – inhabited and transformed by man for the exercise of fishing activities; in this sense, the study examines the morphologies of fisheries production, understood as a driver of territorial construction, identifying fishing villages as outposts of the wider and more complex fishing territories, and therefore as privileged spatial entities for access to the latter. Beginning with the definition of a general glossary necessary for the description of the subject and an anthropogeographical overview of the latter in Sardinia, the study focuses on a specific Sardinian coastal area, representative of the variety of 'sea professions' practiced in its multiple waters, and then develops within it a heterogeneous and synergetic combination of imaginative pathways workshops. This methodological device is not framed as an in-depth study of the pedagogy of architectural design or as the applicative outcome of a theory, but as a reasoned exercise of the 'project of the project', the articulation of (project) experimentation from an abductive perspective and as an epistemological agent for understanding the spatial phenomena of these contexts. The result of the research is a set of guidelines to support the transformation of coastal areas wishing to pursue a development path along the lines of a 'new sustainable fishing'. The guidelines are based on the projective reflections of the workshops and make use not only of the results of the project, but above all of the process that has been initiated, investigating both the forms of the existing and the forms of the possible, through a speculative practice that progresses through recursive revisions and discrete adaptations.