A PLACE FOR LEARNING AND UNLEARNING
Cogne brings the core themes of Creative Ecology Residency into the most fascinating Alpine environment.
The National Park
Cogne is part of Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy’s oldest national park. But is conservation enough ? Or should we develop a completely different relationship with Nature?
History and Tradition
Vivi un viaggio profondo nella cultura locale, scoprendo il legame storico e indissolubile che unisce le comunità montane al proprio ambiente circostante.
The flow of Water
Lasciati guidare dalla forza vitale dell’acqua, elemento centrale e guida silenziosa che modella questo paesaggio montano unico e straordinario.
COGNE — A LIVING LANDSCAPE
Cogne is more than a location. It is a living landscape shaped by rock, water, climate and human presence—an active setting for observation, learning and transformation.
WATER WRITES THE VALLEY
Glaciers, snow, streams and rain have shaped Cogne over thousands of years. Water carves, connects and transforms—through erosion, floods, sediment and seasonal change.
LEARNING FROM INSTABILITY
The Alps remind us that landscapes are never fully predictable. Weather shifts, rivers overflow, slopes move. Here, uncertainty becomes something to observe, understand and respond to.
ROCK, ICE, TIME
Cogne makes different scales of time visible. Rock, glaciers, torrents and vegetation reveal a landscape in continuous transformation—from geological time to sudden change.
FROM MOUNTAIN TO RESOURCE
Cogne’s mining history tells another story of the landscape: the mountain as resource to be exploited. But can a landscape be “owned” ?
THE INHABITED VALLEY
Cogne is neither untouched wilderness nor simply a human landscape. Villages, tourism, agriculture, mining heritage and protected ecosystems coexist, revealing how nature and culture continuously shape one another.