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CARERI Errantry and Zonzo

Errantry refers to exploration without fixed points of reference, like the wanderings of Palaeolithic tribes or knight errants. It involves moving through nature and leaving tracks, transforming the landscape into places through experience. Unlike nomadism, errantry has no goals or planned returns, developing entirely within unmapped spaces. It creates the basis for cartography by naming places according to affections and considering territory as unknown facts to discover rather than given. Errantry turns nature into places through the movement of the body.

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CARERI Errantry and Zonzo

Errantry refers to exploration without fixed points of reference, like the wanderings of Palaeolithic tribes or knight errants. It involves moving through nature and leaving tracks, transforming the landscape into places through experience. Unlike nomadism, errantry has no goals or planned returns, developing entirely within unmapped spaces. It creates the basis for cartography by naming places according to affections and considering territory as unknown facts to discover rather than given. Errantry turns nature into places through the movement of the body.

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Land&ScapeSeries: Landscape +

100 words to
inhabit it

Daniela Colafranceschi

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LLEJORDIBELLMUNTAUGUSTINBERQUEAARON BETS-
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Index of definitions

16 Action 44 Depredation 73 Geography


Manuel Ruisánchez Manuel Ruisánchez Enric Batlle
17 Aestheticity 45 Design 75 Geometry
Massimo Venturi Marc Treib Bet Figueras
Ferriolo 48 Digital 76 Government
18 Aesthetics IaN+ Carmelo Baglivo Domenico Luciani
Massimo Venturi and Luca Galofaro 78 Green building
Ferriolo 50 Ecology Walter Grondzik
19 Animal urbanism Bart Lootsma 79 Greenolatry
Lucien Kroll 52 Ecomonumentality Alain Roger
22 Architecture Iñaki Ábalos and 81 Groundscape
Daniela Colafranceschi Juan Herreros Ilka & Andreas Ruby
23 Artialisation 54 Emotion 84 Happening-Defining
Alain Roger Paolo Bürgi Massimo Venturi
25 Atopical variations 55 Energy Ferriolo
Stefano Boeri Michael Jakob 85 Heterodite
27 Beauty 58 Entity Bernard Lassus
Stig L. Andersson Bernard Lassus 86 Hybridisation
28 Biennial 59 Ephemeral Iñaki Ábalos
Jordi Bellmunt Daniela Colafranceschi 88 Hypertext
29 Border 61 Errantry Sébastien Marot
Piero Zanini Francesco Careri 90 Identity
30 Choreography 61 Ethics Christophe Girot
Lawrence Halprin Stig L. Andersson 92 Images
32 Collage 63 Evocations Stefan Rotzler
Tom Porter Philippe Poullaouec- 94 Indeterminacy
33 Connections Gonidec Gilles A. Tiberghien
Lawrence Halprin 65 Exercise grounds 95 Information
35 Cosmophany Jacques Simon James Wines
Augustin Berque 67 Field 100 Instability
36 Culture Manuel Gausa Aaron Betsky
Massimo Venturi 69 Fragility 101 Interaction
Ferriolo María Goula Manuel Gausa
37 Cyberlandscape 71 Garden 103 Interpretation
Anne Cauquelin Dieter Kienast Shlomo Aronson
40 Deconstruction 72 Gaze 105 Interscapes
Lucien Kroll Massimo Venturi Peter Lang
41 Demolishing- Ferriolo 107 Inventive analysis
Remolishing Bernard Lassus
Lucien Kroll
108 Land Art 138 Park 167 Synthetic
Udo Weilacher Gianpiero Donin Stan Allen and
110 Landlinks 140 Parterre James Corner
Manuel Gausa Philippe Poullaouec- 168 Systems
114 Landscape Gonidec Franco Zagari
Bernard Lassus 142 Participation 171 Tactile scale-
115 Littoral Lawrence Halprin Visual scale
Jordi Bellmunt 144 Picturesque Bernard Lassus
116 Mapping Iñaki Ábalos 172 Theatre
Steve Bowkett 144 Place Eugenio Turri
116 Marks Joaquim Español 174 Therapy
João Nunes 146 Planetary Stefan Rotzler
118 Matrix Gilles Clément 176 Third Landscape
Augustin Berque 147 Playscape Gilles Clément
120 Memory Alberto Iacovoni 176 Time
Imma Jansana 150 Process Teresa Galí-Izard
121 Metaphors James Corner 178 Topomorphology
Sébastien Marot 151 Public space João Nunes
124 Metropolis Wolf Prix 178 Tourism
Enric Batlle 152 Radical María Goula
125 Minimalism Jane Amidon 181 Tradition
Christopher 153 Reaction Gilles A. Tiberghien
Bradley-Hole Stefano Boeri 182 Transurbance
126 Modern 155 Rehabilitation Francesco Careri
Joan Roig Peter Latz 184 Visible-Invisible
128 Mosaic 156 Relationship Peter Walker
Richard T. T. Forman Franco Zagari 185 Zonzo
131 Motion 159 Shape Francesco Careri
Gilles Clément Stig L. Andersson
132 Neglect 160 Signs
Shlomo Aronson João Nunes
134 New ecology 161 Social ritual
IaN+ Carmelo Baglivo Michel Conan
and Luca Galofaro 162 Spatial device
136 Observatory Pierre Donadieu
Iñaki Ábalos 164 Sprawl
137 Palimpsest Aaron Betsky
Michel Conan 165 Suburbanism
Sébastien Marot
Index of authors

Iñaki Ábalos Stefano Boeri Gianpiero Donin


Ecomonumentality, Atopical variations, Park
Hybridisation, Reaction
Observatory, Joaquim Español
Picturesque Steve Bowkett Place
Mapping
Stan Allen Bet Figueras
Synthetic Christopher Bradley-Hole Geometry
Minimalism
Jane Amidon Richard T. T. Forman
Radical Paolo Bürgi Mosaic
Emotion
Stig L. Andersson Teresa Galí-Izard
Beauty, Francesco Careri Time
Ethics, Errantry,
Shape Transurbance, Luca Galofaro
Zonzo Digital,
Shlomo Aronson New ecology
Interpretation, Anne Cauquelin
Neglect Cyberlandscape Manuel Gausa
Field,
Carmelo Baglivo Gilles Clément Interaction,
Digital, Motion, Landlinks
New ecology Planetary,
Third landscape Christophe Girot
Enric Batlle Identity
Geography, Daniela Colafranceschi
Metropolis Architecture, María Goula
Ephemeral Fragility,
Jordi Bellmunt Tourism
Biennial, Michel Conan
Littoral Palimpsest, Walter Grondzik
Social ritual Green building
Augustin Berque
Cosmophany, James Corner Lawrence Halprin
Matrix Process, Choreography,
Synthetic Connections,
Aaron Betsky Participation
Instability, Pierre Donadieu
Sprawl Spatial device
61 Errantry

Errantry in constructing space, an action that ploughs


nature through the movement of one’s
Errantry, from the Latin errare, “wander”, body, like tracks left by animals. (See Signs)
“roam”, and iterare, “travel in search of In the millions of years that separate us from
adventure”. 1. (geog.) Exploration without the first imprints of the Australopithecus,
points of reference. The e. of Palaeolithic human beings have developed the capacity
tribes, quests of knight-errants, itinerant, to build their maps on the basis of their
travelling. 2. (aesthet.) searching without experience; they have learnt to name places
aim or objective, straying from the proper according to their affections; to consider
course, place or standard. the territory not as a given and known fact,
The Latin also has a third meaning that but as an unknown fact to know.
does not equate with “errantry” in English: Errantry transforms nature into places. It is
to be mistaken, to make a mistake. the progenitrix of nomadism but, differently
Territorial transformation that creates the from this, does not foresee either goals or
basis for cartography, an aesthetic scientific returns; it develops entirely in unmapped,
interpretation of facts that occur in a terri- or supposedly unmapped, spaces. Errantry
tory. To roam making maps is a primary act is performed without maps, without com-
passes, without cultural preconceptions.
It is extremely suitable for interpreting
micro-transforming processes in progress,
for establishing a record in real time of the
state of the territory: a tactic for archiving
the present. Free from customary paths, this
is research that does not aim to determine,
but wants to be worthy of what happens.

Francesco Careri
By the same author: Transurbance and Zonzo

Ethics
“You who read this probably know what it is
like to stretch out on the ground—be it in
a meadow, on a sports field or the tundra—
gazing up at the skies. Allowing time to
pass before the sky’s impressive and pub-
licly accessible vault. Reading the skies as
teacups or long-nosed faces. Observing the
Celano-Foggia drover’s
road. A tour by Stalker of
the age-old drover’s road
that harks back to the
transhumance of yore.
Transurbance 182

among them know how to assume the deal of work was necessary, starting with a
necessary distance so as to modify their sense of history: “This historical sense, which
meaning and to integrate them in our perceives that which escapes time as well as
contemporary world. Thus, for her Whitehead that which pertains to it, and perceives both
Institute Splice Garden (Cambridge, Mass., things at once, is what makes a writer tradi-
1986) Martha Schwartz used the classical tional. And it is what simultaneously affords
motifs one finds in the parterres in Villandry. the writer the most acute awareness of his
Likewise, when she intervened on Jacob place in time, of his own contemporaneity.”
Javits Plaza in 1996, after the removal in
1989 of Richard Serra’s Tilted arc, her design Gilles A. Tiberghien
By the same author: Indeterminacy
for a sinuous bench in arabesques was a
clear homage to Frederick Law Olmsted.
The latter has recently inspired the French
landscape designer Michel Desvigne, who Transurbance
studied him in depth during a year’s stay at
Harvard, where he’d been invited to teach. Transurbance, from the Latin trans, “across”,
What particularly struck him is the way in and urbis, “city”. 1. (geog.), meadows that
which the works of a technical kind that develop within city walls. The t. mountain
Olmsted had undertaken for the cleansing pasture; to go in t., sin. of wander, roam, rove.
of the stagnant waters bordering the 2. (aesthet.) search for new places, extrapo-
Charles River had been the driving force lation of concepts from urban territories
for an aesthetic design capable of producing but outside the city. To carry out a t., sin. of
new forms of nature. Desvigne was also visit-excursion, ambulation, urban drift, errantry.
inspired by this in his way of planting or 3. (scient.) action searching for pedestrian
of “greening” and then of cutting back the viability and for its possible implications in
plant masses, a technique he continues to the general system of urban mobility.
use in his most recent projects.
One could furnish many other examples An aesthetic–scientific practice that crosses
that show how tradition decomposes and the inner edges of cities, permitting new
is recomposed in many contemporary pro- connections between empty spaces. It is a
jects, how it enriches these projects without nomadic action that crosses truly nomadic
holding them back, how it can be a proposi- voids, territories that extend suburban
tional force if, in order to respect it, one pastures, which insinuate themselves in a
has the capacity to subvert it. In speaking capillary way among the solids of the city
of writers, although this applies to anyone and which still today allow flocks of sheep
taken up with the problem of creation, to cross suburbia. (See Interscapes) Thanks
T. S. Eliot wrote in his essay “Tradition and to these urban sheep-tracks, the city becomes
the new” 65 that it was better to innovate wholly practicable: where sheep pass, human
than to repeat, but that to do this a great beings do too. Other nomadic corridors
183 Transurbance

must be added to these routes that skirt the


dense blocks of the built-up environment.
These are often underground infrastructures
that appear among the cultivated fields like
great strips of uncultivated land, and which
are transformed in cities into large longitu-
dinal terrains vagues that cut through quarters.
The transurban paths provide uninterrupted
foot travel. They are frequented only for
short stretches by local inhabitants who do
not perceive their urban dimension, but can
already be used from today as systems of
pedestrian movement. (See Suburbanism)
Today, their crossing is an aesthetic instru-
ment which, contrary to the architectural or
landscape project, is able to alter their
meaning. They are spaces that present a
type of nature that still has to be understood
and “filled with meaning,” rather than
designed and “filled with things,” even
parks.

Francesco Careri
By the same author: Errantry and Zonzo

Paso nº 12.659. “Architecture and art


Transurbance from Tivoli today in the historic
to Rome via the Acqua centre and in the lands-
Marcia Acqueduct as cape” (San Luce National
part of the workshop Academy).
185 Zonzo

Chicago, Central Park or Paley Park are


examples.
In landscape architecture, sustainability
is at the heart of a work’s success. Lack
of maintenance is a continuing threat. Yet,
in a time of increasing globalisation, highly
imaginative works can now travel through
Z
modern media and have expanded power
to influence culture world wide. Through
the modern imaging process, even temporary Zonzo
works such as the Columbian Exposition,
the Festival of Briton, and even the Bagel Andare a Zonzo (to wander about with no aim)
Garden are able to have great influence, is an aesthetic instrument for exploring and
for better or for worse. transforming the current city. By roaming
Permanent or temporary, these iconic works about and losing himself, Palaeolithic man
are essential to public perception, cultural began to construct the natural landscape
dialogue, and professional criticism. that surrounded him, and by wandering
Without visibility there is no awareness of the about and getting lost in the last century
design of open spaces. categories were formed for interpreting the
Without visibility we may be merely the sound urban landscapes we live in today. In fact,
in the forest. walking about can in many cases replace
designing; it is the action that has permitted
Peter Walker man to give a name to places, to form his
geography, to work the first symbolic trans-
formation of the territory. Walking and
mapping at the same time is the form of
the nomadic project.
As in all imaginary cities, Zonzo sinks its
roots in reality: it is the nomad city that
lives inside the sedentary city; it is the city of
roaming about with no destination, of wast-
ing time and of finding spaces. It is a place
that emerges with the same idea of city but
which only began to be “visible” towards
the end of the 19th century with the crisis in
traditional artistic representation and with
the consolidation of the industrial city of
which wandering about is in fact the other
side of the coin, being the place in which
Zonzo 186

its discards “make space”. In the beginning transformation represented in the film by
it was the city of the flâneur described by an uninterrupted flow of rubbish that
Baudelaire and by Benjamin, that idler who provided nourishment and life for an entire
lost himself among the shop-windows of the derelict humanity. Again in the 1920s,
boulevards and the new buildings in iron wandering about became the object of Dada
in Paris at the end of the 19th century. “visits” and Surrealist “deambulations”; they
But soon it was transformed into that “else- declared the existence of “banal places” and
where” which, in Paris, was placed between “unconscious places” to be explored as in
the périferie extérieure and intérieure and which the mind; places in which to intervene with
in French is called la Zone. It is probable a nomadic attitude. Visiting them on foot
that Zonzo derived etymologically from this and without leaving any traces, without
zone, which is an onomatopoeic and almost leaving any artworks. The ambulatory paths
shamanic repetition of zon-zon, that is, would then be travelled by Lettrists and
“to go to the Zone,” an exotic place where Situationists, who, in the 1950s, by means
chaos reigns, where strange objects can be of the subversive théorie de la dérive, or drift
found and unexpected encounters made. theory, discovered a “playful” and “nomadic”
Here, in 1928, Georges Lacombe filmed city that opposed the homologation of the
La Zone, a zone on the edges of modernity modern project and the society of spectacle.
that lives a state of constant entropic (See Transurbance)
Planisfero Roma, map of Stalker attraverso i territori
the four-day tour through attuali, Jean-Michel Place,
the Existing Territories of Paris, 2000.
Rome, and from the book
187 Zonzo

Today, increasingly numerous researchers are


exploring this wandering about. The urban
art collaborator Stalker (www.stalkerlab.it),
recently merged in Osservatorio Nomade,
tries to reveal gaps in it by walking them.
Through the practice of “transurbance”, it
crosses the “empty” spaces that have escaped
from the control of landscape designers
and urbanists, uncertain and indeterminate
spaces that constitute, like a form of urban
amnesia, the unconscious project of the city.
As well as the great “urban voids”, which will
soon be saturated by the residential block
builders, or, somewhat better, reduced to
parks by the administrations’ mania for
requalifying and rebinding (as though these
spaces did not enjoy their own “quality” and
could not live in a system of “tears”), truly
nomadic spaces exist that derive from the
suburban pastoral territories.
Through wandering, new questions and
new answers emerge from the territory
about unresolved issues of the present city,
about the nature of its new public spaces
and the new communities that will inhabit
them. Like Palaeolithic man’s walking and
mapping, transurbance is still today an
instrument which, due to its intrinsic char-
acteristic of the simultaneous reading and
writing of space, lends itself to listening to
and interacting with the mutating of these
places, to intervening in their continual be-
coming, in the hic et nunc of transformation,
sharing from the inside the doubts and
mutations of the spaces that question the
contemporary project on a daily basis.

Francesco Careri
By the same author: Errantry and Transurbance

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