In cammino. Metodi e pratiche di ricerca-azione attraverso i paesaggi lucani

The book brings together contributions by researchers, architects, and designers who share a common epistemological premise: walking is not a means of reaching a place, but a way of constructing it. The volume argues for the legitimacy of embodied, situated knowledge as a foundation for architectural and territorial design practice. Grounded in the landscapes of Basilicata — a region of low demographic density, high ecological complexity, and an insediative structure historically shaped by the pace of the walking day — the research presented here was developed within the NatureCity LAB at the Università degli Studi della Basilicata, through the Fruilent project and the definition of the Cammino di Basilicata. The book is organized into three sections — Methods, Practices, and Scenarios — articulating the theoretical foundations of walking as an epistemic device (phenomenology, biophilia, embodied cognition, hodological space), their translation into field-based action-research experiences across the nine landscape units of the Regional Landscape Plan, and a curricular proposal for architectural education rooted in haptic intelligence and territorial immersion. Running through all contributions is the conviction that, in an era of generational environmental amnesia, slow walking offers a means of reconstructing the ecological and territorial memory without which no meaningful project of landscape care can take root.