LAPIS aims to operate and reflect on the essence of Swiss Baukultur through the development of an interactive digital platform. The medium is a repository for collected, organised and evolving knowledge that relates to rural ‘non-pedigreed’ built heritage. It is analogous to a dematerialised ‘palimpsest’ whose ambition is to assist and guide those working on the territory to make more informed decisions by understanding the composite and stratified narrative of the Alpine space.
The Digital Palimpsest will endorse the difficult task of geolocating the different mediums produced by the students as well as the research team. This platform aims to be an efficient tool to communicate on what is done within the ENAC, whilst also serving as a pedagogical feature for both the laboratory and the public. Aim and ambition of the research cluster, once the platform has been developed based on the materials collected by our school, is to extend it to the federal level by including in the project the rich collection of surveys carried out by the Swiss Technical Schools (mainly Basel, Berne, Lucerne and Lugano) over the last fifty years. It is also concerned with the representation, archiving and classification of rural heritage in atlases, manuals, postcards and popular collections produced in the last two centuries.
The project encourages critical awareness in the choices of transforming the territory through an interactive, participative and evolutionary tool, i.e. the palimpsest, aimed at all the actors involved in the construction and conservation of the Alpine landscape. The valorisation of ‘lesser knowledge’ as a cultural horizon by the institutions responsible for planning, development and control of the existing heritage is a key element in the sustainable development of the region.
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