Designing the Latina Landscape
- Project timeframe
- Complete
- Research area
- Graphic Design
- Amount awarded
- Undisclosed
- Funder ID
- Loughborough University Changing Environments and Infrastructure cross-research challenge.
Project leader: Dr Robert Harland
What role did design play in the creation of the Latina Province in Fascist Italy during the early twentieth century? This pilot study explores the integrated design perspectives that contributed to the creation of the Latina Province (formerly Littoria Province), Italy, in the early twentieth century.
The visual character of the written discourse, visual images, nonverbal communication, architecture and the built environment was characterised by the corporativist urbanism put to work by the Fascist regime across the various scales at which design functioned. Said to be the most ambitious programme and grandest display of Fascist power, the urban fabric of the region is adorned with fascist iconography manifest in the monuments and memorials on public display. Many of these symbolic elements have since been removed in the light of attempts to disassociate the place with that time in Italy’s past, but there remains traces of Fascism that still serve to stimulate the urban graphic memory at the macro, meso and micro scale.