Seduced and Abbandoned — 2018/2019
Starting from the 1960s the Alps began to be exploited by ski-oriented tourism. In Italy, a climate of prosperity and a ski boom driven by the successes of a group ot athletes known as the “Valanga Azzurra” transformed, over the years, the Alps in a sort of playground for tourists fleeing from cities during the holidays and weekends.
A development model based on building infrastructures and expanding the alpine skiing tourism industry, seen as the only way to slow down the depopulation of the Alps and give a future to this fragile ecosystem.
But climate change, speculation, bad investments and the decline in the number of skiers have undermined this development model, leaving behind a cemetery ot steel cables, concrete, parking lots, abandoned hotels and deforested slopes.
Only in Italy there are almost 200 abandoned ski resorts, a number that will keep increasing in the future as, according to recent studies, there will be no future for ski resorts without artificial snow and below a certain altitude.
“Seduced and abandoned” is a project on a development model no longer sustainable, on the legacy of alpine tourism, and on the life of those people that, despite the difficulties, don’t want to leave these almost abandoned places.
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FQ Millennium (Italy)
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Der Spiegel (Germany)
Seduced and Abbandoned — 2018/2019
Starting from the 1960s the Alps began to be exploited by ski-oriented tourism. In Italy, a climate of prosperity and a ski boom driven by the successes of a group ot athletes known as the “Valanga Azzurra” transformed, over the years, the Alps in a sort of playground for tourists fleeing from cities during the holidays and weekends.
A development model based on building infrastructures and expanding the alpine skiing tourism industry, seen as the only way to slow down the depopulation of the Alps and give a future to this fragile ecosystem.
But climate change, speculation, bad investments and the decline in the number of skiers have undermined this development model, leaving behind a cemetery ot steel cables, concrete, parking lots, abandoned hotels and deforested slopes.
Only in Italy there are almost 200 abandoned ski resorts, a number that will keep increasing in the future as, according to recent studies, there will be no future for ski resorts without artificial snow and below a certain altitude.
“Seduced and abandoned” is a project on a development model no longer sustainable, on the legacy of alpine tourism, and on the life of those people that, despite the difficulties, don’t want to leave these almost abandoned places.
FEATURED ON
The Guardian (UK)
FQ Millennium (Italy)
Tidningen Re:Public (Sweden)
The New Republic (USA)
Der Spiegel (Germany)
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