"Water territories: from resistance to resilience"

For too long, water has been approached in a singular way in our territories, treating it as either a static "postcard" aesthetic or a hidden, utilitarian backside of the city. This binary approach severed our understanding of water as a fundamental landscape system. To design in the face of contemporary climate instability, we must re·source our relationship with the hydrological cycle, acknowledging it not as a decorative element, but as the primary geomorphological scaffolding of our territories. Re-centering water as a developmental driver moves us beyond mere mitigation. Here, valleys act as systemic backbones, watersheds define territorial cohesion, and rising sea levels shift from external threats to internal design parameters. Dealing with water through project-processes unfolds across three dimensions, which are 1) the landscape foundations, 2) the territorial solidarities, and 3) the living metabolisms. By unraveling these layers, we can move toward an urban design that does not merely manage water, but actively inhabits its logic.