**7.5 Building geography**

We should interpret design as a geographic agent that is still focused on the physical configuration of human occupation of the ground [38, 57, 60].

The proposed approach foresees to first understand how natural processes and peculiarities, coupled with mankind activities, have contributed to mutually building geography, in terms of shaping territory and landscape, as the effects between these two forces, although reflexive to the spatially transcendent systems of flows and processes. Landscape design presupposes a reliable level of awareness in managing the aforementioned agents and a certain care about the consequences of the transformation impressed in a specific site by anthropic activities.

### **7.6 Grounding metabolism**

Grounding metabolism suggests the need for a more explicit and systematic exploration of the geographical imprint of metabolic processes [60–63].

It interprets urban metabolism as an inherently geographic condition, investigating the possibility for a redefinition of the design context in a manner that can grasp both the fluidity of metabolic processes and their geographical engraving on the earth and soil, reshaping landscape. It builds upon an understanding of a contemporary design context that is not merely being upscaled but is in constant circulation through the weaving together of a multiplicity of variegated geographies.
