Cultural Landscapes

Cultural landscapes reflects a special type of interaction of mankind with nature. It alters the landscape and consequently becomes over time an inherent characteristic of the area e.g. on Greek islands the terrace like small plots of land used by farmers in the past or else the walls running up the mountain to delineate the land and to keep the animals inside.

Stone walls on Paros: abandoned landscape

World Archaeological Congress

There took place 11-16 April 2005 a conference about "Cultural Landscapes in the 21st Century".

Organised by the Forum UNESCO - University and Heritage 10th International Seminar, it was connected to the International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies (ICCHS) at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

This conference looked at landscapes in all of their possible manifestations and wanted to explore above all possible divisions between cultural and natural landscapes and question at the same time the value of this division.

Contact:

T +44 (0)191 222 7419

F +44 (0)191 222 5564

E forum.unesco@ncl.ac.uk

W www.ncl.ac.uk/unescolandscapes

The conference had the following seven themes which can be used to enter discussions and reflections as to what is happening to cultural landscapes. There is a need to establish some base line in reference to the term "cultural landscapes" in order to adjust planning, planning laws and systems in accordance with this specific sphere of interaction by man with nature.

1. Cultural Landscapes, Museums and Heritage (Tangible and Intangible)

Memory and place
Food and cultural landscapes
Music and place
Dance and place
Spiritual/religious landscapes
Indigenous landscapes
Language and place
Ecomuseums and cultural landscapes
Museums and cultural landscapes
Heritage sites and cultural landscapes
Archaeological heritage as cultural landscape
Natural Heritage and cultural landscapes

2. Cultural Landscapes and Visual Culture

Art galleries/art museums and their place in the cultural landscape
Artists and their relationship to specific locales
Landscape as art (e.g. gardens)
‘Land art’
Permanent and temporary art interventions in the landscape
Public art in the landscape
Art galleries and regional/national identities
Rock art and cultural landscapes
Cultural landscapes and Virtual Reality

3. Cultural Landscapes, Identities, and Communities

Landscape as a part of international, national, regional, or local identity
Cultural landscapes and cultural diversity
Exclusion from cultural landscapes
Public participation in landscapes
Sustainable communities and cultural landscapes
Conflicting uses of cultural landscapes
Diaspora and migration within or across cultural landscapes
Exile and concepts of “home” – taking cultural landscape with you while leaving the geographical one behind
Place as intersection of different identities
Inventing new cultural landscapes and alternative conceptions of place

4. Cultural Landscapes, Tourism, and Economics

Landscapes as economic resource
Sustainability and landscapes
Ethics of using cultural landscapes
Balancing demands by tourists and locals upon cultural landscapes
Tourism as a means of regeneration for the landscape
Reinventing post-industrial landscapes as heritage landscapes
Heritage industry and cultural landscapes
Entertainment sector and its impact on cultural landscapes

5. Cultural Landscapes and Architecture

Cityscapes as cultural landscapes
Coastal landscapes
Rural landscapes
Signature buildings and cultural landscapes
The politics of listing architectural and landscape heritage
Managing historic buildings and landscapes
Managing historic buildings
Architecture and historic landscapes
Vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes
The designed landscape as cultural heritage

6. Cultural Landscapes and Education

Learning through cultural landscapes
Teaching cultural landscapes
Informal and formal learning systems and cultural landscapes
Lifelong learning and cultural landscapes
National curricula and cultural landscapes
Working with UNESCO World Heritage Education Project

7. Cultural Landscapes, Management and Protection

Funding cultural landscapes
Management plans/strategies for protecting cultural landscapes
Legislation and conventions (regional, national, and international)
Ethics and cultural landscapes
Governments and Cultural Landscapes
NGOs, International bodies and Cultural landscapes
Charities and the management/protection of cultural landscapes
Communities and their role in managing or protecting cultural landscapes
Managing conflicting interests/demands upon cultural landscapes
Issues of ownership, control, and legal/ethical rights

Source:

http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/unescolandscapes/english/themes.php

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