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| THE OBSERVER
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Jean Marc Besse
Philosopher and historian, director of research at the CNRS and editor-in-chief of the journal Carnets du paysage
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There are a wide variety of definitions, approaches, professions and languages in relation to landscape. The landscapes of the architect are not the same as those of the landscape architect, the photographer, the art historian, the geographer, the anthropologist, the poet, the ecologist, the engineer, the politician, the administrator or the tourist, the inhabitant, etc., even though there may be communication between them and occasional common ground. [+]
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| MOSAIC
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| Upcoming International Seminar on 'Landscape Governance for Spatial Planning' |
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The Landscape Observatory of Catalonia and the Ministry of Territory of the Generalitat are holding the International Seminar “Landscape Governance for Spatial Planning” on 26 and 27 April 2023 in Barcelona. The seminar aims to explore new methodologies, tools and instruments that place landscape at the heart of spatial planning. To register, send an email to inscripcio@catpaisatge.net indicating us if you want to register to attend in person or follow the seminar online.[+]
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| Landscapes of fear |
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Once again, the Observatory has collaborated with the annual MOT literature festival. This year’s theme was fear, and the public were invited to send in photographs of places that generate this sensation, to then be projected during the two weeks of the festival on the screens of the Mariano Vayreda library in Olot and in the foyer of the Carlos Rahola library in Girona. Landscapes are full of meaning and they generate emotions that directly influence our well-being. We are continually interacting with places emotionally, imbuing them with meanings that they return to us through the emotions they stimulate. Fear is one such possible reaction, and different landscapes can inspire fear in different people. [+]
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| Publication of the latest results of the Swiss Landscape Evolution Monitoring (LABES) programme |
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This monitoring programme, launched in 2007 by the Federal Office for the Environment (OFEV), looks at both the evolution of physical changes in the landscape and changes in people’s perception of the landscape. The results show that people living in more rural environments value their landscapes more positively than those living in urban environments. The results also make it clear that, while there are some positive trends, such as the fact that urbanised areas are growing at a slower rate than the population, the landscape is still under constant pressure. This means that without measures to protect and improve the quality of the landscape, especially in the field of spatial and urban planning, it will not be possible to achieve the landscape quality objectives set out in the Swiss Landscape Concept.
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| France looks to Catalonia's landscape catalogues to update the methodology of its Atlas de paysages |
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Last February, a team from the French Government’s Ministry of Ecological Transition met with the Landscape Observatory to exchange information and experiences on methodologies for the creation of landscape catalogues, as it is currently in the process of revising the methodology for its own catalogue, known as the Atlas de paysages. This is not the first time that landscape catalogues have been used as a point of reference by the French Government. In 2018, the General Council for the Environment and Sustainable Development of the Ministry of Ecological Transition produced the report Landscape interventions in Europe. Points of comparison for French public policies, which mentioned the Catalan Law on landscape protection, management and planning, the creation of the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia and the deployment of the landscape catalogues as examples to follow.
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| Entries are open for the Rosa Barba Casanovas International Landscape Architecture Prize |
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The Rosa Barba Casanovas International Landscape Architecture Prize aims to recognise the best and most innovative practices in landscape architecture, for construction projects created worldwide from 2017 to 2022. The deadline for submitting projects is 30 May 2023. All selected projects will be published in the catalogue of the 12th Barcelona International Landscape Biennial and its online archive, as well as being included in an exhibition. In addition, between seven and eleven finalists will be invited to attend the Biennial, to be held on 27 and 28 November 2023. The winner will be awarded a prize of €15,000 by the International Jury thanks to the collaboration of Fundació Banc Sabadell.
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| The Observatory helps to draft the National Commitment to Responsible Tourism |
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Catalan tourism is at a crossroads that requires a renewed outlook adapted to current challenges and to a constantly changing world. To this end, more than a hundred companies, tourism associations and institutions, local authorities, training and research centres, trade unions, civic and environmental organisations have signed up to the National Commitment to Responsible Tourism, a tool for cross-sectoral consensus among a large number of actors that was presented on 23 March 2023 in the La Llotja building. The National Commitment to Responsible Tourism, which the Observatory helped to draft and to which it adheres, places landscape at the centre of the tourism strategy. The document is the result of a broad process of collective participation and an effort to reconcile very diverse projects and perspectives.
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| Seville Declaration on the Integration of the Social Dimension in Cultural Landscape Research and Management |
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On 30 November and 1 December 2022, the International Symposium “Cultural Landscapes and Social Perceptions” was held at the Seville University School of Architecture. The Symposium, in which the director of the Landscape Observatory participated, was the final event of the project PAYSOC. Landscape and Society. Analysis of Social Perception in Cultural Landscapes, led by the Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage (IAPH). A result of this Symposium was the drafting of the Seville Declaration on the Integration of the Social Dimension in Cultural Landscape Research and Management, signed by all the speakers who participated in the Symposium. This text aims to act as a benchmark for all those who research and manage cultural landscapes by promoting the integration of social perception and participation in measures that affect the landscape. To subscribe the declaration, fill out this form.
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| Laboratory dedicated to landscape and industry |
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The Technical Office for Economic Development Strategies of Barcelona Provincial Council has organised several sessions to explore how landscape connects with new economies. In this section you can consult the materials for the landscape laboratories. This laboratory, held in November 2022, explored the relationship between industry and landscape management at the local level, in terms of location and productive uses. It addressed issues such as whether the quality of the landscape is an important factor for the location of industry, which industrial products are associated with the landscape, and which are the main industrial landscapes in Catalonia. All the documentation for the sessions can be freely consulted here.
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| ENFooCA 2023 grant Arnau Bartrina Luque Awards |
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The Landscape Observatory is part of the jury for this residency grant for young people aged between 18 and 35 whose work deals with biodiversity and landscape in a broad sense in the region of La Garrotxa through photography and/or video. The grants have been created with the aim of supporting work in these areas, with the collaboration of the La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park, the Olot School of Art, Olot City Council and La Garrotxa County Council. Candela Sánchez López and Celia Moreno Crespo were selected as the winners of the ENFooCA 2023 grant with their project “Noviembre”, which focuses on researching and portraying the volcanic hills in the La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park.
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| The three editions of 'Theory and Landscape' in a printed book |
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The three books of the collection ‘Teoría y Paisaje’, published, now in paper, by the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia and Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. The first number of the collection, published in 2011 only in a digital version, arose from the International Seminar ‘Reflections from interdisciplinary perspectives’. The second number, also published in a digital version in 2015, was the result of the second seminar, this time entitled ‘Landscape and emotion. The resurgence of emotional geographies’. And finally, seven years later, emerges the third and last number, as a result of the celebration in 2021 of the third International Seminar, entitled ‘Creative landscapes. The art and the reinvention of places'.
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| Inauguration of the L'Alt Empordà Landscape Interpretation Centre (CIPAE) |
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L’Alt Empordà County Council and El Far d’Empordà Town Council have opened the L’Alt Empordà Landscape Interpretation Centre (CIPAE) to raise awareness of the diversity and value of the county’s landscapes. The centre, located in the municipality of El Far d’Empordà, includes a permanent exhibition, a network of routes and educational activities. The exhibition, designed for all publics, gives a brief description of Catalonia’s different types of landscape and the instruments used for their protection, management and planning, and focuses particularly on the landscapes of the L’Alt Empordà area. The Landscape Observatory of Catalonia collaborated in creating some of the materials included in the exhibition.
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| DIGITAL LANDSCAPE |
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| Documenta paisatge |
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Platform for multimedia teaching material on the subject of landscape. Created by Department of Urbanism and Spatial Planning of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
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| PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
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| Paisaje y energías alternativas |
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Pascual Riesco Chueca (coord.) Monográfico de la Revista PH núm. 108, febrero de 2023. Sevilla: Junta de Andalucía, Instituto Andaluz de Patrimonio Històrico. Available here.
The main section of the latest issue of Revista PH offers a debate on the subject of alternative energies and landscape, bringing together the voices of specialists in various fields, including Landscape Observatory specialist Jordi Grau, with the article “Energías renovables bien inseridas en el paisaje: una cuestión de modelo y de criterios de integración paisajística” (Good insertion of renewable energies into the landscape: a question of model and landscape integration criteria).
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| Región. Paisaje fotografía patrimonio |
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David Rejano; Mariela Beltrán. Madrid: Dirección General de Patrimonio Cultural, Comunidad de Madrid, 2022. ISBN: 978-84-451-4031-4.
Catalogue of the exhibition of the same name, which takes us on a journey through the Community of Madrid from the perspective of landscape as heritage. The book shows part of the results of the photographic quest titled “Region” undertaken by 33 photographers – 17 women and 16 men – throughout all the municipalities of the Community of Madrid.
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| Guía de criterios paisajísticos en el contacto urbano-rural en Navarra |
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Michela Ghislanzoni (coord.). Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, 2022. ISBN: 978-84-235-3648-1.
The guide includes the main lines of research on peri-urban spaces as well as a series of recommendations for landscape integration, and offers reflections and recommendations for the work of organisations, agents and citizens in territorial management.
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| Paisatges literaris |
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Núria Solsona. Barcelona: Zahorí, 2023. ISBN: 978-84-19532-62-6.
The publication brings together twenty-five masterpieces of youth and world literature in a journey of discovery through the places where their authors once lived or dreamed. In every great work, the setting and the landscape are as closely linked to the story as are any of the characters.
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| Imagier paysage-énergie. L'Évolution des paysages en France : quelle place pour l'énergie? |
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Savine Pied; Bertrand Folléa. École nationale supérieure de paysage, 2022. ISBN: 978-2-490857-15-9. Disponible here.
Through illustrations, the book offers an understanding of the evolution of France’s energy-related landscapes, the contemporary challenges of the energy and ecological transition, and the new landscapes that could emerge in the future depending on the choices that are being made today.
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| Revista Paisagens Híbridas: espaços livres, redes ecológicas e direito à paisagem |
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Flavia Teixeira Braga (org.). Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, volum 2, núm. 1 (2022). Available here.
Thematic issue dedicated to the third international colloquium entitled “Lote e Quadra, Cidade e Território”, with the aim of promoting, expanding and updating the debate on environmental urbanism from an interdisciplinary point of view, with landscape as the underlying theme.
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