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| THE OBSERVER
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Marina Cervera
Executive Director of the Barcelona International Biennial of Landscape Architecture
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Landscape remediation entails a profound reflection on our connection with the Earth and our ethical commitment to the vision of Earth as a self-regulating and complex system, as proposed by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis—the concept of Gaia.[+]
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| MOSAIC
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| Conferences of the International Seminar Communities and Peripheries |
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The International Seminar Communities and Peripheries, in which the Observatory collaborated and participated, addressed the idea of marginal or forgotten landscapes from the perspective of the society that inhabits and builds them. It was celebrated in A Fonsagrada, in Lugo. The seminar took place on the 21st and 22nd of September: researchers from different fields and European countries reflected on communities, the relationship with the environment and creative capacities. An open forum was also coordinated where residents of A Fonsagrada could comment to the attendees on issues related to urban development and population decline. You can watch the videos of the conferences, here.
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| Olot TV's Paisatges encreuats has now visited all landscape units in Catalonia |
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In 2018, Olot Televisió launched the first season of Paisatges encreuats, a programme that sought to explain the 134 catalan landscapes from the Landscape Catalogues in terms of the people who live in and from them. Five years later, it has broadcast 11 seasons, 143 episodes, and filming the 134 landscape units included in the Landscape Catalogues of Catalonia has finally been reached. The Observatory has acted as technical consultant for the screenplay and helped find experts or people familiar with the territory. This last season will travel around Catalonia to show the country's main features and the singularities of its landscapes.[+]
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| Map and all information about Andorra's new 2035 National Landscape Strategy now available online |
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The new National Landscape Strategy of Andorra, approved by the Andorran Government on 7 December 2022 and drafted with the technical support of the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia, is organised around a landscape map that includes the four principles, the seven landscape quality objectives and the twenty-eight areas of activity resulting from a participatory process with the commune authorities, the Government's ministries, associations and the general public. Now, an open-access GIS portal enables anyone to view the map in digital format and inspect the layers that interest them most. In addition, all information about the Strategy can be viewed on the Andorran Government's Environment and Sustainability website.
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| 30th anniversary of the French Landscape Act |
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The Landscape Act is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Approved in 1993, the French Landscape Protection and Improvement Act anchored the landscape in regional planning, recognising it as an essential component of the population's quality of life. It set certain goals for protecting and improving French landscapes, both the exceptional and the everyday, and implemented a number of tools that are still valid today and used as reference standards in other European countries. To mark its 30th anniversary, several regional and local institutions and organisations in France have organised commemorative events during the year.
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| 12th Barcelona Landscape Biennial ready for the off |
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The 12th Barcelona International Landscape Biennial is set to take place from 24 to 28 November next to reflect on ways to address climate change mitigation and how the landscape can become an essential tool for achieving this. The event will bring together landscape and architecture professionals and experts at one of the sector's top international conferences.The Biennial includes the Rosa Barba Casanovas International Landscape Prize for the best professional landscaping projects, the Ribas Piera International School Prize, a Symposium on landscape theory, and an exhibition of the finalist projects for the Rosa Barba Prize. The Book-catalogue of the 11th Barcelona International Landscape Biennial (2021) will also be presented during this year's event.
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| Agence d'Urbanisme Catalane visits the Observatory |
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On 19 September, the Landscape Observatory's documentation centre hosted a working visit by specialists from the Agence d'Urbanisme Catalane Pyrénées-Méditerranée (AURCA, Perpignan) and the Conseil de Développement du Pays Pyrénées-Méditerranée, Céret, who were interested in learning about the Observatory's projects. The Agence d'Urbanisme Catalane is an interdisciplinary centre for resources, studies, research, advice and collaborative engineering. It was created in 2007 on the initiative of elected representatives and the French government to provide support to communities in defining sustainable regional development and planning policies.
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| The Observatory, invited to the National Landscape Forum in Ireland |
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With the title 'From Landscape Past to Landscape Future', 26 lectures were given before more than 100 attendees at the National Landscape Forum 2023, held on 27, 28 and 29 September in the Irish city of Waterford. Starting with an assessment of the implementation of the current Irish National Landscape Strategy, it went on to address a great variety of issues related to the future protection, management and planning of Irish landscapes (natural areas, urban landscapes, woodland management, heritage activation, energy transition, etc.). The National Landscape Forum wished to apprise itself first-hand of the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia's evolution and work and invited its director, Pere Sala i Martí, to speak there.
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| Third ENFooCA Grant |
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Proposals can be sent until 31 December for the 3rd ENFooCA Grant, within the Arnau Bartrina Luque Awards. 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 scholarships are also supported by the La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park, the Olot School of Art, Olot Town Council and La Garrotxa County Council. The annual event was hold on 20 October, with a display of the results of the 2021-2022 ENFooCA Grant-winning project "November", by Candela Sánchez López and Celia Moreno Crespo, focused on the study and visualisation of the volcanic hills in the La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park.
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| A video to rethink historical gardens |
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For a few weeks now, the cultural heritage portal of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya has been offering a monograph on historical gardens. Based on some of the protagonists of the International Seminar Revisiting Historical Gardens. The past in the present , which was organized by the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia and the Department of Culture in June 2022, the website is headed by a video featuring Ignacio Somovilla, art historian and cultural manager; José Tito Rojo, former curator of the Botanical Garden of the University of Granada; Elena Belart, former head of the Architectural Heritage Service of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia, and Pere Sala i Martí, director of the Landscape Observatory. The stories of the historical gardens continue with the selection of five Catalan gardens, which are: the Artigas Gardens, the Ciutadella Park, the Laberint d’Horta Park, the Marimurtra Botanical Garden and the Samà Park. [+]
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| Cervià de les Garrigues organises first Garrigues Landscape Festival |
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On 9 September, Cervià de les Garrigues was the venue for the Garrigues Landscape Festival. It started with a guided walk of the "Trail of the Seven Senses" and continued with a number of events, including the exhibition "Tota pedra fa paret" (Every stone makes a wall) and a round table with organisations and experts. At the end of the day, a Manifesto was read out to call attention to the territory. The Festival sought to highlight the landscapes in which the village is immersed and the region's visual environment. The event was organised by Cervià de les Garrigues' town council with the collaboration of the environmental services organisation La Llena. Next year, it is planned to hold the Festival in Torrebesses.
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| DIGITAL LANDSCAPE |
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| Pobles abandonats |
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Pobles Abandonats tells you through the heritage remains how a place functioned at a specific time. From observation and analysis, all those populated places that have undergone a process of total or partial abandonment are documented. The aim is to alleviate the effects of depopulation and reverse the dynamics established especially in rural environments in order to optimize the territory through a more efficient distribution of resources.
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| PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
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| Estudiar el paisaje en la ciudad |
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Lucas Períes; Silvina Barraud. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires: Diseño, 2023. ISBN: 978-1-64360-741-2.
With a prologue by the Observatory's director, Pere Sala i Martí, this book talks about the landscapes that are closest to us, the everyday landscapes, especially certain urban and periurban landscapes that have often been left out of what popular, academic and even institutional culture has considered to be a landscape, let alone a landscape with value. That is why a book that talks about realities that are still little studied in terms of public perception, collective awareness and institutional acknowledgement is so timely.
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| Lo mig del món |
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Roser Vernet. Barcelona: Club Editor, 2023. ISBN: 978-84-7329-412-6.
This book gives an answer to a question: What ties do you have with the place you live in? It is a tie that is just as important, complex and emotive as the tie that binds the members of a family. For Roser Vernet, this place is El Priorat, where the struggle to maintain life on the land has led her to imagine new ways of inhabiting the world, the only ways that will be valid from now on. Lo mig del món (The middle of the world) explores a microcosmos. And the person who is explaining it knows every inch of it: because she has lived in it, has been exiled from it and has now returned. Her thought takes root with the strength of someone who knows all the faces of a territory and is able to read them.
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| Europa? |
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Chris burkham, Ignacio Evangelista. [S.l.]: Dossier, 2023. ISBN: 978-0-6489790-2-9.
This book is a collaboration between a Spanish photographer and a British writer that combines photography and fiction and explores the experiences of today's European immigrants. Ignasi Evangelista's photographic series After Schengen shows former European border crossings that are now abandoned, which in turn inspired Chris Burkham to write the stories included in the book.
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| Hospedar/se |
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Francesco Careri. Barcelona: Puente Editores, 2023. ISBN: 978-84-12-712407.
After years talking about walking as an aesthetic practice, Francesco Careri talks here about hospitality spaces as a complement to a way of being in the world. It is an autobiographical account of moments and situations, but it is also a proposal to refound towns and cities as places of hospitality, to build specific places on contemporary ruins that are intended for real people, places of passage and coming together for different people, places of recreation and storytelling, of sharing between hosts and guests, as in the inns of other times.
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| Ensambles, paisaje contemporáneo y pràctica patrimonial |
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Rodrigo de la O Cabrera, Manuel; Arques Soler, Francisco (eds.). Madrid: Abada Editores, 2023. ISBN:978-84-19008-50-3.
In this book, academics, scientists, architects, artists, technicians, engineers and managers exchange arguments in a critical context of redefining the relationship between humans and nature. The common goal is to map the changes that have taken place in how the landscape and its heritagisation are understood and, from there, reflect on the challenges for the future.
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| Atlas literario de la tierra. Paisajes de palabras |
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Eduardo Martínez de Pisón. Madrid: Fórcola, 2023. ISBN: 978-84-16247-10-3.
The author proposes that we enjoy and love the Earth, instilling in us the feeling of Nature, constantly threatened by man's greed, with the aim of attaining a "cordial" geography through which we can discover the soul of the landscape. All of this is based on the fundamental principle that underpins the author's geographical knowledge: that the landscape is more than just territory; it is territory plus culture.
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