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The contemporary interest over the landscape is one of the defining features of our times. It is central for today's territorial management issues, for the appraisal and preservation of the natural patrimony, for the urban development interventions, for the culture of tourism, as well as for the debates concerning the ecology and about the sustainability. Nevertheless, beyond these aspects tied to the problems of the territory and its managements in which landscape is more an object than a concept of study; the interest has also spread over the field of the critique and the theoretical analysis, and of the history of the landscape and its symbolic representations.
Today, landscape is a complex notion, inflationary and omnipresent, which its conceptual limits and its critical and historical meanings should be the object of a careful analysis. The landscape is, or should be, a physical fact, a cultural representation, an aesthetic construction, and a political category. Are indetermination and inconsistency inherent parts of the concept of landscape? Do or could share geographers, urban planners, philosophers, historians, engineers or artist a common conceptualization of landscape? How is translated over the landscape, the relation that the technological and post-industrial societies establish with the nature and the physical environment? These, among others, are the questions that remind us the need of a critical and rigorous analysis before any material or symbolic intervention on the landscape.
The present approach of the studies on landscape is on the verge of different overlapping disciplines. The contribution of the new cultural studies adds to the perspectives of older disciplines such as history, the theory of the arts, geography, cultural history or anthropology. Landscape is therefore analyzed as an interdisciplinary concept, an epistemological category that cannot be reduced to a single theoretical framework. Its real meaning could, therefore be unfolded from the hybridization of plural discourses of different disciplines and practices.
Following on this, the international seminar on "Theory and Landscape" will focus on the following issues:
- the epistemological and methodological debate on the concept of landscape and its theoretical and material applications,
- the debate on the idea and the representations of landscape, in particular those generated during the last two decades, for example: emotional landscapes, experiential landscapes, landscape as project and as process
- the suitability of the interdisciplinary approach in the development of the new ways of thinking and interpreting the notion of landscape,
- the inflation of the use of landscape in contemporary discourses and the trivialization of its meaning and content,
- the place of landscape in contemporary artistic discourses and in art production
- Create a space for an epistemological and methodological debate on the concept of landscape and its theoretical and practical applications, from the dialectics of the interdisciplinary discussion.
- Discuss the most recent currents of thought concerning the landscape,
- Create a forum of debate in the university area with vocation of continuity and internationalization
9:00 - Registration and distribution of the seminar materials
9:30 - Opening Session with José Juan Moreso (President of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Jordi Ibañez (Head of the Humanities Department, UPF) and Estela Ocampo (Director of the Institute of Culture, UPF)
Presentation of the Seminar by Isabel Valverde and Antoni Luna, members of the Scientific Committee, and funders of the SIIP (InterdisciplinaryResearch Seminar on Landscape, UPF).
10:00 - Jean Marc Besse, UMR Géographie-cités, CNRS-Paris I-Paris VII
L'espace du paysage. Considérations théoriques
El espacio del paisaje. Consideraciones teóricas
The space of landscape. Theoretical considerations
10:45 - Joan Nogué, Universitat de Girona and Observatori del Paisatge de Catalunya
Paisaje y comunicación: el resurgir de las geografías emocionales
Paysage et communication: le retour des géographies émotionnelles
Landscape and Communication: the Re-Emergence of Emotional Geographies
11.30-12:00 Coffee Break
12:00- Francesc Muñoz, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona:
Paisajes in vitro
Paysages in vitro
In Vitro Landscapes
13:00- Roundtable Discussion, chaired by Antonio Luna, UPF
14:00-16:00 Lunch break
16:00 - Michael Jakob, Haute École du Paysage, d'Ingéniérie et d'Architecture (hepia) Genève and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
L'omni-paysage ou trop de paysage tue le paysage
El omni-paisaje, o demasiado paisaje mata el paisaje
Omni-Landscape, or too much Landscape kills the Landscape
16:45 - Daniela Colafranceschi, Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria
Arquitectura y paisaje. Geografías próximas
Architecture et paysage. Géographies de proximité
Architecture and Landscape: Proximity geographies
17:30-18:00 Coffee Break
18:00 - 18:45 Roundtable Discussion, chaired by Isabel Valverde, UPF
9:30 - Javier Maderuelo, Universidad de Alcalá y Centro Arte y Naturaleza (CDAN), Huesca
Lugar del Paisaje en el Arte Contemporáneo
Le lieu du paysage dans l´art contemporain
The Place of Landscape in Contemporary Art
10:15 - Federico López Silvestre, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Paisaje hoy. Apuntes de estética natural invertida
Le paysage aujourd´hui. Notes pour une esthétique naturelle inversée
Landscape today. Sketches for a reverse natural Aesthetics
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - Malcom Andrews, University of Kent
Landscape: An Aesthetic Ecology
El paisaje. Una ecología estética
Le Paysage. Une écologie esthétique
12:15 - Roundtable Discussion, moderated by Isabel Valverde, UPF
13:00 -14:00 Closing Session and Seminar Conclusions by Isabel Valverde, Antoni Luna and Joan Nogué
-Malcolm Andrews, professor of Victorian and Visual Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury. Editor of the journal The Dickesian, and author of Landscape and Western Art one of the most influential essays that reviews the representation of landscape in Western Culture since the Renaissance.
-Jean Marc Besse, philosopher and historian. Adjunt director of the UMR Géographies-Cités, head of research at the CNRS and faculty at Paris I and Paris VII. Memebere of the editorial board of Carnet de Paysage of École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage de Versailles and of l'Espace Geographique
-Daniela Colafranceschi, professor of landscape architecture at the Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria and author of different interventions in gardens of Italy and Spain. Director, since 2000, of the collection Land&Scape of the Editorial Gustavo Gili.
-Michael Jakob, professor at the Haute École du paysage, d'ingéniérie et the architecture (hepia) at Geneve, and at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Director and founder of the journal of comparative literature Compar(a)ison aand director among other of the collection Archigraphy Paysage of Infolio publishing.
Federico López Silvestre, Professor of the History of Aesthetics Ideas and PhD in Art History of Santiago de Compostela University. Coordinator (with María Luisa Sobrino Manzanares) of the work La construcción del paisaje of the Centro Galego of Contemporary Art (Santiago de Compostela) and co-director of the collection Paisaje y Teoría of Biblioteca Nueva.
-Javier Maderuelo, professor of landscape architecture at the Escuela de Arquitectura y Geodesia of Alacalá University. Art critic in different means, and director of the program Arte y Naturaleza and of the courses organized in the CDAN foundation of Huesca. Co-director of the collection Paisaje y Teoría of Biblioteca Nueva.
-Francesc Muñoz, professor of Geography at the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona, director of the Master program in landscape intervention and management. Director of the Observatorio de la Urbanización , and of the collection Palabra y Paisaje of Àmbit publishing.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Isabel Valverde, Professor of Art History at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Antoni Luna, Professor of Geography at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Joan Nogué, Professor of Geography at the Universitat de Girona and director of the , Observatori del Paisatge de Catalunya, Olot
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