Landscape Heritage

In Les Lieux de mémoire (1997), Pierre Nora argues that memory reveals itself more readily in space than in time, and more in its local representations than in chronicles and history. George Steiner, in The Idea of Europe (2004), sees landscape as one of the pillars of European cultural identity.

Landscape—the frame of lived experience and a reality at once natural and cultural—is one of the densest forms in which collective memory is inscribed. Rooted in a particular place, it embodies time, ways of dwelling, work, gestures, knowledge and the relationships a community builds with the natural world.

Over five sessions it addresses central questions in the contemporary relationship between society and landscape: the memory and identity of places, the relationship between nature and culture, care for the Earth, intergenerational responsibility, the transformation of landscapes and our capacity to imagine more balanced futures.

Landscape is understood as a common good, a place of belonging and a space of knowledge where memory, experience, culture and nature meet.