Living Landscape: The European Landscape Convention in research perspective Florence, Italy, 18-19 October 2010

Scientific Conference

What has science contributed to the implementation of the European Landscape Convention? And what are the topics for the future of European landscape? The 10th anniversary of the Florence Convention is occasion to discuss in depth the merits of landscape science at the forefront of integrated research in a rapidly changing spatial environment. Interdisciplinary contributions explicitly referring to the principles of the Landscape Convention are especially welcomed.

Inspiring academic debate

Aim of the conference is to discuss cutting-edge research results at the crossroads of sciences and humanities, design and empiricism. Papers will be prepared in advance, and selected as a basis for the debate in the conference. The results of the debate will be presented to the political audience present for the celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the ELC on 20 October. All papers and posters received timely will be published in Conference Proceedings, available at the Conference itself.
After the conference the papers will be updated and as much as possible published in scientific journals.

Conference language is English.

Organisation

The conference is a joint initiative of UNISCAPE and LANDSCAPE EUROPE.
It is a next step in the EUROSCAPE2020 process launched by LANDSCAPE EUROPE in 2008. It is at the same time the first major scientific event promoted by UNISCAPE. Florence is chosen as venue because it hosts the celebrations of the ELC; it is also the seat of UNISCAPE.

Scientific Committee

Prof. Marc Antrop, Prof. Gian Franco Cartei, Prof. Sasa Dobricic, Prof. Michael Dower, Prof. Almo Farina, Prof. Yves Luginbühl, Prof. Carlo Magnani, Prof. Analisa Calcagno Maniglio, Dr. Bas Pedroli, Prof. Michel Prieur, Dott. Riccardo Priore, Prof. Florencio Zoido.

For further information and registrations visit www.uniscape.eu

or contact:

UNISCAPE Head Office
Villa Medicea di Careggi, Viale G. Pieraccini 15, 50139 Florence (Italy)
EMAIL livinglandscape@uniscape.eu
PHONE +39 055 4221535 FAX +39 055 4486511
WEB www.uniscape.eu; www.eurolandscape.net

final programme
poster

International Conference "Landscape in town, town in landscape". Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, 11-12 November 2010

European Landscape Convention as a new challenge for urban and peri-urban landscape.

The international conference within the CEE region is organized at the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the European Landscape Convention opening for signature (Florence, 2000), implementation of European Landscape Convention and successful realization of UrbSpace project supported from Central Europe Program and financed by European Regional and Development Fund.

The main objective of the conference is to increase awareness of NGOs and regional authorities, as ones of the key players, about the principles of the European Landscape Convention connection with urban and peri-urban landscape and urban environment.

Dissemination of information on landscape protection, planning and management will be another goal. The special emphasis will be put on the urban landscape management and initiation of a new cooperation among the different stakeholders which need to be involved to improve the implementation process of the convention in CEE countries.

Organizers:

Ekopolis Foundation and Slovak Environmental Agency

in cooperation with:RECEP-ENELC and CIVILSCAPE

For further information on the conference visit: www.ekopolis.sk or the programm

International Seminar on "Fringes. The Landscapes of the Periphery"

The international seminar "Fringes. The Landscapes of Periphery", organised by Observatori del Paisatge in collaboration with RECEP-ENELC and Institut de Cultura de la Ciutat d'Olot, will be held at Casal Marià, Olot, 11 - 12 November 2010.

Presentation

Peripheries act as fringes, interfaces between different geographical realities and landscape configurations. They are not only the unforeseen and undesired result of a centre that is growing and needs to expand, with no regard to where or how. The periphery is more than just the perimeter of a centre; it is also, and above all, a threshold between different territorial (and sometimes mental) realities, with increasing prominence. Too often, peripheries are untidy, unfinished landscapes with negative connotations for the town of which they form part. As the European Landscape Convention states, this has repercussions on social well-being, since quality of life is directly linked to the quality of the landscape. To understand the logic and the idiosyncrasy of peripheries requires a great variety of gazes, from art to literature, from music to cinema, from photography to architecture, from geography to sociology, from town planning to ecology. To act in the periphery, we need a substantial change in the space and time scale to which we are accustomed, and we need to understand that its social and symbolic (and even landscape) yardsticks are different. The gaze towards the town from the periphery is unusual, but enormously suggestive, because it offers us guidelines for interpreting contemporaneity that are difficult to perceive from the centre. From the interdisciplinary perspective and the openness to new ideas that have characterised the activity of the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia since its beginnings, on this occasion we intend to place ourselves, in collaboration with the RECEP-ENELC and the Institut de Cultura de la Ciutat d'Olot, at the very heart of the periphery, and these hybrid fringes that act as thresholds will serve us to put forward new forms of intervention and management, new landscape yardsticks, and new alternative readings to the usual hegemonic ones.

Languages: Catalan, Spanish and Italian.

Registration: As of 15 September.

For any information, please visit the seminar website.