Thematic areas
1. Cultural Landscapes, Museums and Heritage (Tangible
and Intangible)
• Memory and place
• Food and cultural landscapes
• Music and place
• Dance and place
• Spiritual/sacred/religious landscapes
• Language and place
• Ecomuseums and cultural landscapes
• Museums and cultural landscapes
• Heritage sites and cultural landscapes
• Archaeological heritage as cultural landscape
• Natural Heritage and cultural landscapes
2. Cultural Landscapes and Visual Culture
• art galleries/art museums and their place in the cultural
landscape
• artists and their relationship to specific places and communities?)
• landscape as art (i.e. gardens)
• ‘land art’ in and outside the landscape
• permanent and temporary art interventions in the landscape
• public art in the landscape
• art galleries and regional/national identities
• rock art and cultural landscapes
• Cultural landscapes and Virtual Reality
3. Cultural Landscapes, Identities, and Communities
• landscape as a part of international, regional, national,
or local identity
• cultural landscapes and cultural diversity
• exclusion from cultural landscapes
• public participation in landscapes
• sustainable communities and cultural landscapes
• conflicting uses of cultural landscapes
• diaspora and migration within or across cultural landscapes
• exile and concepts of “home” – taking
cultural landscape with you while leaving the geographical one behind
• place as intersection of different identities
• Inventing new cultural landscapes and alternative conceptions
of place
4. Cultural Landscapes, Tourism, and Economics
• Landscapes as economic resource
• Sustainability and landscapes
• Ethics of using cultural landscapes
• Balancing demands by tourists and local communities upon
cultural landscapes
• Tourism as a means of regeneration for the landscape
• Reinventing post-industrial landscapes as heritage landscapes
• Heritage industry and cultural landscapes:
• Entertainment sector and its impact on cultural landscapes
5. Cultural Landscapes and Architecture
• Cityscapes as cultural landscapes
• Coastal landscapes
• Rural landscapes
• Signature buildings and cultural landscapes
• The politics of listing architectural heritage
• Managing historic buildings
• Architecture and historic landscapes
• Vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes
6. Cultural Landscapes and Education
• Learning through cultural landscapes
• Teaching cultural landscapes
• Informal and formal learning systems and cultural landscapes
• Lifelong learning and cultural landscapes
• National curricula and cultural landscapes
• Working with UNESCO World Heritage Education Project
7. Cultural Landscapes, Management and Protection
• Funding cultural landscapes
• Management plans/strategies for protecting cultural landscapes
• Legislation and conventions (international, regional, and
national)
• Ethics and cultural landscapes
• Governments and Cultural Landscapes
• NGOs, International bodies and Cultural landscapes
• Charities and the management/protection of cultural landscapes
• Communities and their role in managing or protecting cultural
landscapes
• Managing conflicting interests/demands upon cultural landscapes
• Issues of ownership, control, and legal/ethical rights and
cultural landscapes
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