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Registration period for Landscape and Territory course still open

The registration period for the Landscape and Territory course to be held next June remains open. The quality of this year's course is guaranteed by the success of the 2006 and 2007 editions. Landscape and Territory will feature speakers who are acclaimed for their work in Spain and internationally.

The deadline for registration is June 13. Students will also be able to enjoy The Construction of the Contemporary Landscape, a CDAN exhibition that is closely related to subject matter of the course.

Anyone interested in taking part in the CDAN course has until June 13 to register. The course, which is the third in the Thinking Landscape series, will run from 23 to 27 June 2008.

The speakers participating in this series are recognised for their work on landscape at the national and international level, within their specific areas of expertise. They are specialists in landscape design, art, geography, land-use planning, and town planning.

List of speakers and lectures

·         Antonio Ansón
Writer
Thinking territory, dreaming a landscape

·         Enric Batlle

Lecturer in the Department of Town Planning and Land-Use Planning, Higher Technical School of Architecture, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and director of the Barcelona Landscape Gardening Biennial
The new landscapes of the metropolis: park–corridor–motorway–landfill

·         Fernando Castro Flórez

Lecturer on aesthetics and art theory at the Autonomous University of Madrid and art critic

The art (of getting lost) in a forest

·         Ignacio Español

Lecturer on landscape and environmental assessment at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and consultant to the Council of Europe on landscape, environment and infrastructures
Landscape as perception of the dynamics and rhythms of territory

·         Josefina Gómez Mendoza

Professor of geography at the Autonomous University of Madrid and member of the Spanish Royal Academy of History
The geographer’s gaze: from knowledge to landscape management

·         Yves Luginbühl

Director of the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France

Social representations of landscape in Europe and how these have evolved

·         Javier Maderuelo

Professor of landscape architecture, University of Alcalá
Ways of seeing the world: from cartography to landscape

·         Neus Miró

Art critic and exhibition curator
The filmic dimension of landscape

·         Catherine Mosbach

Landscape architect

À l'endroit à l'envers

·         Joan Nogué

Professor of human geography at the University of Girona and director of the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia
On the edges: the landscapes we do not see

·         Francisco Pellicer

Lecturer at the University of Zaragoza and deputy director of content for Expoagua Zaragoza 2008
Zaragoza 2008: the metamorphosis of a landscape

·         Daniel Zarza

Architect and professor of town planning at the University of Alcalá
From land-use planning to landscape

The Construction of the Contemporary Landscape

The Construction of the Contemporary Landscape – an exhibition curated by Javier Maderuelo and María Luisa Martín de Argila – will be running at the CDAN while the course is on and will complement its subject matter. The show will take a look at the different ways landscape is now interpreted and how landscape has been recovered in the arts over the postmodern period.

Visitors to the exhibition will be able to enjoy works by Isamu Noguchi, Robert Smithson, Richard Long and Alberto Carneiro, among others. Within the context of modernity, The Construction of the Contemporary Landscape looks at pioneers in the recovery of landscape, the role of the artwork in the place, and the gaze that constructs the space. The exhibition covers photography, painting and landscape architecture.

More information and registration

CDAN. Centro de Arte y Naturaleza de la Fundación Beulas
Avenida Dr. Artero, s/n
22004-Huesca

Tel.: +34 974 23 98 93
Fax: +34 974 22 37 62
E-mail: colecciones@cdan.es

·         Landscape and Territory course CDAN web site (registration)

Source: texts, CDAN; Photograph in the upper right aims to Landscape and Art course (2007). Students visit the sculpture Árboles como arqueología (Trees as Archaeology) by Fernando Casás.

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