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Registration deadline for Landscape and Territory course nears

The course Landscape and Territory, which will run from June 23 to 27 in Huesca, is organised by the CDAN within the Thinking Landscape series.

This year's edition will bring together distinguished lecturers who have gained recognition in Spain and internationally for their work in the fields of landscape design, art, geography, land-use planning, and urbanism. The registration deadline is 12 June 2008 (places are limited).

Previous editions of this newsletter have provided information about the specialised course Landscape and Territory. Now, as the deadline for registration approaches, the CDAN’s digital newsletter offers a summary of key details about the course.

Landscape and Territory is the third specialised course in the Thinking Landscape series, which analyses five areas in relation to the concept of landscape in order to more clearly define what landscape is and how it relates to thought, art, territory, history, and heritage.

The courses, each of which is held over five consecutive days, are directed by Javier Maderuelo, art critic and professor of landscape architecture at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. This year's course, Landscape and Territory, will run from June 23 to 27.

As in previous years, the programme features lectures by distinguished specialists in the fields of art, urbanism and geography, round tables, and an excursion to visit some of the contemporary works created in the landscape of Huesca province.

In addition to participating in the educational programme, students enrolled in this year's course will have the opportunity to visit The Construction of the Contemporary Landscape, a major exhibition that will be at the CDAN while the course is on. The exhibition 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.

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

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. The photo on the right is from the presentation of the course Landscape and Art (2007), and the photo on the left, from one of the lectures for the course.

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