INDOC. Documentation Centre about Art and Nature

Last places for Landscape and Territory course

June 12 is the deadline to register for this course, which is organised by the CDAN within the framework of the Thinking Landscape series. A limited number of places are available.

From June 23 to 27 lecturers who have won acclaim in Spain and internationally will gather in Huesca to examine relationships between landscape and territory from diverse perspectives, including those provided by landscape design, contemporary art, geography and town planning.

In addition to the lectures, roundtables and debates that will be held during the course, the programme also includes:

• An excursion to some of the contemporary artworks located at different points in the landscape of the province.

• A guided tour of The Construction of the Contemporary Landscape, conducted by the exhibition curators. This exhibition takes a look at the different ways landscape is now interpreted and the process by which it has been recovered in the arts over the postmodern period.

• A special schedule for accessing and making consultations at INDOC, the CDAN’s documentation centre, which focuses specifically on the relationships between art, nature and landscape.

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.

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: The photo at the top of the page shows a guided tour of the sculptures that belong to the Art and Nature collection-route. The visit took place during the Landscape and Art course (2007).

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