Places and Landscape in a Changing World Companion (original) (raw)

Place and people: landscape as a basis of development and preservation of cultural identity

Technical Transactions, 2018

Processes of globalization and urbanization are the main factors of changes in our environment and social foundations. Culture, traditions, customs, mythology are tightly bonded with the geographical environment and the land itself, which also defined the way of economic activity and the lifestyle of inhabitants. Identity may become apparent through landscape in two principal ways. On the one hand, landscape can represent and identify the certain culture by means of its visual image. On the other hand, the manifestation of deep links of landscape and its inhabitants by means of reviling emotional, visual and semantic connections of man to a land, affords to strengthen people' s feeling of belonging, rooting and thus safety, which is exceptionally essential in our era of non-stable uncertain modernity.

The Role of the Landscape in the Identity Generation Process

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013

Landscape science was developed as a way of understanding and interpreting the human being in its relation with nature. Now, the concept of landscape is related to the social and cultural dynamics of daily environment. The present moment is a complex mixture of political, cultural, social relationships, influenced by demographic explosion, urbanization without limits, the extinction of natural resources and the emergence of an ecological mass consciousness. This paper wants to debate the importance of the landscape -natural or anthropogenic, in the process of establishing an identity in the context of globalization and cultural homogeneity. In a time when physical contacts are replaced by virtual contacts, communication is overused until it loses the value of the concept itself, making room for superficiality. In a word of mobility, dematerialization, communication, identity and character are essential. Identity is generated by that quality of a certain space which, through the natural or anthropogenic configuration it has, makes the individual aware of the place where he lives, giving him a sense of belonging. The nature or the urban landscape often offered significant elements that have been assimilated by the community, who frequently identified with them. Currently, the notion of landscape becomes ambiguous, complicated by the overlapping between different structures, images and various features that are often opposing from the point of view of typology. The resulting landscape is characterized by multiplicity, variety and structural and spatial discontinuity. There is a need for significant images, for a spatial identity that may become representative for society. The existing landscape -sometimes lacking form and incoherentneeds to regain its identity by reinventing itself. Spatial coherence is an essential condition for building a local character and an identity in the context of the current informational and communicational era through a "brand" -an internationally recognizable concept in the age of globalization.

Recovering Identity Through Landscape in A Month in the Country

"Land and Identity. Theory, Memory, Practice". Spatial Practices 13. Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2012

The series Spatial Practices belongs to the topographical turn in cultural studies and aims to publish new work in the study of spaces and places which have been appropriated for cultural meanings: symbolic landscapes and urban places which have specific cultural meanings that construct, maintain, and circulate myths of a unified national or regional culture and their histories, or whose visible ironies deconstruct those myths. Taking up the lessons of the new cultural geography, papers are invited which attempt to build bridges between the disciplines of cultural history, literary and cultural studies, and geography.

Landscape – The Basic Element of Spatial Culture

Unity and Diversity in Knowledge Society, I, (Teodor DIMA, Cornelia Margareta GĂŞPĂREL, Dan Gabriel SÎMBOTIN eds.), 2013

The space organizing and rationalizing processes are based on the notion of landscape, which can be generally defined as the totality of the space observed at a certain moment, by a given individual or community. Therefore, the landscape is generated by the observer and, as such, it can be classified as a representation. The existence of the landscape is independent of both its comprehensiveness and its similarity with the physical space. Locationally, the landscape exists independently of its coincidence to the space it represents, as the process of observation creates its own set of references/coordinates. As a function on perception, the landscape can be regarded as a phenomenon and thus non-unique. This multiplicity is the result of both multiple observers and multiple modes of perception. Once observed, the landscape is integrated within the cultural paradigm through rational or irrational mental “operational chains”, becoming thus established through its appropriation by the community and its members. The appropriation process is fundamental to the infinite mental and material iterations of the “first” landscape, resulting in second-order landscapes that are reproduced physically as cultural landscapes or mentally as imaginary ones. It is worth noting that the reproductive process is independent of the means of perception, the result taking always a topographical/geographical form, whether the space is observed through the sensory organs, measured geometrically or perceived irrationally through revelation or during the shamanic trance. After all, the landscape of Paradise includes rivers, even though these are (gustatory) made of milk and honey and it possesses climate, even though its perfection is defined according to a human sensorybound index of thermal comfort.

The communicative dimension of landscape. A theoretical and applied proposal

The fusion of knowledge, the interrelationship of disciplines and, finally, the interaction of learning fields, provides new challenges for an auto denominated global society. The contemporary value of landscape, linked to the patent commodification of culture, the commercial construction of identities, the triumph of inauthenticity, of the induced representation or the economy of symbolism, open up great prospects for studying the symbolic value of landscape. The rapprochement of geographical praxis to the study of space intangibles, linked to the discovery of emotional geographies, besides the growing interest of communicational sciences on the territorial discourse, allow us to envisage a communicative study of landscape based on a fusion of geographical and communicational knowledge. The balancing of the variables: geography, landscape, emotion and communication, enables the progress towards analysing the emotionalisation of space to discern its intangible value, which emerges from the application of different communication techniques.

LIFE AND LIVING THROUGH NEWER SPECTRUM OF GEOGRAPHY

This edited volume is a collection of papers from various eminent researchers throughout the Country. The book entitled “Life and Living through Newer Spectrum of Geography” including 18 papers covering various discipline of Geography “Life and Living through Newer Spectrum of Geography” has been the burning issues of discussion in Geography over the past few decades. This book is the collection of various issues and problems from different parts of India. The edited book has been divided into three sections. The first section is Ecology and Environment issues in Geography and has 5(five) research articles covering different ecological and environmental issues. The Second Section of this book discuss various economic issues which is the most important and burning problem all over the World and this section has 7 (seven) articles which are deals various economic related issues. The Last Section in this book deals with social problem in Geography and including 6 (six) research papers which are mainly discussing the social problem an Indian perspective.

Ubiquitous Terrains: Architectural Place and the Poetics of Global Digital Wireless

ACSA West Central Meeting, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, October 23-26, 2008 (Urbana-Champaign, Illinois), 2008

Since the mid-19th Century, the scope of urbanization has precipitated in unprecedented population growth and social change. In addition to the impact of such urban infrastructure as expressways, electrical grids, water treatment plants, sewage systems, and municipal landfills, an ever-increasing amount of human life plays out along wires or gets transmitted along wireless frequencies. These pages observe the implications on architecture in a wireless world as we edge toward and beyond globally prevalent third-generation digital wireless networks. These verses speculate on how physical places will change in response to unlimited, pervasive wireless networks accessible through integrated, high-bandwidth mobile devices.