Transcript The sacred landscape

CULT-RURAL
THEME 1: CULTURAL LANDSCAPES
The interaction between rural communities and the natural
environment
SCENARIO
UNIT 1. Signs and symbols: primeval
relationships
UNIT 2 Exploitation of nature for
productive purposes
UNIT 3. Adaptation of buildings to the
landscape
UNIT 4. Memory and future
UNIT 1. Signs and symbols: primeval relationships

Myths and popular beliefs
Water and fairies
Landmarks and heroes

Toponymy

Sacred trees, rocks etc
UNIT 2 Exploitation of nature for productive
purposes
Cultivating the land
 The terraced landscape (drystone walls)
 Agricultural tools connected to changes in
the landscape
 Animal farming - Nomadic life
Energy
 windmills and wind generator
 water mills and dams
Circular buildings
 Huts made of wood and foliage
 Stone made constructions using the vaulting
systems
Many examples date back to the Neolithic
Greece: Dimini and Sesklo
Cyprus: Choirokitia
Used as
nomadic family houses
temporal accommodation
working spaces
UNIT 3. Adaptation of buildings to the landscape
Use of materials and methods of building
Circular building (mud, straw, stone)
Bio-climatic construction
Aesthetic adaptation of settlements and built
complexes to the landscape
UNIT 4. Memory and future
 The landscape dictates lifestyle, movement,
aesthetics of people
Movement (Dances), materials (textiles)
 Landscape as souvenir or advertisement
 Landscape in Art (utopian, futuristic,
classical etc)
 Challenges and prospects
 Dangers (fires, floods, drought, etc)
 Destruction from human intervention (buildings,
roads, blockage or re-direction of rivers, streams
etc)
Exhibition layout