Landscapes and the territorial project. Notions, methodologies and experiences

Abstract

First, I ask Joaquín Sabaté about the conceptual, methodological and historical dimensions that arise between landscapes and projects. As a researcher he analyzes the scope of the cultural landscape from a theoretical approach; as an experienced professor he deals with the challenges and relevant themes that several design workshops pose. He highlights the opportunity given by cultural landscapes as a resource for local development. Then, I ask him to focus on landscape awareness based on his previous research experience and the setting up of a retrospective exhibition of an artist like César Manrique. The work of this artist has inspired Lanzarote’s landscape, which, in turn, his own works contribute to shape. Finally, I ask him to specify the dilemmas which territorial arrangement faces in an uncertainty time taking into account factors such as climate change, large-scale expansion of cities, transformation of mobility patterns and the recent increasing acceleration of social and economic inequalities in an urbanized world. Sabaté sets the landscape-project equation within the broad agenda of issues and problems that challenge the knowledge and practices of architecture and urbanism.