Publicomos

Réf.

41499

Type

conference item

Titre

Landscape and memory : cultural landscapes, intangible values and some thoughts on Asia

Langues

English

Auteurs

Taylor, Ken

Date

2008

Pages

14 p.

Titre de conférence

16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’

Lieu de conférence

Québec, Canada

Date de conférence

29 sept – 4 oct 2008

Mots-clés

intangible heritage / World Heritage Convention / authenticity / integrity / Asia / World Heritage / cultural landscapes / operational guidelines / historic landscapes / World Heritage List / landscapes

Résumé en anglais

One of our deepest needs is for a sense of identity and belonging. A common denominator in this is human attachment to landscape and how we find identity in landscape and place. Landscape therefore is not simply what we see, but a way of seeing: we see it with our eye but interpret it with our mind and ascribe values to landscape for intangible – spiritual – reasons. Landscape can therefore be seen as a cultural construct in which our sense of place and memories inhere. Critical to this has been the increasing attention given to the study of cultural landscapes, even to the extent of recognition in 1992 of World Heritage Categories of outstanding cultural landscapes. The paper explores some of the associated ideas of landscape and memory and how landscape permeates much of our thinking of who we are with some focus on Asia as the cultural landscape idea gains ground in this region of the world.

Document joint

77-wrVW-272.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)