Research

RESEARCH FRAMEWORK

Landscapes and contacts are key words that combine the research on cross-cutting thematic areas that CEAACP prioritises in its strategic project.

The landscape in the global sense of territoriality framing the future of societies – whose approach invokes the reading of the long-term space-time dynamics of the facts of its construction – lends archaeology and art a more daring perspective than linear chronological interpretation, emphasising the present as a space-time inherited from a long process of formation and invoking heritage practices of preservation and enhancement.

Historical landscapes, assumed as present territorial heritage, constitute a superior object of multidisciplinary, transcultural and transnational research, while at the same time asserting themselves as a qualified heritage.

Contacts and dynamics of cultural reconfiguration, as phenomena of diverse origin, due to the conditions of greater or lesser freedom and spontaneity that characterise them and the geographies and times in which they occur, emerge as protagonists of rich processes of cultural dynamics in which the unthought of hybridisation phenomena play a relevant role in understanding new cultural expressions of identity of a mixed nature. The partiality of their representation in historiography calls for a recourse to the archives of the land to write the history of the men that writing did not consider and the cultural transits that it did not contemplate.

In the context of global reconfiguration, particularly in Europe, an integrated historical understanding of cultural contact processes contributes significantly to integration and inclusion policies.

Historic urban landscapes and rivers as cultural infrastructures are ideal contexts for comparative and multidisciplinary approaches, in which culture and the environment intersect in an interconnected way, actively complementing contemporary sustainability in association with communities.

Heritage is inherently and coherently complicit in this association. The understanding that what man has built over time is a heritage that belongs to the present, which is collectively its heir and faithful custodian, requires consistency in leveraging it as a lever for development at the service of communities.