Landscape Together

The Landscape Together (LT) project aims to provide innovative responses to the urgent question: how can Art and Culture lead to sustainable solutions against the issues of depopulation and climate change?

Through Creative Thinking and Laboratory Actions developed in cooperation with strategic partners from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, this project implements a community method through art and landscape, aiming to create a pioneering case study of the challenges posed by the European Green Deal and disseminate the New European Bauhaus movement.

LT promotes cooperation and mobility among over 90 artists and their works, within a committed relationship with communities, transforming this experience into a replicable model. The LT Model is a tool to enhance the quality of life in depopulated regions struggling to regain a sense of belonging and meaning concerning their place, landscape, and heritage, increasingly affected by the consequences of climate change.

LT is an evidence-based method, featuring 16 interdisciplinary events, over 70 workshops, eight cultural visits, 18 artist residencies, two permanent artworks, four training camps, 20 lectures, eight exhibitions across six countries, and a Toolkit. Between experimentation and reflection, the partners will develop new solutions for better living spaces with citizens and communities, resulting in sustainable environment and construction outcomes, and contemporary creations that integrate tangible and intangible heritage.

This transformation strategy is anchored in a vast network of participants, empowering over 500 students and reaching more than 8,000 visitors.

What questions are raised by at-risk communities with artists and creatives that lead to sustainable solutions? By the end of the project, the LT Model will define sustainable strategies, a tested methodology, and a range of innovative solutions to inspire and empower other stakeholders to assist at-risk communities worldwide through art and culture.

Funding:

• CREA-CULT-2022-COOP-2 (EU action grants in the field of Culture under the Creative Europe Programme)
• Topic: CREA-CULT-2022-COOP-2
• Type of action: CREA-LS
• Project ID: 101100065

Consortium:

Marques de Aguiar, Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Lda (MAG-Marques de Aguiar) [Coordinator], Hauser and Wirth San Sebastian SL (Chillida Leku), Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), University of Coimbra (UCOIMBRA), Atelier YokYok (YokYok), KHBT GbR (KHBT GbR), Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco (IPCB), Regional Tourism Entity of Central Portugal (Turismo Centro de Portugal), Municipality of Idanha-a-Nova (CMIN), Municipality of Oleiros (Municipality of Oleiros), Municipality of Pedrógão Grande (Municipality of Pedrógão Grande), Municipality of Proença-a-Nova (Municipality of Proença-a-Nova), Municipality of Sertã (CMS), Glenn Cezanne (Time & Place Consulting), B.A.U. Higher Education Services gGmbH (Berlin International University of Applied Sciences), Regional Directorate of Culture of the Center (DRCC)

UC Researchers:

• Adelino Gonçalves
• Margarida Relvão Calmeiro

Based at:

• Marques Aguiar | DARQ