JPI kulturarv - Cultural Heritage in Landscape

The CheriScape project 2014-2016 (Cultural Heritage in Landscape) is a three-year exploration of the cultural, social and environmental connections between landscape and heritage in research, policy and practice. CHeriScape starts from the twin idea that cultural heritage is a foundation of landscape, and landscape is a framework within which heritage can be differently and more constructively understood, valued and used. The interconnection between the European Landscape Convention, the Faro Convention and the ESF/COST Science Policy Briefing ?Landscape in a Changing World? are a central frame of the project. CHeriScape arranged five conferences, to which keynote speakers and also policy makers and stakeholders are invited. Half of the conferences were arranged as poster presentations and discussions in smaller groups to involve as many participants as possible. The first CHeriScape conference was arranged in Ghent (Belgium) 1-2 July 2014. The topic of the conference was "Landscape as heritage in policy". It was inquired whether we needed the heritage concept. The need for defining the tensions in the relationship between landscape and heritage was also identified. The second CHeriScape conference took place in Amersfoort (the Netherlands) 5-7 November 2014. The conference theme was "Landscape as Heritage in science". The main issue was how to connect science to practice? In the last ten years the amount of scientific research available for practice has grown substantially, but that does not mean that it is always used in the best possible way. A second issue was about techniques such as GIS, and that there is a real danger over overlooking non-quantitative / intangible data in the analysis that are carried out. The third CHeriScape conference was organized and coordinated by the NIKU in cooperation with Bioforsk (NIBIO). The conference took place in Oslo 18-20 May 2015. This conference is the most important Norwegian contribution in the Cheriscape project. "Landscape and Community" was the topic of the conference and it aimed at discussing how landscape can create a structure within which communities can engage in decision making and participatory processes in planning. At the conference it seemed to be a broad agreement among the participants that both within landscape science and management there is a paradigm shift going on towards a stronger focus on the role of local communities. The question is not whether locals should be involved or not, but rather how it should be done, and what are the problems and pitfalls connected to it. The fourth CHeriScape conference took place in Madrid (Spain), 23-25 September 2015. The main topic for the conference was ?Facing Global Change through Landscape?, with a diverse approach based on practice-based perspectives and ideas. The conference explored the potential landscapes have in confronting the challenges of the major global changes. Issues such as tourist pressure, land abandonment and naturalization of anthropogenic landscapes were also highlighted. The fifth and concluding conference was arranged in Newcastle, Great Britain, 14-16 June 2016. The topic for this conference was ?Landscape in Imagination and the Virtual Future?. The conference focused on how futures that enfold from the past could be imagined through new forms of heritage and landscape representations, and how present and future landscapes could be shaped and constructed. As a part of the concluding phase of the CheriScape project, there was arranged a two-day Closing Workshop in Alden Biesen (Belgium), 8-9 November 2016. About 25 personally invited former CHeriScape-participants and the Cheriscape-team members attended the workshop. The main topic was to collect experiences and ideas of people who already have contributed to the Cheriscape work by attending one or several conferences. There were sessions, reflecting on what Cheriscape could mean and contribute to in the future. Key messages and compendium leaflets from all conferences will be officially released at the end of 2016 (latest at the beginning of 2017). The Cheriscape team is also working with drafts of scientific papers, focusing on main topics from the conferences. In all, NIKU is involved as co-author in four of the papers. Also NIBIO is involved in four of the papers. They will be published in the course of 2017.

The CHeriScape network, Cult ural Heritage in Landscape, starts from recognition that landscape is not merely a category of heritage, but a global frame within which heritage can be differently understood, cherished and protected. Landscape also offers wa ys to draw greater social, economic and environmental benefits from heritage. CHeriScape will uncover the natural connections that exist between the domains of landscape and heritage, both in research and policy terms, Seeing heritage through the lenses o f landscape allows heritage in the face of significant environmental and social change to be a solution not a problem. Our network will explore the interlocking spaces between two Council of Europe conventions: the European Landscape Convention and the Fa ro Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage to Society, to demonstrate how they align with and support each other. A third aspect of our thinking will be based on the ESF/COST Science Policy Briefing 'Landscapes in a Changing World'. CHeriScape's will arrange five large conferences, to which we will invite keynote speakers and also policy makers and stakeholders, and from which we will produce a suite of products aimed at strengthening the influence that landscape and heritage can have on both high-le vel and local environmental and social policy. To do this we have brought together a small but highly experienced and expert consortium, with a range of disciplines including (because landscape is one of the most interdisciplinary of fields of study) som e not normally associated with heritage. We are also acutely aware that landscape falls simultaneously into all three categories of heritage defined by the JPI; it is at one and the same time tangible and intangible, and increasingly its is being experien ced by many people through digital means. CHeriScape will therefore also use this rich concept of 'landscape' as a laboratory to closely examine the nature and potential of 'heritage'.