Second Congress on Limburg Landscape history, 31 August 2018
Key concepts as the landscape biography and the authored landscape will be discussed, new research paths opened which try to combine academic and local research with contemporary experience. The above-mentioned concepts will also be discussed in the context of current debates on and practices of landscape design. The congress will make clear that all issues related to landscape as heritage involve a wide variety of stakeholders and disciplines – both in research and in design.
The congress also includes a panel discussion on the issue of the chances and possibilities of the South-Limburg landscape as UNESCO-World Heritage from the angle of the landscape biography of a Cretaceous landscape through the ages. The conference will be concluded with the premiere of the TV-series on the history of the Limburg Landscape, a joint effort of L1, Het Limburgs Landschap and the LGOG.
Keynote speakers are: Dr. P.A.J. Caljé, Dr. N. Randeraad, Dr. E. Storms-Smeets and Ph.D. researcher M. Purmer.
A tour through the Castle and its historical gardens is included.
The conference is in Dutch.
Date: Friday, August, 31st
Time/Place: 10.00-17.30, Kasteel Arcen, Lingsforterweg 26, Arcen
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