Landscape has changed its meaning over the years until it has been translated, nowadays, into the set of imprints left on the territory by the different communities and individuals who share it, overlapping with those of the physical genesis of the territory itself and those corresponding to the transformations to which the living community is alien. In short, it is a set of footprints encoded by the system of meanings. Thus, the landscape will be the set of relations to which these imprints correspond as perceptible manifestations of life: relations that develop between individuals of the same community, between individuals of different communities, between different communities, collectively, and between all of them and the territory. Relationships that involve an effort to survive, a mechanism to ensure the survival of the community, a gesture of protection from previous generations to the next. The marks, in themselves, are trivial (they correspond to the marks caused by simple, everyday, often automatic and involuntary gestures).
The reasons behind such gestures are equally mundane (surviving, living, appropriating space, protecting children, trampling, running, jumping, mating). This means that landscape should be considered a complex representation of the processes taking place on a territory and the historical synthesis of past processes that can be objectively described through the study of the characteristics of the territory, communities and their relationships.
Transmitting landscapes is also something else: it is to create the conditions for building the landscapes of the future, the landscapes in which our children and grandchildren will live, it is to transmit to them, physically, the landscapes we have been able to create
Initiative organized in collaboration with Mart.
