LANDSCAPE TOGETHER

Farol dos Ventos (Serra das Talhadas) Itineraries of landscape art in Cortiçada, Chão de Galego, Proença-a-Nova. Authors: Marta Aguiar, Mariana Costa e Sofia Marques de Aguiar. Photo credits: Mag – Marques de Aguiar

Landscape Together is an European project funded by Creative Europe (cooperation, medium scale), starting in February of 2023 in an intense cooperation between 17 international partners (Spain, France, Germany, Italy and Belgium) and a pilot territory in the center of Portugal.

Between 2023 and 2026, the Project Landscape Together will create a dialogue between heritage and contemporary art in the pilot territory, through a transdisciplinary expert network working on Cultural Mediation, Environment Development, Sustainable Design, Art Appropriation, and Communication. This evidence-based methodology is deepened through workshops, exhibitions and talks in strategic places of this network (e.g., Paris, Berlin, San Sebastian, Milano, Brussels). Landscape Together is a singular project which proposes to find innovative and concrete answers for urgent questions: how can art and culture lead to sustainable longterm solutions that contribute to the process of settlement of rural territories and that communicate effective answers for the challenges related to the consequences of climate change.

Landscape Together partners are Museo Chillida Leku (Spain), Direção Regional de Cul-tura do Centro (Portugal), Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco (Applied Arts, Agrarian, and Education – Portugal), KHBT studio (Germany), Portuguese municipalities: Proença-a-Nova, Oleiros, Sertã, Pedrógão Grande and Idanha-a-Nova, Politecnico di Milano (Architecture Department, Italy), Universidade de Coimbra (Architecture Department, Portugal), Atelier Yok Yok (France), Time&Place Consulting (Belgium), Turismo Centro de Portugal.

Landscape Together (LT) promotes the cooperation and mobility of more than 90 european artists and their works in a compromised relationship with the communities, with intentions set on transforming this experience in a replicable model. LT Model will constitute itself as a tool to other communities who look to regain a sense of belonging to a place, to landscape, to culture. This project is found upon reflection of tested evidence with 16 interdisciplinary events, more than 70 workshops, 8 cultural itineraries, 18 artistic residencies, 2 permanent art pieces, 4 summer courses, 20 creative talks, 8 exhibitions in 6 countries and the Toolkit LT Model. Landscape Together intersects experts experience and institutions in key areas for longterm territorial transformation anchored on its citizens, with Cultural Mediation, tangible and intangible Heritage, Artistic Creation and Communication. In Cultural Mediation, with the development of educational programs and activation of projects promoting a fruitive integration of the arts and landscape, with the Museo Chillida Leku (Spain).