Landscape, Territories & Mobilities

Mobility is linked to understanding the landscape and to the production of representations of the territory. Routes and means of communication guide movement and anchor it to fixed or semi-fixed points, taking on diverse forms according to historical and pre-historical times.

From a hodographic perspective, the route encompasses both the act of walking and forms part of the landscape, bearing social, artistic and heritage significance. Maps, drawings and, subsequently, photography operate as means of transmitting and communicating these individual and collective experiences, reinforcing the sense of territory, place and transformations.

The session welcomes transdisciplinary and anthropological approaches addressing: (1) short, medium and long-distance exchanges; (2) creation, incorporation and maintenance of routes; (3) routes and places in territorial definition; (4) journey anchorage points; (5) landscapes in painting and photography; (6) landscapes described in texts; (7) territories in the longue durée, integrating ecosystem approaches and their correlative technological, sociopolitical and ideological transformations.