Florence - Firenze, 20/10/2010

In view of the 10^th anniversary of the European Landscape Convention, that will be celebrated in Florence (Italy) on 20 October 2010, UNISCAPE and LANDSCAPE EUROPE are organising the scientific conference Living Landscape to discuss in depth the merits of landscape science at the forefront of integrated research in a rapidly changing spatial environment.

The conference  will be held on 18-19 October 2010 in Florence. The aim is to initiate a well prepared debate in order to define clear recommendations and guidelines from the scientific community to be presented to the audience of the official meeting on 20 October 2010.

 The conference is supported by the authors of the text of the European Landscape Convention, and will be realised in close consultation with the Commission on Cultural Heritage and Landscape (CDPATEP) of the Council of Europe.

Please find below the call for paper of the conference. The deadline for abstract submission is on 15 January 2010.

For any further detail, you can contact:

UNISCAPE Head Office

Villa Medicea di Careggi, Viale G. Pieraccini 15, 50139 Florence (Italy)

EMAIL livinglandscape@uniscape.eu

PHONE +39 055 4221535 FAX +39 055 4486511

WEB www.uniscape.eu www.eurolandscape.net

Call for paper

Aim of the conference is to discuss cutting-edge research results at the crossroads of sciences and humanities, design and empiricism. This is the occasion to discuss interdisciplinary contributions explicitly referring to the principles of the Landscape Convention: what has science contributed to the implementation of the European Landscape Convention?

And what are the topics for the future of European landscape?

Four themes are chosen for the parallel sessions:

·         perception studies

·         landscape identification and typology

·         effects of policy development on landscape

·         and participation studies.

The conference language is English.

Papers will be prepared in advance, and selected as a basis for the debate in the conference.

The results of the debate will be presented to the political audience present for the Florence+10 event on 20 October.

After the conference the papers will be updated and published in scientific journals.

Scientific Committee

Prof. Marc Antrop,

Prof. Gian Franco Cartei, Prof. Michael Dower, Prof. Almo Farina, Prof. Yves Luginbühl, Prof. Carlo Magnani, Prof. Bas Pedroli, Prof. Michel Prieur, Prof. Annalisa

Calcagno Maniglio, Dott. Riccardo Priore, Prof. Florencio Zoido

Programme outline

Monday 18 October 2010: morning plenary opening session

                                                     afternoon 2 parallel sessions

Tuesday 19 October 2010: morning 2 parallel sessions

                                                     afternoon plenary concluding session

It will also be organized a Landscape Master Class in parallel for post-graduate students.

Time frame

·         15 January 2010: submission of abstracts

·         February 2010: invitation to prepare full papers

·         30 April 2010: submission of full papers

·         May 2010: peer review of papers, selection of the 30 most innovative papers other papers will be published in proceedings

·         June – August 2010: revision of the 30 papers

·         September 2010: submission of revised papers