Cultural Landscapes: A Heritage in Transition

Management: Prof. Dr. Michael North und Dr. Antje Kempe

Disciplines: History and Art History

The landscape is an intersection between nature and culture, material and immaterial heritage, biological and cultural diversity. It can thus be understood as an archive of correlative monuments, a place as well as a holistic area of cultural practices. The aim is to investigate cultural landscapes in the Baltic Sea area regarding their cultural and material conditions to understand the cultural heritage as construction of identity-creating intentions, and as a result of economic practices and ecological processes. 

Therefore, in a diachronic approach that includes both a historical and contemporary perspective, the construction of maritime sites of memory regarding garden and landscape design in the Baltic Sea region will be a matter of examination.