CULT-RURAL

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CULT-RURAL
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Aim of the exhibition

• Landscape as a human perception
• Examine the various landscape readings through
  the prism of
• Structure and functionality
• Symbolism
• Aesthetics
• Self-identification of a man with his landscape
• All aspects are examined in accordance to
  sustainable development in the way that if people
  do not understand the landscape as a whole and if
  they do not see themselves as part of it, they
  will not either protect it or use it sustainably
  in the future.

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The sacred landscape

• Popular beliefs that reflect the relation of
  humans with nature

• The element of water
• Associated with
• fairies, nymphs
• myths
• the idea of immortality

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The sacred landscape

• The tree and the forest
• Adoration and worshipping of trees
• the holy tree
• the holy forest
• the holy grove
• Examples
• Myrtia (Myrtus Communis), Olive tree

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The harmonious landscape

• The circular buildings
• They are met in various places in Europe
• Land uses
• Wise use of natural resources and energy
• Terracing
• Landscape colour (yellow-green for collards and
  turnips, light blue for flux, purple for
  lavender)

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Circular buildings

• Huts made of wood and foliage
• Stone made constructions using the vaulting
  systems
• Many examples date back to the Neolithic
• Greece Dimini and Sesklo
• Cyprus Choirokitia
• Used as
• nomadic family houses
• temporal accommodation
• working spaces

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The dominated and ruined landscape

• Fires
• Tourism

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The landscape of memory

• Myths
• Legends
• Historical facts
• Heroes

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snowdome
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The utopian and futuristic landscape

• The landscape that we hope to inherit
• Usually a healthy, harmonious, friendly and
  idyllic landscape
• The landscape that we are afraid that we will
  inherit
• Catastrophic events and land deterioration that
  drive us to a pessimistic view of a landscape,
  usually hostile and dark

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• Exhibition layout

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