CULT-RURAL THEME 1: CULTURAL LANDSCAPES The interaction between rural communities and the natural environment

SCENARIO UNIT 1. Signs and symbols: primeval relationships UNIT 2 Exploitation of nature for productive purposes UNIT 3. Adaptation of buildings to the landscape UNIT 4. Memory and future

UNIT 1. Signs and symbols: primeval relationships  Myths and popular beliefs Water and fairies Landmarks and heroes  Toponymy  Sacred trees, rocks etc

UNIT 2 Exploitation of nature for productive purposes Cultivating the land  The terraced landscape (drystone walls)  Agricultural tools connected to changes in the landscape  Animal farming - Nomadic life Energy  windmills and wind generator  water mills and dams

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

UNIT 3. Adaptation of buildings to the landscape Use of materials and methods of building  Circular building (mud, straw, stone)  Bio-climatic construction Aesthetic adaptation of settlements and built complexes to the landscape

UNIT 4. Memory and future  The landscape dictates lifestyle, movement, aesthetics of people Movement (Dances), materials (textiles)  Landscape as souvenir or advertisement  Landscape in Art (utopian, futuristic, classical etc)  Challenges and prospects Dangers (fires, floods, drought, etc) Destruction from human intervention (buildings, roads, blockage or re-direction of rivers, streams etc)

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