landscape ambassador seminar

Manuel Casa Branca is a teacher and journalist in Montemor who started an artist's education some years ago. Before he went to LIsbon, he had painted "science fiction", and when he got to the city, he realized that he needed to deal with his native countryside,...

As a habit now, the day started by Julia Carolino’s presentation about how to access local identity related to the perception of the landscape. This ethnological approach was a good frame to help students t drive better their enquiries and interviews...

This year the Landscape Ambassadors count with CEAI (Centro de Estudos da Avifauna Ibérica) as a partner. CEAI is developing the Ecoserviços project in the are of Monfurado and for that reason was able to provide some base information and knowledge about...

Theresa has built a super funny dice, concerning some landscape subjects. This weekend she and some other students tried it in the local market of Montemor-o-Novo and in the street. The results were great! In the beggining people seemed a little suspicious...

This morning the weather was fine, sunny and not to cold. A good thing after the sunday storm. The day started by a presentation of Isabel Ramos, about agricultural public policies in Europe and their consequences on the landscape. A very interesting...

Representing landscape dynamics needs to find documents that can show changes. We found some old views from Montemor-o-Novo and we started to reproduce them nowadays. We placed those pictures in the blog. We propose to you a “treasure hunting”. You could...

About what each discipline pays attention in the landscape ? It was one of the aims of the blind landscape exercise to demonstrate that the same landscape doesn’t offer the same matter of interest for everybody. For Slovenian foresters, it was the first...

After the nice evening spent in Evora with local food and specific songs, it was a necessity to have a rest. The morning was free and everybody took profit of this break to recharge their power and to treat little personal affairs. After a short lunch,...

Could these pictures inspire someone to make some contemporary ones? Representations of land-use practices today: birdwatching, hunting, cycling, modern farming practices, ...? I found these on the outside of the market-place building in the center og...

The Ocean at Comporta and the students....