Human action, over time, builds new landscapes on Earth, transforming nature into a cultural landscape. The inhabitation of the territory, sedimented by culture and prolonged use, materializes in architectures that translate the symbiosis between nature, culture and built landscapes.
Understanding cultural landscapes requires analyzing the articulation between urban, rural and natural realities, as well as recognizing the cultural, technical and technological diversities that have shaped the territories.
Questioning the reasons behind a city, street, garden or religious building allows us to understand not only its function, but also the values, beliefs and ideologies that have been inscribed in the built heritage.
What are the forms, expressions and legacies of architecture that continue to shape the contemporary Cultural Landscape over time?
As Fernand Braudel said, the landscape is the most resistant of realities. May this day therefore be an invitation to read, interpret and question the realities that we have constructed throughout our collective history.

1. The Construction of the Cultural Landscape: Processes, Times and Memories
Reflection on the ways in which human action over time has transformed the natural territory into cultural landscapes, analyzing the historical processes, social dynamics and layers of memory that are inscribed in space.

2. Vernacular Architectures and Traditional Techniques in the Formation of Heritage
Focus on local building practices, the knowledge passed down from generation to generation and the role of vernacular architecture in consolidating cultural identities and shaping inhabited landscapes.

3. Cities, Gardens and Public Spaces: Ideas of Nature and Culture
Debate on the conceptions of nature and culture expressed in the organization of urban spaces and gardens, understood as symbolic places of encounter between human artifice and the natural environment.

4. Religious Architectures and the Landscape of Memory
Analysis of religious architectures as fundamental elements in the construction of collective memory and in the relationship between the sacred, the territory and material culture.

5. Conserving and Interpreting the Cultural Landscape
Contemporary Challenges Discussion of strategies for the preservation, interpretation and revaluation of cultural landscapes in the face of the transformations imposed by urbanization, globalization and climate change.

Alexandra Trevisan – Porto School of Art (Portugal)
Alfredo Buccaro – Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Italy)
Ana Cristina Sousa – University of Porto (Portugal)
Ana Monteiro – University of Porto (Portugal)
Ana Velosa – University of Aveiro (Portugal)
Ascensión Hernández Martínez – Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)
Begoña Fernández Rodríguez – University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Domingos Tavares – University of Porto (Portugal)
Ewa Kuwiak – University of Lodz (Poland)
Francesca Capano – Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Italy)
Francisco Ollero Lobato – University of Pablo de Olavide – Seville (Spain)
Gonçalo Canto Moniz – University of Coimbra (Portugal)
Graciela María Viñuales – Centro de Documentación de Arquitectura Latinoamericana – CEDODAL (Argentina)
Inês Amorim – University of Porto (Portugal)
Joaquim Rodrigues dos Santos – University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Juan Manuel Monterroso Montero – University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Lino Augusto Tavares Dias – University of Porto (Portugal)
Lúcia Leitão – Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil)
Manuel Joaquim Moreira da Rocha – University of Porto (Portugal)
Margarida Tavares da Conceição – Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)
María Ángeles Fernández Valle – Universidad Pablo Olavide (Spain)
María del Pilar Biel Ibáñez – Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)
María del Pilar García Cuetos – University of Oviedo (Spain)
Maria João Neto – University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Maria Leonor Botelho – University of Porto (Portugal)
Maria Lurdes Craveiro – University of Coimbra (Portugal)
Mariana Zerbone Albuquerque – Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (Brazil)
Mário Barroca – University of Porto (Portugal)
Marta Peters Arriscado de Oliveira – University of Porto (Portugal)
Martha Fernández – Instituto Investigaciones Estéticas. UNAM (Mexico)
Massimo Visone – Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Italy)
Miguel Ángel Sorroche Cuerva – Universidad de Granada (Spain)
Nuno Resende – University of Porto (Portugal)
Nuno Senos – Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)
Renata Maria Almeida Martins – University of São Paulo (Brazil)
Teresa Calix – University of Porto (Portugal)
Valeria Bril – Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Virginia Bonicatto – Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina)

Alfredo Buccaro(CIRICE/ Italy)
Juan Manuel Monterroso Montero(IACOBUS/Spain)
Mariana Zerbone Albuquerque(RecLAB/ Brazil)
Manuel Joaquim Moreira da Rocha(CITCEM/ Portugal)
Sofia Nunes Vechina(CITCEM/ Portugal)

António José Oliveira (Portugal)
Bruno Aguiar (Brazil)
Santiago Caramés (Spain)
Sofia Vechina (Portugal)