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Inimkonna seminarisarja järgmine esineja on professor Hannes Palang, kes
räägib teemal "The landscape playground". Seminar toimub kolmapäeval,
27. veebruaril kl 18-20 ruumis N315.----------Rohkem infot:We warmly
welcome you to the next seminar in the Inimkond series, where Professor
Hannes Palang will discuss a paper entitled "The landscape playground". The
seminar will take place on February 27th, 2013, from 6pm to 8pm, in N315
(Tallinn University Nova building).Abstract:Some years ago, Marc Antop
(2005) listed urbanisation and accessibility as two of the main factors
driving landscape change. Paul Claval (2005) has drawn our attention to the
fact that cultivating the land – which once was the main activity for
most of the people – is not seen any more as an act God would like. From
an area of everyday hard work, landscape has turned into a playground in
many senses. And tourism has a role to play here. First of all, we are
visiting places that formerly were beyond our reach. Due to that, places
treated as hostile or useless are now seen as providing educational,
scientific or even recreational value. I will elaborate this with the
example of boardwalks in Estonian bogs.Secondly, landscape is being used
for all sorts of recreational activities, games, adventures etc. Each of
them creates their own sign systems in the landscape, invisible for an
undedicated eye. Geocaching is one of such games. In this sense, landscape
acts similarly as in many aboriginal cultures – there are places that are
allowed for everyone and there are places, the secrets of which are known
only to the initiated ones. The initiation rites differ, though. And from
here there is a link to maps and mappings.Finally, I will dwell on
Olwig’s (2004) ideas about circulating reference: tourism creates images
of a landscape and those images start influencing the “reality”. Where
is the real landscape after all?About the speaker:Hannes Palang is director
of the Estonian Institute of Humanities, and he heads the Centre for
Landscape and Culture at Tallinn University. With degrees from Tartu and
Amsterdam, he is professor of human geography and involved in a large
number of research projects, editorial boards and professional and expert
bodies; for example, he is President of the Permanent European Conference
for the Study of the Rural Landscape. His past research ranges from
landscape diversity indexes to local participation and time layers. He has
been involved in many applied projects in planning valuable landscapes and
assessing their values. See also
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