PALIMPSEST – Heritage Landscapes: Creative Drivers for Sustainable Living Heritage Landscapes
PALIMPSEST – Heritage Landscapes: Creative Drivers for Sustainable Living Heritage Landscapes
Generating values through art for sustainable living in landscapes
The PALIMPSEST project focuses on identifying and developing culturally embedded practices that are environmentally friendly. It responds to the urgent call for action arising from the realization of the imbalance in human-nature interactions, focusing particularly on climate challenges and the transition to sustainability as formulated by the European Green Deal. The aim is to present new landscape/ecosystem scenarios and services, experimenting with practices that connect human activities, landscape heritage, and sustainability goals. The focus is on lost processes of nature-human interaction – to observe inconsistencies, tensions, and contradictions between human activities and the natural sphere. This is achieved through the involvement of pilot sites – Jerez, Milan, and Lodz, which activate local ecosystems of cultural operators and decision-making bodies, as well as international artists, designers, and architects.
Consortium: Politecnico Milano (IT) project coordinator, Aalborg University (DK), Basque Center for Climate Change (ES), ANCI Toscana (IT), Semantika (SL), Ayuntamiento de Jerez (ES), Fundarte (ES), Nomad Garden (ES), Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (EL), NOVELCORE (ES), COAL (FR), University of West Bohemia (CZ), Lodz Art Centre (PL), CULTURALINK (ES), Associazione Culturale KARAKORUM (IT)
Programme: EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Call: Horizon Europe
Project implementation period: 2023–2026
Research team: Prof. Ing. arch. Zdeněk Fránek, Assoc. Prof. Mgr. art. Jana Potiron, ArtD., MgA. Kristina Zejkanová, MgA. Jan Popelka
