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COMMON LANDSCAPES OF THE METROPOLIS: VIDEO, CRITIQUE AND PROJECT
Next Tuesday, May 12, La Casa de la Arquitectura will host the screening of video-essays made by students of the subjects Landscape and Garden (DCA), Landscape Study (DPA) and The City and the Environment (DUyOT).
Estación de seguimiento espacial. Robledo de Chavela. Fotografía: Miren Pastor.

SEMINAR Metropolitan Cultural Landscapes: Towards an Ecology of Heritage
On 18 and 19 May, a seminar organised by the Spanish Institute of Cultural Heritage in collaboration with the GIPC will be held at the Ministry of Culture’s headquarters as part of the HERITAGESCAPES research project.

PROGRAMME AND REGISTRATION

TOUR&RAIL: Railways, territory and tourism
On April 23, between 09:00h and 14:00h, the dissemination day of the European project TOUR&RAIL: Collaborative ecosystem for the ecological transition in rural areas through a sustainable tourism model applied to low traffic railway lines in Europe (2023-2026) will take place in the auditorium of the multipurpose building of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

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TOUR&RAIL: Railway Heritage in Rural Spain
As a result of the research project TOUR&RAIL: Collaborative ecosystem for ecological transition in rural areas through a sustainable tourism model applied to low traffic railway lines in Europe (2023-2026), we have published an inventory of low-traffic railway lines in Spain.

Landscape and Representation: Echoes of Memory and Future Remembrances
The playlist for the seminar Landscape and Representation: Echoes of Memory and Future Remembrances, held from 30 September to 2 October 2025, is now available on the YouTube channel of the Spanish Cultural Heritage Institute (IPCE). The scientific programme of the seminar is part of the HERITAGESCAPES project.

Cultural landscapes of grain: A study of the (re)planning of the territory of cereal agriculture in the province of Ávila
This project proposes the study and assessment of the cultural landscape built between 1937 and 1984 as a result of the actions of the National Wheat Service in the province of Ávila.
Herrero Palacios

Enhancement and dissemination of funds from the El Retiro Stove Nursery (II)
The project aims to organize, classify and inventory the documentation kept in the historical archive of the El Retiro Greenhouse Nursery in order to create an accessible record that allows the research and dissemination of Madrid's green memory.

Recent Publications

Curating Heritage. On the Future of the Past in the Eve-ryday Landscape of the Metropolis of Madrid

Rodrigo de la O y Eduardo de Nó Santos
Arte y Ciudad, Revista de Investigación, no. 27 (2025).

The concept of exhibition curation is redefined as a specific form of reflective knowledge production, incorporating aesthetics into the process of recognising and safeguarding the values inherent in the everyday landscapes of Madrid.

Factory-Territory System: Cultural Constructs Around Spanish Autarkic Agroindustrial Landscapes

Isabel Rodríguez de la Rosa
sITA. studies in History and Theory of Architecture, vol. 13 (2025).

This article examines the colonisation process of the Franco regime’s Badajoz Plan, focusing particularly on the role played by water in agricultural policy and its impact on the transformation of the landscape and territory.

Everyday heritage:
Representation and landscape
in the region of Madrid

David Escudero y Diego Toribio Álvarez
Arte y Ciudad, Revista de Investigación, no. 27 (2025).

Everyday heritage as a lens for critically reflecting on the potential of representation—especially visual representation—in the emotional connection between communities and their landscapes.

Proyectos en desarrollo