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CULT-RURAL THEME 1: CULTURAL LANDSCAPES The interaction between rural communities and the natural environment
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SCENARIO UNIT 1. Signs and symbols: primeval relationships UNIT 2 Exploitation of nature for productive purposes UNIT 3. Adaptation of buildings to the landscape UNIT 4. Memory and future
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UNIT 1. Signs and symbols: primeval relationships Myths and popular beliefs Water and fairies Landmarks and heroes Toponymy Sacred trees, rocks etc
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UNIT 2 Exploitation of nature for productive purposes Cultivating the land The terraced landscape (drystone walls) Agricultural tools connected to changes in the landscape Animal farming - Nomadic life Energy windmills and wind generator water mills and dams
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Circular buildings Huts made of wood and foliage Stone made constructions using the vaulting systems Many examples date back to the Neolithic Greece: Dimini and Sesklo Cyprus: Choirokitia Used as nomadic family houses temporal accommodation working spaces
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UNIT 3. Adaptation of buildings to the landscape Use of materials and methods of building Circular building (mud, straw, stone) Bio-climatic construction Aesthetic adaptation of settlements and built complexes to the landscape
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UNIT 4. Memory and future The landscape dictates lifestyle, movement, aesthetics of people Movement (Dances), materials (textiles) Landscape as souvenir or advertisement Landscape in Art (utopian, futuristic, classical etc) Challenges and prospects Dangers (fires, floods, drought, etc) Destruction from human intervention (buildings, roads, blockage or re-direction of rivers, streams etc)
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