Operational landscapes as culture generators: the case of Barros de Beja

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https://doi.org/10.11606/1982-02672025v33e1

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Archaelogy, Urbanism, Regional planning

Resumo

Historically, the countryside has been seen as having a subordinate role to the development of cities. Its place in the understanding of the processes that shape the spatial and social organization of society has often been neglected. But if the countryside is thought of not only as a support to the city, but as a territory with autonomous characteristics, it acquires a radical potential for the transformation of urban development. Starting from this question the research aims to explore the confrontation between ancient and contemporary organization of the hinterlands territory, and examines it as an opportunity to establish alternative development processes. This investigation finds its specificity in the low fields of Alentejo, a region in the south of Portugal that can be understood as a mutating territory, where a wide range of traces of its historical landscape are dispersed within a highly operationalized agro landscape. The proposed research advocates for the view of the countryside as a cultural generator, and sees this characteristic as having the potential to mediate between infrastructural transformations and human settlements.

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Biografia do Autor

  • Miguel Angel Palacios Carrasco, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Brazilian architect graduated from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (FAU-UFRJ) in 2018. During his studies, between 2015 and 2016, he completed an academic exchange at the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB), Spain. His graduation project focused on the urban cemeteries of Rio de Janeiro, exploring alternative scenarios for the city and reinterpreting cultural landscapes and pre-existing urban geographies. Titled Espaço Morto (Dead Space), the project was awarded the National Opera Prima Prize, which recognizes the best graduation theses in Brazil. Following his graduation, Carrasco worked in multifaceted practise, being awarded in several architecture competitions such as Parque Morro da Manteiga in Bahia and Reimagining Stations Architecture Competition supported by RIBA. In 2021, Miguel Carrasco returned to Europe to pursue a joint master's degree in Architecture, Landscape, and Archaeology, offered by Sapienza University in Rome, Technical University of Athens, Federico II University and Coimbra University. E-mail: miguel.carrasco.arquitetura@gmail.com.

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Publicado

2025-02-17

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v. 33 (2025)

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Estudos de Cultura Material

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CARRASCO, Miguel Angel Palacios. Operational landscapes as culture generators: the case of Barros de Beja. Anais do Museu Paulista: História e Cultura Material, São Paulo, v. 33, p. 1–41, 2025. DOI: 10.11606/1982-02672025v33e1. Disponível em: https://periodicos.usp.br/anaismp/article/view/219293.. Acesso em: 30 mar. 2025.