7TH. INTERNATIONAL APEC CONGRESS
SPACE AND LANDSCAPE
IN THE CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY AND IN THE CLASSICAL HERITAGE
TO THE CONTEMPORARY AGE
The way by which the societies came to be organized, through their cultural and artistic expression, is deeply connected to the notion of natural space and to the continuous transformation of the landscape, leading to the plural definition of territories, each with its own established identity.
Territories give birth to other spaces that are creative and imaginative, literary or political, philosophical as ideological, conveying a fundamental legacy to the future; such is the case of the Classical Heritage, Greek and Roman, which contributed to form our identity.
From the Antiquity to the present day, the attentive look that men and women conceded to spaces and territories has also changed, in multiple and diverse forms of representation, not only political and social, but personal as well. The perception of the landscape or the way each Author wished to portray it, has always been inspired by motives, whatever conscious, that embodied both a purpose of immediate impact and the circumstances of each age.
With the aim to contribute to the understanding of the constructive patterns of space perception in the Classical Antiquity and its influential posterity, the 7th International APEC Congress invites to the discussion of the concept of space, in its own creative relationship with the language, the memory and with the arts, taking into account the recognizable dynamic evidence of the models rooted in literary spaces as a complement or in opposition to the real historical territories and intervention in the natural landscape.