Dynamic Cartography for Landscape Representation of Agricultural Heritage

Abstract

Cartography tends to reflect a specific moment and a fixed stage of a permanent reality, leaving underrepresented, in the best of cases, aspects of great interest for the understanding of the territory, such as the agricultural heritage. This type of heritage reflects the relationship that the individual has played with the land throughout its history, a fundamental role that transcends the strictly productive role and reaches the memory and vital definition of many landscapes. This research aims to collect a selection of contributions, both in the study of new and historical cartographies, in addition to various methods of representation of the territory over time in its different meanings, from an approach that identifies and values the dynamic character of landscapes for its heritage valuation. This work proposes a broader reflection on the use of representation in order to generate a working method that allows combining archival information with the registration of other realities intrinsic to architecture and landscape, creating a narrative focused on those aspects subordinated by historical cartography so far. New cartographies of the agricultural heritage of Nerja’s historical orchard are proposed based on the superimposition of times and events, a display of experiences that allows to interpret the memory of this landscape.