The intangible values of the landscape

Abstract

The article explores the identity mark registered as personal and collective memory and intangible heritage in the places from a cultural, perceptive, emotional and phenomenological perspective. These landscape values, which can be called intangible, reveal realities of huge importance for culture and for urban planning. Among other techniques, the article focuses on the cartography of values such as tranquillity or the aesthetic emotion, aimed at understanding and designing places. These maps drawn from a deep knowledge of the places are a powerful tool that can be used to claim contemporary landscape as a dynamic, socio-ecological system. Mapping then becomes a process of understanding, evocation and design in itself, through which projects can be integrated in the site.