#culturallandscape — Public Fediverse posts

An Aboriginal rock shelter was demolished during construction of a Renewable Energy Zone in NSW and the native bird habitat was cleared
Iconoclasm: From cultural landscape to rubble

"The Central West Orana Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) demolished the rock shelter during land clearing...It is the same company that was responsible for the displacement of about 60 native bird hatchlings, left homeless after the felling of trees."

"The federal environment department investigated the matter and said it found "no evidence of non-compliance" with conditions under it's environment protection and biodiversity conservation act." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-23/rez-rock-shelter-destruction-findings/106831784

NSW government, energy company under fire after native bird habitat cleared for renewables project >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-01/nsw-government-renewable-land-clearing-birds/106085764
#biodiversity #wildlife #birds #IndigenousPeoples #AboriginalHeritage #heritage #trust #respect #RenewableEnergy #consumption #CulturalLandscape #destruction #iconoclasm #WilfulBlindness #NSW #conservation

GlobalFest Returns with New Home at Spruce Meadows, Marking Next Chapter for Iconic Calgary Tradition

Calgary’s premier fireworks festival returns with new drone shows, complimentary on-site parking, VIP offerings, and a reimagined festival…
#Canada #Calgary #culturallandscape #GlobalFest #showpass #SpruceMeadows #sustainablepath
https://www.europesays.com/canada/92395/

London named world’s top cultural city – beating Paris and New York

London has been crowned the world’s top cultural destination, beating cities including Paris and New York. The ranking…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #Paris #CapeTown #cityresidents #CreativeIndustries #culturallandscape #IntrepidTravel #London #MuseumofLondon
https://www.europesays.com/france/15524/

Castillo de Calatañazor (Spain, 2016)

Garage in front not original (!), but yes, that's snow. Way off the beaten track in northern Spain in February. For me, the perfect way to avoid crowds and explore 'hidden' cultural treasures; and avoid the heat.

#photography #fotografie
#fotografia #photographie #streetphotography #spain #history #ruins #culturalheritage #culturallandscape #travelphotography #architecture

La Roque-Gageac (Dordogne region, France, 2025)

#photography #fotografie
#fotografia #photographie #architecture #france #culturallandscape #travelphotography #landscapephotography

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Happy Fenster Freitag, everyone (Haarlem, April 2025)

Who knew that Holland could be so sunny in April?

#photography #fotografie
#fotografia #photographie #architecture #netherlands #culturallandscape #streetphotography #Fensterfreitag

https://www.alojapan.com/1431610/hands-on-bonsai-workshop-brings-kawaguchis-400-year-craft-to-ikebukuro-station/ Hands-On Bonsai Workshop Brings Kawaguchi’s 400-Year Craft to Ikebukuro Station ##KawaguchiCity #bonsai #BonsaiKirakuen #BonsaiTechniques #ChitoseMidori #CulturalLandscape #IkebukuroStation #JapaneseArt #JapaneseTraditionalCulture #LivingArt #news #Tokyo #TokyoNews #東京 #東京都 TOKYO, Dec. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Kawaguchi City, located just north of Tokyo and easily accessible from the city center, is home to a 400-year tradition of bonsai

#Algorithmicculture, driven by machines, is increasingly #influencing our #dailylives and shaping our #culturallandscape. While this offers #convenience and new #possibilities, it also raises #concerns about the erosion of #humancreativity and the potential for #AIcontent to dominate. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/ai-is-coming-for-culture?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Aboriginal cultural heritage site: The kuyang - A giant 300 metre eel arrangement

"All it is is rocks in a paddock," Mr McMaster (farmer)

"Adrian McMaster allegedly used an excavator to remove rocks from an ancient stone arrangement resembling an eel on his Lake Bolac property, between Ballarat and Dunkeld, in 2021. I was moving the stones so I could get the [weed sprayer] in there," the 65-year-old told Ballarat Magistrates Court."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/adrian-mcmaster-in-court-heritage-damage-lake-bolac-eel-rocks/105116232
#AboriginalHeritage #destruction #iconoclasm #kuyang #RockFormation #CulturalLandscape #culture

Quiet moments along Takayna coast. 🌊 💙

1. Contoured swirl of form, tones, and flow
2. Macrocystis pyrifera. Giant Kelp washed up on shore. Threatened species now found only in Lutruwita/Tasmania
3. Coastal abstractions

Experimenting with some subtle editing.. :)

#Takayna #culturallandscape #tasmania #tarkine #geology #abstract #landscape

Archaeoethnologica: Rethinking the Roman Thracia - Lecture / Repensando a Trácia Romana - Palestra

+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/01/repensando-tracia-romana.html

#Archaeology #ClassicalArchaeology #romans #Rome #Thrace #romanprovinces #talk #wedinar #online #culturallandscape #romanization

Archaeoethnologica: Rethinking the Roman Thracia - Lecture / Repensando a Trácia Romana - Palestra

+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/01/repensando-tracia-romana.html

#Archaeology #ClassicalArchaeology #romans #Rome #Thrace #romanprovinces #talk #wedinar #online #culturallandscape #romanization

Archaeoethnologica: Rethinking the Roman Thracia - Lecture / Repensando a Trácia Romana - Palestra

+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/01/repensando-tracia-romana.html

#Archaeology #ClassicalArchaeology #romans #Rome #Thrace #romanprovinces #talk #wedinar #online #culturallandscape #romanization

"To be different without fear."
T.W. Adorno, Minima Moralia

"The referendum, Mr Sivaraman said, had "mainstreamed a torrent of racism" and emboldened people to "immediately challenge" any small measure granting self-determination to Indigenous people. People feel like the defeat of the Voice has given them licence to espouse their racist views...Racism towards First Nations people within Australia had been a "constant" for 238 years that "escalated dramatically" when there was something to attach it to, like cultural heritage protections or the Voice referendum."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-20/mt-arapiles-plan-triggers-racism-towards-aboriginal-people/104604286

'Freedom is no fear.’ Nina Simone/ Nicholas Payton
https://visualizingabolition.ucsc.edu/exhibitions/music-for-abolition.html#sleepwalkers

#referendum #IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #voice #silence #CulturalLandscape #sacred #respect #SettlerSociety #WhiteRage #violence #racism #safety #discrimination #denial #backlash #tolerance for #ambiguity #AuthoritarianPersonality #fear #loss #mountains #climbing #industry #Australia #freedom

Saving earth and rock rings from ubiquitous bulldozers
Cultural landscapes and braided knowledge
Building a more holistic understanding of people, place and Country

"Aboriginal rings are circular, earth (or rock) features that are preserved at increasingly fewer locations across eastern Australia today."

"Braided knowledge approaches build authentic, respectful and reciprocal partnerships with Indigenous community that involve their participation in all aspects."

"...Braided knowledge approaches are lacking from studies of large, circular features known as Aboriginal earth (or rock) rings in Australia. These rings are only known to occur in Queensland, New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria. It is estimated that over 400 rings once existed in NSW and Queensland, but only a quarter remain today (Bowdler Citation2001). Many rings were destroyed following European colonisation, and land development, and those that do remain are vulnerable and fragile (Marks Citation1968; Ponosov Citation1965:69–70; Strong Citation2016; see also Bashta Citation2016). The word bora has been adopted broadly from the language of the Gamilaroi people of NSW and southern Queensland to describe both rings and associated ceremonies across eastern Australia (Fuller et al. Citation2013:30)."
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Spry, C., Freedman, D. L., Hayes, E., Hitchcock, G., Morrison, W., … Mullins, B. (2025). New braided knowledge understandings of an Aboriginal earth ring and biik wurrdha (Jacksons Creek, Sunbury) on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country, southeastern Australia. Australian Archaeology, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2024.2428019
#CulturalLandscape #AboriginalHeritage #CaringForCountry #biodiversity #ecology #grasslands #landscape #artefacts #EarthRings #boras #NSW #IndigenousePeoples #CulturalPractices #LandManagement #BraidedKnowledge #SunburyRings

Une minute de confluence Cher & Loire.
©Philippe Gautier

#valdeloire #loire #Cher #Confluence #ConflenceCherLoire
#Drone #patrimoinemondial #loirevalley
#paysage #paysageculturel
#landscape #culturallandscape

À la confluence du Cher & de la Loire.
Rivage.
©Philippe Gautier

#valdeloire #loire #Cher #Confluence #ConflenceCherLoire
#Drone #patrimoinemondial #loirevalley
#paysage #paysageculturel
#landscape #culturallandscape

"Paysage acoustique"
Mes images de l’église Romane de Talmont-sur-Gironde

https://wildproject.org/livres/sous-le-vent-de-la-mer

Épisode 1/4 : Le problème du silence de la nature
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/avec-philosophie/le-probleme-du-silence-de-la-nature-9613589?at_campaign=culture_focus&at_medium=newsletter&at_chaine=france_culture&at_detail=%23motcle

#paysage #paysageculturel #Talmont
#Saintonge #Roman #Gironde #landscape #Océan #culturallandscape

La Loire à Amboise en novembre. #Amboise #PhilippeGautier #valdeloire #loire #paysage #paysageculturel #patrimoinemondial #loirevalley #landscape #culturallandscape #worldheritage

#Photography #CulturalLandscape

Native Cartography - A Bold Mapmaking Project That Challenges Western Notions Of Place
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https://aeon.co/videos/native-cartography-a-bold-mapmaking-project-that-challenges-western-notions-of-place <-- shared article
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https://emergencemagazine.org/film/counter-mapping/ <-- shared magazine article
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http://www.ashiwi-museum.org/collaborations/ <-- museum page on mapping collaboration
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #maps #cartography #FirstNation #Zuni #NewMexico #nativecartography #place #time #AshiwiAwanMuseum #indigenous #indigenousknowledge #storytelling #plots #boundaries #culturalheritage #culturalhistory #ceramics #stonecarving #mapart #art #tribal #AshiwiMapArt #zunihistory #culturallandscape #gischat