Memoria, iconografía y paisaje: a propósito del uso de la fotografía como fuente geográfica

La memoria es una facultad humana de inequívoca importancia en el manejo de los conocimientos. Los localiza temporal y espacialmente y deviene un factor esencial de nuestro reconocimiento, tanto individual como socialmente: “memoria personal versus memoria colectiva”. a) Una de las opciones metodológicas de la Geografía, la llamada “histórica”, en la que este trabajo se inserta, procesa las distintas fuentes y datos del pasado para alcanzar explicaciones del presente. b) De entre ellas, la fotografía ha alcanzado un valor relevante especialmente en el análisis de procesos de cambios paisajísticos veloces, los que es posible disponer de “series fotográficas” capaces de fijar el proceso en imágenes, trasuntos fieles de la realidad. c) Desde esas perspectivas metodológicas, se presente el estudio de un caso: la orilla del Guadalquivir por Coria del Río (Sevilla).La memoria es una facultad humana de inequívoca importancia en el manejo de los conocimientos. Los localiza temporal y espacialmente y deviene un factor esencial de nuestro reconocimiento, tanto individual como socialmente: “memoria personal versus memoria colectiva”. a) Una de las opciones metodológicas de la Geografía, la llamada “histórica”, en la que este trabajo se inserta, procesa las distintas fuentes y datos del pasado para alcanzar explicaciones del presente. b) De entre ellas, la fotografía ha alcanzado un valor relevante especialmente en el análisis de procesos de cambios paisajísticos veloces, los que es posible disponer de “series fotográficas” capaces de fijar el proceso en imágenes, trasuntos fieles de la realidad. c) Desde esas perspectivas metodológicas, se presente el estudio de un caso: la orilla del Guadalquivir por Coria del Río (Sevilla).

Teaching-learning process of historical heritage: a Journey as a beginning, path and end

The implantation of new university degrees within the European Higher Education Area implies the need of innovative methodologies in teaching and learning to improve the skills and competencies of students and to answer the growing needs that society continuously demands to heritage management experts. The present work shows an application of the teaching methodology proposed during the international workshop entitled “I International Planning Preservation Workshop. Learning from Al Andalus”, which included the participation of the University of Alicante and Granada, Università Politecnico di Milano and Hunter College City University of New York; where we tried to dissolve traditional boundaries derived of interuniversity cooperation programs. The main objective of the workshop was to discuss and debate the role of urban Historical Centers within the Global Heritage by the integrated work through multidisciplinary teams and the creation of a permanent international working group between these universities to both teach and research. The methodology of this workshop was very participatory and considered the idea of a new learning process generated by "a journey experience." A trip from global to local (from the big city to the small village) but also a trip from the local (historical) part of a big city to the global dimension of contemporary historical villages identified by the students through a system of exhibition panels in affinity groups, specific projects proposed by lecturers and teachers or the generation of publications in various areas (texts, photographs, videos, etc.). So, the participation of the students in this multidisciplinary meeting has enhanced their capacity for self-criticism in several disciplines and has promoted their ability to perform learning and research strategies in an autonomous way. As a result, it has been established a permanent international work structure for the development of projects of the Historical City. This relationship has generated the publication of several books whose contents have reflected the conclusions developed in the workshop and several teaching proposals shared between those institutions. All these aspects have generated a new way of understanding the teaching process through a journey, in order to study the representative role of university in the historical heritage and to make students (from planning, heritage management, architecture, geography, sociology, history or engineering areas) be compromised on searching strategies for sustainable development in the Contemporary City.