Author Description

These texts have been delivered at the "Neo-Landscape" meeting, coordinated by Aurora Carapinha and Petran Kockelkoren, that took place in the Eugénio de Almeida Fundation in Evora, November 2006,. They intend to be the vehicle for ideas having potential present and future relevance, which we still cannot exactly predict or measure. We have chosen a maximum simplification in editorial procedures, through a few basic decisions: 1. We kept the texts in the original language in which the lectures were delivered. 2. Some texts have a colloquial language, which we respected. 3. We didn't include any images, for the sake of coherence and a greater degree of minimalism in the whole. We sincerely apologize to authors who have sent us with their texts magnificent slides or videos. The final result is a quite technical opus, maybe not too attractive to the general public, but which includes a variety of very rich approaches to the landscape issue, only possible in the context of a gathering of art schools where, as everyone knows, prevails a specific kind of knowledge that, despite of being open and general, is also profound. - from publisher note.