Abstract

FUENTES FARIAS, Francisco Javier. Qualitative experience in the landscape and built heritage. Apuntes [online]. 2011, vol.24, n.2, pp.166-177. ISSN 1657-9763.

The way in which the inhabitants of a cultural landscape perceive their environment is not sufficiently defined as an object of study. That constructive processes involve the use of mental schemes, scaling systems, rules and collective representations, which role plays in this language and systems of signs, and what is the information needed to design space and build places to live? Are these just schemes and conceptual categories, or systems of rules and representations that organize the world? Where they are, and how are culturally transmitted? The question is about the meaning of such categories, from the point of view of the cultural actors. We use an approach from the complexity, with elements of social science, neuroscience, philosophy of language and mind, to demonstrate that the landscape and built space are the result of transmission of cultural information through conceptual, grammatical, and ontological categories. We need to explain if these categories do exist in the minds, the language, or in the actions of the cultural actors, and too in what way this rules and categories are innate or learned.

Keywords : heritage; meaning; categories; cognition and perception; Cultural heritage; Social perception; Cultural landscapes; Symbolism; Communication and culture.

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