Abstract:
Cultural Landscapes & Systemic Landscape Planning (SysLP) encompasses biodiversity conservation, water management, and socio-cultural values and practices as drivers for decision-making and structuring systemic urban environment dynamics to achieve sustainable and resilient communities. In this proposal, cultural heritage plays an essential role as attributes that hold up past and present collective values, which must remain in the future. Quantitative and qualitative methods are part of this proposal's methodological framework. As a result, strategic systemic plans and projects come out to guide future community development. They are co-designed with people (especially traditional people), focusing on fulfilling multiple goals, offering alternative solutions, and providing technical evidence for stakeholders' interest articulation and negotiation.

Bio:
Raquel Tardin-Coelho is an architect and urban planner, PhD CUM LAUDE (UPC – Barcelona), with significant experience in Landscape and Urban Planning/Design for sustainable development. In the last 12 years, her practice and research have focused on transdisciplinary and systemic methods and tools based on regenerative sustainability principles to achieve sustainable and resilient communities by engaging local people in articulation with governmental and non-governmental institutions to shape strategic plans, projects, and policies. Raquel is an expert member of the ICOMOS-IFLA International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes (ISCCL) – UNESCO, which works on recommendations for World Heritage nominations and World Heritage Sites' urban planning and management. Since 2020, she has been a Research Fellow and Associate Lecturer at Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) Institute and the School of Design and the Built Environment, Curtin University. Previously, she was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning (FAU) / Graduate Programme in Urban Planning (PROURB) / Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil.

Short film synopsis:
transFORMING the LANDSCAPE is a short film directed by Raquel Tardin-Coelho and Paulo Maia, and produced with the support of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, which has recently received the 2022 Best Short Film Award at the Australia Film Festival and an Honourable Mention at the World Cine Fest 2022. Set in the World Cultural and Natural Heritage Site of Paraty, Brazil, the film highlights essential aspects of the Brazilian Atlantic Coast traditional communities currently being impacted by urban development while simultaneously reflecting traditional peoples' struggles in changing landscapes worldwide.