– DATES:21-27 June 2026 (Weekdays: 9.00-14.00 and 15.00-19.00, Saturday: 9.00-14.00).
– PLAU: School of Architecture of València (Technical University of València, UPV)
The course, “Paths of Water, Pathways of Memory”, organized by the Technical University of València (UPV) in close collaboration with the agakan Trust for Culture (AKTC), will investigate how water systems have given shape and function to the fertile agricultural plain of the Metropolitan Area of València (Horta de València) and how all this material and immaterial knowledge has been used for the design and management of cultural landscapes and gardens in the Mediterranean Basin and in the Middle East.
During its first phase, the course will address water management, cultural heritage and landscape through four thematic paths: (1) Ethnography and immaterial culture, (2) Architecture and water Infrastructures, (3) Reprogramming heritage, (4) Aesthetics, Landscape and Gardens.
In the second phase, the knowledge and ideas developed during the first phase will be combined and transformed into proposals for the reactivation and renovation of a unique cultural site in València and for the design of a new system of gardens and courtyards.
The course is free of charge and is open to students, researchers and professionals with an academic background on any field related to the topic of the course (architecture, landscape architecture, geography, history, ethnography, anthropology, arts, design, linguistics, etc).
For more information and to apply to the course, please visit our website at:
https://pathsofwater.webs.upv.es/