7th Ibero-American Colloquium on Cultural Landscape, Heritage, and Design | May 13–15, 2026 | Federal University of Minas Gerais – Belo Horizonte (MG)
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Submissions are now open for the 7th Ibero-American Colloquium on Cultural Landscape, Heritage, and Design, to be held in May 2026 in Belo Horizonte. The event is organized by the UNESCO Chair on Heritage and Cultural Landscape (UFMG/UFRJ), the Institute for Sustainable Development Studies (IEDS), and ICOMOS-Brazil, continuing a well-established biannial debate that has been held since 2010.
This edition of the Colloquium will deepen conceptual, methodological, and design discussions about cultural landscapes, their implications for preservation, intervention, and heritage management policies, and their relationships with development. As a key transversal theme, the event will give special emphasis to the relationship between cultural landscapes and water, understanding water as an ecological, symbolic, social, and infrastructural matrix of territories.
Topics to be addressed include, among others, thermal landscapes and thermalism, hydro-mineral circuits, architectural and intangible heritage related to water, riverine, coastal, and beach landscapes, as well as contemporary challenges of preservation, management, and sustainability associated with these contexts.
Thematic Axes
Submissions can be made under one of three axes:
Axis 1 – Cultural Landscape: a concept under discussion and its typologies
Axis 2 – Cultural Landscape: strategies for preservation, management, and design
Axis 3 – Cultural Landscape and water
Important Dates
Abstract submission: until January 20, 2026
Selection results: February 3, 2026
Event dates: May 13–15, 2026
Full paper submission for publication: until June 20, 2026
Researchers, faculty, professionals, postgraduate students, and other interested parties are invited to submit their work and participate in this space for critical reflection, academic exchange, and interdisciplinary dialogue within the Ibero-American context.
Registration
Join us and contribute to the debate on cultural landscape, heritage, water, and territory!
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