Indication: Professor Leonardo Barci Castriota Moura – School of Architecture at UFMG
Period: September 25th to October 6th, 2018
Researcher Graham Fairclough is an archaeologist and, in the 1970s and 1980s, he directed several excavations, including Edlingham Castle in Northumberland (1978-83). From 1976 to 2012, he had a long career with English Heritage, in heritage management and landscape policy and research, most recently as Head of Characterization (2002-2012), developing and leading the National Historic Landscape Characterization program in England, and in 2000 as co-coordinator of the ‘Power of the Places’ review of heritage attitudes and practices (2000). He worked with the Council of Europe on the implementation of the European Landscape Convention and the Faro Convention on the value of Cultural Heritage to society and was a lead author of the Union’s ESF/COST science policy report European on the landscape. He was a member of several European networks and research projects, for example: ‘European Pathways to the Cultural Landscape’ European Pathways to the Cultural Landscape (EU Culture 2000), Landmarks (COST A27) and EUCALAND (EU Culture 2007), ‘Culture in Sustainable Development’ (COST IS1007). He also coordinated the European JPI Cultural Heritage network ‘CHeriScape’, the newly formed European cultural heritage network of five countries. His publications on heritage and landscape theory and practice include several edited books, many articles and book reviews, and he frequently gives presentations, often invited, at conferences and universities.