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PresentationThe impact of the Modern Movement and modernisation processes on rural landscapes in Europe and beyond is a widespread but little known, recognised or understood phenomenon which still exerts effects today. Within the third joint research programme of HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) dedicated to &#8220;The uses of the past&#8221; which started in 2016, this subject is now being studied through several lenses within the MODSCAPES project.&#160;In recent decades, fields as diverse as geography, rural sociology, cultural studies and a number of design-related disciplines such as landscape architecture and architectural and planning history have turned their attention towards the rural landscape as an emerging field of practice and conceptualization, endeavouring to reverse the so-called &#8216;divorce&#8217; between design and agriculture occurred after the Second World War. The Modern movement started to make an impact on rural landscapes as early as the mid-19th century (with the experiments of utopian socialism, radical state reformism, and enlightened philanthropy), and even more from the 1920s onwards, especially in the frame of late colonisation as well as the new political movements of the time &#8211; such as Fascism, Socialism, Communism, Zionism, Anarchism, Communalism, the Co-operative Movement&#8230;In an attempt to cope with a &#8220;problematic&#8221; social group, an unproductive or underproductive land, and the dramatical backwardness of the agricultural sector, different actors such as Nation-States, government assisted organizations, bottom-up movements or groups, and even individuals, engaged in more or less extensive campaigns to dramatically reshape the countryside. With the help of experts in many different fields, they started imagining, planning and implementing radically new ideas. Through selective uses of the past and tradition, they &#8220;reinvented&#8221; unprecedented ideas of rurality. The resulting landscapes of intensive agriculture and mechanisation, the many new rural settlements and agricultural building complexes, the impact of large-scale drainage schemes as well as the social and cultural legacies of the times make for a rich field of research.The conference is combined with the&#160;Baltic Landscape Forum 2018, and has applied for a&#160;European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018&#160;event label (awaiting approval on December 7th 2017). The&#160;European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018&#160;highlights landscapes and looks what we have shared and still sharing cross Europe in this field.Therefore it would be nice to emphasis also which actors, ideas and concepts have influenced each other when the modern movement implemented new concepts of landscape planning and management forming our current day cultural landscape heritage.The conference invites researchers from any discipline (including but not limited to those noted above) to come together and share their work. Themes which are of interest include:The role of political systems in rural settlement planning, internal colonisation and state buildingModernism in rural settlement planning and rural architecture&#160;The impact of modernisation (eg mechanisation, land drainage, plant breeding, mono-cultural cropping, fertilisers and pesticides) on the structure and function of the rural and natural landscapeThe image of modernisation of rural landscapes as presented through film, photography, art, propaganda and literatureChanging social structures which emerged through political and economic processesMemories, stories and the voices of the people who helped to drive the modernisation process and who lived through it as farmers, villagers and colonistsThe physical legacies of the modernisation period as expressed in the landscape and built elements, (eg whether continuing in use or abandoned and ruined)Pilot and model experiments: experimental farms, exhibition villages, prison farms, model agricultural schools &#160;Alternative plans and schemes: paths not taken to modernize the countrysideThe place of the rural house within discourses and debates around vernacular, traditional, and modernist architecture, in the countryside as well as in the cityCurrent practices and experiments in conservation, preservation, heritagization, and landscape restoration of modernist rural landscapes and architectureSocial engineering: the making, remaking and unmaking of new rural identitiesWho are the policy-makers? The role of experts, companies, settlers in modernist agrarian policiesWhich modernisms for which modernities? Concrete evidences and rhetorical symbols of power, coercion, freedom and emancipationAppropriation and inhabitation: adoption, rejection or subversion of agrarian policies, schemes, blueprints, spaces and buildings by their inhabitants through timeMajor and minor political, agronomical, planning and design theories of agrarian modernization &#160;Proposals may address modernist rural landscapes at any scale, ranging from the single building or site, to nation-wide policies, or transnational comparative approaches.The period of interest is focused on the &#8220;short&#8221; 20th century, but may as well deal with case studies dating back to the &#8220;long&#8221; 19th century. Papers dealing with current issues, challenges, practices or experiments in planning, design, landscape architecture or stewardship, etc. for modernist rural landscapes are most welcome.The geographical focus of the conference is mainly Europe, and its influences beyond its borders. However, proposals dealing with case studies in any geographic location are welcome.Over and all, the conference aims at offering, probably for the first time at this scale, a broad overview of the wide range of experiments and conditions testifying of the engagement of modernism towards the rural question. In particular, it aims at verifying to which extent the concept of &#8220;modernist rural landscapes&#8221; can help to frame a multitude of local, regional or national episodes in the history of architecture, planning and landscapes, as a trans-national phenomenon.Within this frame, successful proposals will focus on documenting concrete and well delimited case studies, but will also strive to develop their theoretical implications, related methodological issues, and current significance. In particular, participants are invited to elaborate on the three main concepts underlying the MODSCAPES project: &#8220;modernism&#8221;, &#8220;reinvention&#8221;, and &#8220;landscape&#8221;.Submission GuidelinesSubmission of abstracts Abstracts are invited on any of the above themes for oral presentations, posters, or training sessions/workshops. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and should contain a short introduction, the research aim or question, a brief statement of the methods used and some main results and conclusions, supported by up to 4 references, and up to 2 images.Bottom-up proposals of full sessions&#160;(3 to 4 papers) expanding the conference theme&#8217;s subtopics, built around existing research projects and/or current debates, and engaging with recent contentious research, exciting new approaches, or theoretical interventions are welcome. To apply for a full session, the proposing session chair(s) should submit a regular abstract including: a list of the foreseen authors and paper titles, and a clear rationale for the session&#8217;s collective goal (300 words). The papers themselves should be submitted as any other regular proposal. Full sessions may be chaired by one or 2 persons&#160;affiliated to distinct institutions. Sessions composed entirely of participants from a single department at a single institution are not likely to be accepted. Graduate students are welcome as session participants, but sessions composed entirely of graduate students are less likely to be accepted than panels that include senior and postdoctoral presenters together with graduate students. Full sessions will be dedicated 90 minutes time slots in the conference program.Training sessions &#38; workshops:&#160;We welcome&#160;proposals addressing public officials, decision-makers, and practitioners in the field, providing practical tools or insights in the topic from a decision-making, action-oriented or professional perspective. Training sessions or participatory workshops may be animated by up to 2 persons (or will include a clear rationale for more persons), will address groups of at least 5 and up to 30 participants. Any practical or technical requirement to be provided by the organizers should also be clearly stated in the proposal. Training sessions or participatory workshops will be dedicated 90 minutes time slots in the conference program.Full papers and posters&#160;will make use of the template provided by the organizers and comply with the editorial guidelines provided; they will have no more than 3.000 words (in addition to footnotes and references).The conference&#8217;s working language is English. Non-native English authors are strongly encouraged to have their papers reviewed by a professional copy-editing service. Upon request, the organizers may suggest contacts.Publishing opportunities All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings (electronically).The conference organizers are also taking provision to offer the opportunity to a selected number of participants of being invited to submit a revised and expanded paper to special edited issues of international peer-reviewed journals (JoLA-Journal of Landscape Architecture, CLARA Architecture/Recherche,&#8230;).The Conference will take place in Tartu, second largest city of Estonia, and home to the Estonian University of Life Sciences, partner in MODSCAPES and organizer of the conference, from 10 to 13 June 2018.The Conference venue will be the newly completed Estonian National Museum, a gem of contemporary architecture and landscape design.This conference aims at:attracting other scholars, practitioners, decision-makers and citizens concerned with modern rural landscapesgaining insight in case-studies and approaches not examined within the project,disseminating the intermediary outcomes of the project,consolidating MODSCAPES&#8217; international network.All accepted papers will be published in online proceedings, possibly to be made available at the conference itself.The conference organizers are taking provisions to propose a selection of the best conference papers to be improved and published in edited journal issues.Schedule(Check the conference website for potential deadline extensions)December 21, 2017: Submission of abstractsJanuary 31, 2018: Feedback to participants on acceptance, rejection or revisionFebruary 14, 2018: Submission of revised abstractsMarch 31, 2018: Submission of full-text papersApril 30 2018: Feedback to participants on acceptance or revision from double-blind peer-reviewMay 14 2018: Submission of final papersJune 10 2018: Conference startsSubmission platformhttps://modscapes.emu.ee/openconf.phpOrganizing comitteeProf. Simon Bell, Chair of Landscape Architecture, Estonian University of Life Sciences / president of ECLAS- European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (MODSCAPES principal investigator)Dipl.-Ing. Friedrich Kuhlmann, Chair of Landscape Architecture, Estonian University of Life SciencesOksana Zhukova, Chair of Landscape Architecture, Estonian University of Life SciencesMartti Veldi, Chair of Landscape Architecture, Estonian University of Life SciencesProf. Axel Fisher, HABITER study center, Faculty of Architecture La Cambre Horta, Universit&#233; libre de Bruxelles / F.R.S.-FNRS Belgian Fund for ResearchProf. Luisa Moretto, HABITER study center, Faculty of Architecture La Cambre Horta, Universit&#233; libre de Bruxelles (MODSCAPES project leader)Prof. Jacques Teller, Universit&#233; de Li&#232;ge, Faculty of Applied SciencesScientific comitteeMODSCAPES researchers:Prof. Simon Bell, Chair of Landscape Architecture, Estonian University of Life Sciences / president of ECLAS- European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (MODSCAPES principal investigator)Prof. Luisa Moretto, HABITER study center, Faculty of Architecture La Cambre Horta, Universit&#233; libre de Bruxelles (MODSCAPES project leader)Prof. Cristina Pallini, ABC dpt. of Architecture, Building Engineering and Construction, Politecnico di Milano (MODSCAPES principal investigator)Dr. Vittoria Capresi, Habitat-Unit, chair of international urbanism, Technische Universtit&#228;t Berlin (MODSCAPES principal investigator)Prof. Maria Helena Maia, CEAA &#8211; Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Ara&#250;jo /&#160; ESAP &#8211; Escola Superior Art&#237;stica do Porto (MODSCAPES principal investigator)Prof. Axel Fisher, HABITER study center, Faculty of Architecture La Cambre Horta, Universit&#233; libre de Bruxelles / F.R.S.-FNRS Belgian Fund for ResearchArch. Michele Tenzon, HABITER study center, Faculty of Architecture La Cambre Horta, Universit&#233; libre de BruxellesProf. Nora Lombardini, ABC dpt. of Architecture, Building Engineering and Construction, Politecnico di MilanoProf. Francesca Bonfante, ABC dpt. of Architecture, Building Engineering and Construction, Politecnico di MilanoProf. Federico Acuto, ABC dpt. of Architecture, Building Engineering and Construction, Politecnico di MilanoDr. Aleksa Korolija, ABC dpt. of Architecture, Building Engineering and Construction, Politecnico di MilanoArch. Silvia Boca, ABC dpt. of Architecture, Building Engineering and Construction, Politecnico di MilanoProf. Vilma Hastaoglou-Martinidis, School of Architecture, Aristotle University of ThessalonikiArch. Rute Figueiredo, CEAA &#8211; Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Ara&#250;jo /&#160; ESAP &#8211; Escola Superior Art&#237;stica do PortoArch. Miguel Moreira Pinto, CEAA &#8211; Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Ara&#250;jo /&#160; ESAP &#8211; Escola Superior Art&#237;stica do PortoArch. Joana Couto, CEAA &#8211; Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Ara&#250;jo /&#160; ESAP &#8211; Escola Superior Art&#237;stica do PortoProf. Paolo Marcolin, CEAA &#8211; Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Ara&#250;jo /&#160; ESAP &#8211; Escola Superior Art&#237;stica do PortoDr. Marta Lalanda Prista, CRIA &#8211; Centro em Rede de Investiga&#231;&#227;o em AntropologiaArch. Alexandra Cardoso, CEAA &#8211; Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Ara&#250;jo /&#160; ESAP &#8211; Escola Superior Art&#237;stica do PortoProf. Joaquim Flores, CEAA &#8211; Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Ara&#250;jo /&#160; ESAP &#8211; Escola Superior Art&#237;stica do PortoProf. Maria Josefina Gonzalez Cubero, CEAA &#8211; Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Ara&#250;jo /&#160; ESAP &#8211; Escola Superior Art&#237;stica do Porto: Departamento de Teoria de la Arquitectura y Proyectos Arquitect&#243;nicos / Universidad de ValladolidProf. Isabel Matias, CEAA &#8211; Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Ara&#250;jo /&#160; ESAP &#8211; Escola Superior Art&#237;stica do Porto; Universidade Lus&#243;fona PortoProf. Alexandra Trevisan, CEAA &#8211; Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Ara&#250;jo /&#160; ESAP &#8211; Escola Superior Art&#237;stica do PortoArch. C&#233;sar Machado Moreira, CEAA &#8211; Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Ara&#250;jo /&#160; ESAP &#8211; Escola Superior Art&#237;stica do Porto; Universidade Lusiada, Famalic&#227;oArch. Christoph Muth, Habitat-Unit, chair of international urbanism, Technische Universtit&#228;t Berlin