Re-conceptualizing Common Ground of the Cultural Landscape; Testing the Reality of Sarajevoscape

Abstract

This paper discusses the complex processes and practices of global flows within the dynamic nature of European cultural landscapes in a contemporary context. It examines the role of new technologies, recent demographic fluctuations and increasing interconnectedness in cultural landscape reconfiguration. This paper represents an attempt to encourage a shift in thinking on existing environmental resources and sustainable landscape practices, and to question alternative approaches that are sensitive to the cultural interchange process. Substantively, complex and contradictory nature of contemporary cultural identities is addressed in the city of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Keywords

• cultural landscape
• European identity
• landscape change
• new Technologies
• Sarajevo, BiH
• sustainability