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(2018-2021)
The AQUA project aims to evaluate water management efficiency from the 16th to the 19th centuries and correspondingly to establish recommendations on water and energy saving methods in contemporary gardens and landscapes, enabling future eco-innovations. In Portugal, the existence of a large body of knowledge and a cohort of hydraulic experts is evident between the utopian project for an aqueduct by Francisco de Holanda (1571) and the construction of the Free Waters Aqueduct, inaugurated in 1748, bringing water to Lisbon from Sintra over a distance of 58 km. With this water channelled to Lisbon, over than twenty fountains were built, increasing the drinking water supply for the population. Despite water distribution and drainage systems having been only built in the second half of the 19th century, before that, advanced water management practices were developed and applied in the context of villas and monastic enclosures. These gardens qua laboratories for hydraulic innovations were essential to further developments in water supply systems. They were governed by sustainability principles associated to water savings and water wise management.History of Science and Technology leads this multidisciplinary project involving collaboration between historians, engineers and landscape architects to promote bridging boundaries between the Humanities and the Sciences. AQUA’s international team sets three main goals: 1) To build historical knowledge on water management in the early modern period; 2) To evaluate early modern water management efficiency at a worldwide level; and 3) To establish specifications on water saving in gardens and landscapes, enabling the development of novel models of water saving.
(2015-2020)
When thinking about the Algarve and its landscape, it is normal for mental images of palm trees and golf courses to occur. The Algarve landscape has been invaded by a landscape model, the so-called “tropical paradises”, which proliferated through the tourism industry. It was from here that the study “Sustainable Beauty for Algarvean Gardens: Old Knowledge to a Better Future” started, defining as a problem the lack of sustainability of the Algarve landscape dominated by lawns with palm trees that deplete the region's water resources.
The project is explained in the article “Sustainable beauty for algarvean gardens: cross-boundary solutions between the humanities and the sciences", published online by Interdisciplinary Science Reviews in October 2017.
Through books and documentation from the 16th to the 19th centuries, this research aims to demonstrate that more sustainable solutions can be found using indigenous species from the Algarve region, capable of adapting to the characteristics of the climate and soils of that area. Historical research has made it possible to discover which species dominated the Algarve landscape between the 16th and 19th centuries, many of them perfectly adapted to the climate of the Mediterranean region and which, therefore, did not require irrigation. In addition, this study made it possible to discover ancient horticultural techniques that protected the evaporation of water from the land and traditional irrigation systems
Consulting
Consulting
Os jardins dos Açores constituem um conjunto patrimonial de relevo, pela sua dimensão histórica, botânica e paisagista. O projeto visa a consolidação científica e tecnológica do “Garden Tourism” nos Açores, considerando os seus jardins históricos enquanto produto turístico específico de grande potencial para a valorização do destino. Levanta questões de investigação em torno dos critérios de avaliação da qualidade ambiental, patrimonial e estética associada aos jardins, com base nos levantamentos provenientes de diversas áreas disciplinares; das correlações a estabelecer entre a visão dos peritos e as experiências dos utilizadores; bem como das estratégias e dispositivos comunicacionais mais eficazes. Abrange uma tríplice componente de investigação, de formação e de construção de uma aplicação informática para dispositivos móveis e de uma página web do GreenGA. Entre os resultados e indicadores científicos incluem-se a realização de workshops e seminários internacionais, publicações científicas e três brochuras de divulgação de jardins públicos em S. Miguel, Terceira e Faial. Salienta-se que este projeto foi integrado no referencial estratégico do Turismo de Portugal «Plano de Ação para o Desenvolvimento do Turismo em Portugal 2014-2020.
https://www.otacores.com/greenga/
https://www.otacores.com/greenga/
Participation
Participation
Pretende-se com este projecto contribuir para a área de ponta da história urbana da ciência, tecnologia e medicina (doravante CTM), trazendo-lhe a perspectiva inovadora fornecida pelo estudo pormenorizado da cidade de Lisboa.
http://ciuhct.org/investigacao/visoes-de-lisboa
http://ciuhct.org/investigacao/visoes-de-lisboa
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