• Exhibition
• Researcher's daily routine
• From macrocosm to microcosm
• Deserts and savannahs
• The desert moves
• Adopting and sharing
• Exploration and travel
• Narrative and memory
• Fighting and negotiating
• Preservation and support
• Project Representatives

People have different perceptions of one and the same landscape. They see landscapes in different ways and invest them with different memories and ideologies. Many languages profoundly reflect the way in which populations deal with landscapes on a cognitive level. Thus, desert populations differentiate characteristics of rivers with great precision whereas inhabitants of riparian landscapes have an infinite number of terms for river bank. The intellectual culture of a community is profoundly influenced by reference to concrete landscapes: while for one group a landscape is fundamentally structured by a network of ancestors’ graves, for another group the scenes of battles are significant. Landscapes are always linked to narratives, which create identity. The close relationship between culture and landscape is reflected in language, pictorial representations, memories and rituals.