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Manicured landscapes: a video exploration of the Dolomite mountains as memoryscapes

Abstract In 2009 UNESCO’s World Heritage Program inscribed nine mountain parks located in Northeastern Italy under the single Dolomites World Heritage Site (DWHS). Under criterion vii, they were acknowledged by the World Heritage Convention to be ‘widely regarded as being among the most attractive mountain landscapes in the world’ with their beauty being ‘intrinsic’ to the nature of the mountains. In our film and paper we argue for a reconsideration of the ‘intrinsic nature’ of its beauty in a sense that is much different than that intended by UNESCO. Following a relational line of reasoning we argue that the essence of the distinctive landscape of the Dolomites lies in the entanglements occurring among its inhabitants who, in the course of living there, have historically been and are currently immersed in its formation. We suggest that through such entanglements – sometimes consonant and sometimes dissonant with ‘authorized’ notions of the heritage landscape – the Dolomitic landscapes exist as manicured landscapes. By drawing from the concept of memoryscape and non-representational ideas we articulate the notion of a manicured landscape.