Let's Talk About Dutch Brazil Project

The Let's Talk About Dutch Brazil project aims to broaden discussions on the transculturality of heritage; invest in the universal dissemination of cultural aspects of Dutch Brazil; contribute to the socialization of knowledge produced by research from the Landscape Studies Group on the theme of Dutch presence; and associate the theme "Dutch Brazil" with the urban heritage of important Brazilian cities.

Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

The Kingdom of the Netherlands maintains diplomatic relations with almost every country in the world, including Brazil. The more than 150 embassies and consulates collaborate with local partners in areas such as international trade, sustainable development, innovation, culture, and the rule of law. Through an extensive network of contacts in cultural sectors and institutions in the Netherlands and Brazil, the Embassy of the Netherlands provides subsidies to local cultural institutions that present Dutch cultural works in Brazil and to initiatives aimed at preserving and managing shared cultural heritage.

Landscape Studies Research Group

The Research Group is part of the Postgraduate Program of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of UFAL. Its objective is to act within the themes of creativity, memory, and processes of belonging and non-belonging, driven by engagement in the present and an idea of landscape that does not separate the natural from the artificial. It seeks to catalog architectural, urban, and landscape manifestations considering their material and immaterial elements, based on conflicts between times and spaces. It takes as priority research tools images, reports, and perceptual, sensitive, and affective observations. The research lines of the Group result from peeling back the landscapes studied, in blocks or portions that contain within themselves a certain core of meaning.

In this and other projects, the Group has worked in partnership with the Embassy of the Netherlands, studying landscapes in their multiple dimensions, largely using written and visual sources left by the Dutch.