@phdthesis{Torelli2021, author = {Torelli, Valentina}, title = {Scale dissonances between local and world heritage : the rural landscape of the Palladian villa}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:co1-opus4-55371}, school = {BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg}, year = {2021}, abstract = {This research critically analyses the visual representation of the Palladian villa landscape as UNESCO World Heritage. I bring to light certain dissonances around the understanding of this landscape as heritage between global and local perspective. I have explored the ways in which the rural landscape of the Palladian villas is produced by ICOMOS experts, local institution and inhabitants in the contemporary context of the suburban areas of the Veneto region in Italy. Dissonances are arising when the landscape transforms and the visual integrity, or the iconic image of the landscape get lost. I observed that, the loss of the visual integrity, considered as negative by ICOMOS experts, gives space to peculiar heritage social practices from below. I am problematizing two main aspects of the conservation scheme of this site: the selective visual representation of history and the musealization of agriculture for touristic proposes. I am exploring the potential of reframing and renaming the conservation scheme of the World Heritage Site. I suggest using inhabitant's visual representation to reframe the UNESCO management plan and considering the peculiar local agricultural practice as a "continuing cultural landscape". I interpret my empirical and theoretical contribution as a semantic shift in the way the Palladian rural landscape is understood as World Heritage toward an inclusive and situated heritage conservation that extend beyond expert's conservation philosophies. The research contributes to the deconstruction of modern notions of rural landscape and heritage in the field of heritage studies and landscape conservation especially within the implementation of the World Heritage Convention.}, subject = {Rural landscape; Scale dissonances; World Heritage Convention; Visual integrity; Cultural tourism; Landschaft; Maßstabsdissonanzen; Welterbekonvention; Visuelle Integrit{\"a}t; Kulturtourismus; Palladio, Andrea; Villa; Kulturlandschaft; Dissonanz; Bildungstourismus; Weltkulturerbe; Vereinbarung}, language = {en} }