CULT Topics

CULT is a cooperative network concerned with the sustainable development of the cultural landscape.

With the three fields of activity Science, Practice and Discourse, we network research and practice. We promote the transfer of knowledge to address the pressing problem areas of cultural landscape development:

KuLaDig

The digital system KuLaDig (Kulturlandschaft Digital) for recording and displaying cultural landscape elements is used to solve a variety of different cultural landscape issues, for example in regional development, nature conservation, environmental education and tourism. In order to promote networking between the various KuLaDig stakeholders and create synergies for the future, a transnational KuLaDig working group was founded under the umbrella of KULT. This group meets at regular intervals.

Landscape development in the Ukraine

The National Polytechnic University of Ukraine in Lviv (Lemberg) has been cooperating with Hochschule Geisenheim University for two years now. Together with the Viacheslav Chornovil Institute for Sustainable Development, the Cultural Landscape Competence Center (KULT) at Hochschule Geisenheim University has been working on landscape development issues in Ukraine. As part of this cooperation, Geisenheim scientists Dr. Martin Reiss and Dr. Jörn Schultheiß took part in the "Visiting Professor Program" in Lviv and have now been awarded a certificate. Together with their Ukrainian colleague, Dr Maryana Senkiv, they are offering a course on the digitization of features of Ukrainian cultural landscapes, thus contributing to the preservation of Ukraine's cultural heritage. When reconstruction begins, such documentation can be used, for example, for the proper reconstruction of culturally and historically valuable assets. This fits in thematically with the activities of KULT, which organizes a nationwide working group for the KuLaDig (Kulturlandschaft Digital) system and is involved in several projects for the digitization of cultural landscapes in Germany.

Link to content created in the teaching event: www.kuladig.de/Objektansicht/SWB-334742

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1. www.srf.ch/kultur/gesellschaft-religion/ukraine-zerstoerte-kulturgueter-kunsthistoriker-das-loescht-die-kulturelle-identitaet-aus
2. www.unesco.org/en/articles/damaged-cultural-sites-ukraine-verified-unesco

KliA-Net Rheingau

The KliA-Net project is being continued as KliA-Net Rheingau:

Hochschule Geisenheim University, together with the Wuppertal Institute for Environment, Climate and Energy and the city of Eltville am Rhein, implemented the KliA-Net project from 2019-2022. During the first project phase, practical and application-oriented action and implementation concepts for climate adaptation were developed for various stakeholders. The basis for the establishment and work of the stakeholder network is a catalog with descriptions of measures for climate adaptation in viticulture. KliA-Net now has over 250 network members, and numerous network meetings, stakeholder workshops and discussions with winegrowers and wineries have been organized on site.

The town of Eltville and Hochschule Geisenheim University have now signed an agreement on the topic of cooperation on climate adaptation in Eltville - and at regional level in the Rheingau. The aim is to continue the work in KliA-Net. In particular, the use of water as a resource, the reduction of heat, drought and flash floods by implementing the principle of the sponge city and the possibilities of using land consolidation as an instrument for climate adaptation require a variety of solutions.