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COMMON - Mountain and Community: Geography and Landscape of the Dolomites, a World Heritage Site

Since 2009, the Dolomites have been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List for their spectacular landscapes and extraordinary geological and geomorphological features. The unique valley landscapes are the result of millennia of adaptation by settled communities, which today face significant challenges such as marginalization, depopulation, and the excesses of tourism exploitation. Through direct engagement with the Dolomite environment, encompassing the variety of conditions from valley floors to high-altitude areas, the course aims to provide a firsthand understanding of these contexts, a reflection on being a community in the Dolomites, and a methodology for the conscious engagement with mountain environments. The main themes include the forms of the physical landscape, the signs of the anthropic landscape, botanical and forestry aspects, resource exploitation, ecomuseum enhancement, and tourism.

Keywords: Dolomites, landscape, community

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