THE FOCUS OF THE STUDY According to the Asia Link experience and research developed in The Project of Sustainability doctorate course, concisely the most important reasons that explain the difficulty of dialogue among cultural landscape and faster development are: 1. Accelerated development, without time for reflection. In this context the universities are excellent thinking tanks for elaborating and offering society new ideas. The transformation of territory produces in some cases the necessity to give an answer to urgent questions. 2. New demands, new typologies, and new scales over the territory. They are the most difficult problems encountered in balancing the relation between change and landscape coherence. The survival of the original identity, or its sensitive evolution, when faced with its new uses demands an appreciation of the cultural landscape's capacity to assume new uses.
The goal of this study proposal is to reinvent new strategies and include all types of artistic expression for preserving or designing the sensitive transformation of cultural landscape identities. The proposal takes into consideration the following: 1. The intangible value of cultural landscapes 2. Reflecting about the capacity of the holistic and multidisciplinary approximations to respond to new challenges for analysis, mapping, and projects pertinent to the transformation of the cultural landscapes. Similarly, it will be considering the possibility of reinventing new tools for the transformation