Dissemination of paleontological heritage. The experience with the personal legacy of Bartomeu Darder i Pericàs

Paper, journal PH. Boletín del Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio

Journal PH: Boletín del Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio has published a special issue devoted to Spanish paleontological heritage. Its section Panorama includes an article in which Francesc X. Bonnín and I present the digitalisation, systematization and dissemination of the legacy of the Majorcan geologist Bartomeu Darder i Pericàs (1894-1944).

The legacy was donated to the Government of the Balearic Islands by Josep Darder. It is composed by a photograph collection, with scientific and personal images, and document collection containing journals, books, maps and notebooks on his workfield, among other materials. Photographs and notebooks can be fully accessed on the website http://llegatdarder.balearsfaciencia.org/

Calvià. In Illetas. Bartomeu Darder can be seen in the centre of the image. Foto Llegat Darder (CAIB)

Paper can be read and downloaded from the journal’s website.

Centers of National Tourist Interest, an oppotunity or a disaster? Platja de Muro vs. Cales de Mallorca

Paper presentation, Touriscape: Transversal Tourism and Landscape. International, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. 8th-10th February 2018.

The International Conference Touriscape has taken place from 8th to 10th February at the cultural centre Pablo Ruiz Picasso in Torremolinos (Málaga, Spain). It has been organised by Institute Habitat-Tourism-Territory and has reunite researchers from a wide range of fields -architecture, history, geography, among others. Keynote speakers and paper presenters have discussed about tourist development and its implications on urbanism, landscape and society. 

I have participated in the conference with the paper “Centros de Interés TurísticoNacional, ¿oportunidad o desastre? Platja de Muro vs. Cales de Mallorca”. I analyse and compare the urban development of Platja de Muro and Cales de Mallorca, two tourist areas in the north and east of Majorca respectively. Both were promoted after the approval of the Ley de Centros y Zonas de Interés Turístico Nacional (1963), a law that gave protection to urban developers but did not establish any urban regulations. Nowadays, Platja de Muro and Cales de Mallorca are still dedicated to leisure, but each one shows a very different relation with the environment.