Sečovlje Salterns, Strunjan Salterns, Portorož; Slovenia, May 21–October 8, 2025 Piran’s salt-making tradition is an example of centuries of careful and sensitive human interaction with the environment. The delicate balance between human use of the space and respect for natural features is an important source of ecological knowledge and inspiration, upon which our future also…
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The research project “Grain of Salt, Crystallising Cohabitation: Salt-making as Experiential Environmental Wisdom” approaches traditional salt-working – the craft of producing sea salt – as embodied practical wisdom. Salt-working in north Istria is characterized primarily by its picturesque landscape and rich heritage and is rarely perceived from the perspective of the intertwining of human and…
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Springer has published a monograph entitled “Discourse on the Mountains of Montenegro and Slovenia.” The authors of chapter 22 are members of the program group Heritage on the Margins: Špela Ledinek Lozej, Primož Pipan and Maja Topole. Link to the article: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-99017-5_22 Abstract: The chapter analyses the official registers of heritage institutions in Slovenia. It…
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Between March 14 and 19, 2025, the 13th It’s About People conference, organized by Alma Mater Europaea University, was held in Maribor. The theme of the conference was Social and Technological Resilience for Health and Sustainable Development. On March 19, 2025, an online scientific panel entitled “Approaching Salt-working: From Heritage to Experiential Environmental Wisdom” was…
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In collaboration between the research programme “Heritage on the margins: new perspectives on heritage and identity within and beyond the national” (ARIS, P5-0408 (A)) and the research project “Grain of salt, crystallising cohabitation. Salt making as experiential environmental wisdom” (ARIS, J6-50196), the researcher Primož Pipan – Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences…
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Fish is not just a fish. It can also be a means of assessing how heritage, as a particular type of imaginary, conveys social, cultural, political, and economic transformations. According to Salazar (2012), imaginaries are “socially transmitted representational assemblages that interact with people’s personal imaginings and are used as meaning-making and world-shaping devices”. In this…
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Introduction The landscape of the Sečovlje salt pans was studied through literature, films, videos, volunteer work and in-depth visits. This paper highlights the uncoordinated activity between the actors or managers of (new) nature and culture and encourage their integration. In the case of the Sečovlje salt pans, there are two main actors: the Sečovlje Salina…
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Between March 30 and April 1, 2023, a three-day international walking seminar was held in Istria, in the valleys of the Dragonja and Rižana rivers, as part of the project Route biographies: walking and writing as methods for researching border regions (ARRS, J6-4611). Twelve participants took part. Ten participants from the Research Centre of the…
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Špela Ledinek Lozej, a member of multidisciplinary research group Heritage on the margins has together with Nika Razpotnik Visković edited Acta geographica Slovenica 62,2 (2022) Special issue: Branding, labelling and certification and published an introductory article with the title Branding, labelling and certification: Geographical and anthropological insights (DOI: https://doi.org/10.3986/AGS.11265). Link to the journal Acta Geographica Slovenica:…
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Four members of multidisciplinary research group Heritage on the margins have issued 2 chapters in the book: Landscape as Heritage: International Critical Perspectives at the Routledge publishing house. Marjeta Pisk and Špela Ledinek Lozej have written the chapter: Cross-border landscape as heritage? Insights from Slovenian borderlands (DOI: 10.4324/9781003195238-12). Primož Pipan and Maja Topole have written the…
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