Framtiden för odlingslandskapets bebyggda kulturmiljöer - Konsekvenserna av hanteringen genom landsbygdsprogrammet 2014-2020

Abstract

Sweden sent the last proposal for a new rural development programme(RDP), for the period of 2014-2020, to the European commission in march. It contains fewer measures for the conservation of built heritage than the previous programme and this is a cause for concern, since most of the conservation in the agricultural landscape is financed through the programme. The purpose of this graduating thesis is to explore the theory behind and implementing of the RDP, why the change has been made and what long-term effect this could have on the built heritage in the agricultural landscape. The result of the last RDP and the supposed result of the next RDP is presented and examined with the help of time geography. The results of the last RDP were varying, but the measures for maintenance and restoration of traditional buildings were appreciated by both the users and the authorities. The proposal for a new RDP contains only two applicable measures and they are both targeted at rural development, which is problematic since the professionals testify to several problems in the implementing of those measures. We are simply not ready to rely on them solely, which is unfortunate since the other theoretical possibilities for the financing of conservation are conditioned on the traditional building being part of the pronounced heritage. This also has to do with a split view of the landscape and problems in seeing the landscape as an entity. The probable long-term results of the new RDP, with the interpretation of time geography, are that it creates a new polarization between the traditional buildings that are identified as heritage and the “ordinary” traditional buildings. This polarization threatens to tear apart the entity of the farm, as a space containing objects linked to each other, when the first building gets funding for development while the other is left to decay. The farm will then lose its connection in time and the past will be unreadable for the next generation of visitors.