Researchers of the Chair of Art and Aesthetics of Engineering, from the School of Civil Engineering and the FMA of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, together with members of the Urban Planning and Territorial Planning Group of the School of Civil Engineering of the Universidad de Castilla La Mancha started the first phase of the project in December 2017, selecting and evaluating the 130 most culturally significant heritage elements, creating a portal that services the mobile application and hosting it on the AICCP website.

Agreement FMA – Asociación de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos (AICCP).

Financing Institution: Asociación de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos.

Participating Institutions: FMA – AICCP.

Researchers in charge: Patricia Hernández Lamas (FMA) and Rita Ruiz Fernández (AICCP).

Number of participating researchers: 6.

Web: GOING | Grandes Obras de la Ingenieria

CIIP Presentation of the app GOING Grandes Obras de la INGeniería

Press release ICCP: GOING Grandes Obras de INGeniería

Article: Pilot Project GOING Grandes Obras de INGeniería

Blog: GOING, the app to discover the great works of engineering

Link to the app

Convention FMA – Cátedra Demetrio Ribes.
Financing entity: Ente gestor de la red de transporte y de puertos de la Generalitat Valenciana.
Participating entities: FMA – Cátedra Demetrio Ribes.
Researcher directors: Miguel Aguiló and Inmaculada Aguilar
Nº of participating researches: 7.
Link to open ebook: Guía de Puentes de la provincia de Valencia

Competitive project. Financing entity: Confederación Hidrográfica del Duero – Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente. Participating entities: Fundación Miguel Aguiló Researcher director: Patricia Hernández Lamas Nº of participating researches: 7 Link to the Hispania Nostra prize
Link to the PHDuero App.

Convention FMA – Cátedra Demetrio Ribes.
Financing entity: Ente gestor de la red de transporte y de puertos de la Generalitat Valenciana.
Participating entities: FMA – Cátedra Demetrio Ribes.
Researcher directors: Miguel Aguiló and Inmaculada Aguilar
Nº of participating researches: 7
Link to open ebook: Guía de Puentes de la provincia de Castellón

Convention FMA – Cátedra Demetrio Ribes.
Financing entity: Ente gestor de la red de transporte y de puertos de la Generalitat Valenciana.
Participating entities: FMA – Cátedra Demetrio Ribes.
Researcher directors: Miguel Aguiló and Inmaculada Aguilar
Nº of participating researches: 7.
Link to open ebook: Guía de Puentes de la provincia de Alicante

Financing entity: ETSIA – UPM.
Participating entities: FMA – GIPC (UPM)
Researcher director: Miguel Aguiló Alonso
Nº of participating researches: 6

This study of the La Florida – La Moncloa Grove heritage and landscape is the outcome of joint efforts on the part of interdisciplinary actors and institutions associated with the Complutense and Technical Universities of Madrid.

The work was undertaken to design a common strategy able to embrace all aims and intentions geared to guaranteeing the highest degree of research excellence in such a campus.

Given those objectives, from the outset the cluster coordinators determined that before any sporadic, short-term action could be undertaken, a methodological tool would have to be in place to satisfactorily encompass all the possible initiatives suggested by cluster members and users.

The study was consequently broached from an active policy of sustainable land management in which the landscape is regarded as a legacy meriting protection, with an emphasis on conserving consolidated cultural landscapes. The research parameters revolved around the heritage value of existing buildings and outdoor areas and the characteristics deriving from their particular strategic location. Those were the primary objectives pursued. This research project was of vital importance for enunciating and revealing the distinctive value of the enclave here called 'La Florida - La Moncloa Grove', to reinstate the historic denomination by which this terrain was known at the peak of its splendour.

Financing entity: Proyecto I+D+i Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino.
Participating entities: Fundación Miguel Aguiló.
Researcher directors: Ana Belén Berrocal Menárguez y Patricia Hernández Lamas.
Nº of participating researches: 9.

Three Spanish counties varying widely in their geography and culture were selected for the project: Valencia de Alcántara in the region of Extremadura, Campóo-Los Valles in Cantabria and Cameros Nuevo in La Rioja. That diversity of place, culture and organisational realities provided a sound basis for designing, testing and validating the methodology proposed.

The project team included researchers from different disciplines (civil, forestry and agricultural engineers, architects and geographers), all associated with the Technical University of Madrid through Fundación Miguel Aguiló, an organisation headquartered at the Madrid School of Civil Engineering that engages in landscape and built heritage research.

Highlighting the value of public works should serve as a reminder of the relations with place that the works themselves induced in past generations. It should also recover a people's or a town's identity, often carved in the stone and wood that support bridges and mills, enclose meadows or carry water for livestock. It should unearth rituals, myths and legends around rural humanity's temerity in subjecting or outwitting nature by building bridges and containing floods. The collective subconscious of traditional rural society is rife with images in which public works acquire special symbolic value, today obscured by new transport, power and water supply technologies, among others. Recovering all these meanings of public works is the key to raising social awareness of their heritage value and of the concomitant need for their conservation.

A new way to broach rural public works heritage

The scattered location of rural public works and their close relationship to the landscape suggest the need for innovative interpretative infrastructures. New internet-based reference and location facilities built into mobile devices broaden the opportunities for benefiting from a local heritage. Among others, these applications afford new approaches to cultural travel characterised by a deeper immersion in an area's landscapist and territorial values by furnishing information on what is to be seen and assistance in finding the right path with no need for the supplementary effort entailed in handling maps and guides. These features turn travelling into a wholly different and suggestive, as well as an enormously educational experience. Applications developed for mobile devices enable travellers to design their voyage and access geographic information that guides them along the routes they intend to follow, providing them with a full overview of the history and meanings of a given infrastructure, together with historic illustrations and interpretations of the surrounding landscape. In the context of interpretative infrastructures, augmented reality has taken on particular significance, with its ability to superimpose data and information, graphs or photographs on a view of the real world in real time. VAPROP has added a layer to the open app LAYAR that enables users to take a cultural voyage across the pilot project counties. LAYAR georeferences the works within a radius of 50 km of the visitor's position, providing access to website datasheets, a catalogue of pictures and rafts of geographic information, including old and current plan and Google Earth KMLs. Ancillary audio, video and other text files of interest are also available.
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Financing entity: Instituto Hidráulica Ambiental de la Universidad de Cantabria "IH Cantabria", Grupo de Ingeniería Oceanográfica y de Costas de la Universidad de Cantabria, ETSICCP.
Participating entities: IH Cantabria – FMA.
Researcher director: Jorge Bernabeu Larena.
Nº of participating researches: 4