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Landscapes form part of people’s memories, and they tell stories about human activities through time of their interaction with nature. Landscapes are also an important testimony of the community life trajectory. By using the archaeological method with ethnographical records, Solange Macamo interprets the landscapes to inform about the causes of the origin and transformation of people’s material culture that shaped their cultural identities and contemporary community developments. Examples are taken from the Chongoene and Xai-Xai archaeological sites (Gaza Province, Mozambique) where the author is coordinating two major archaeological and biocultural heritage projects sponsored by Gerda Henkel Foundation, since 2021.

Bio: Solange Macamo, PhD in Archaeology from Uppsala University, Sweden. Associate Professor of Archaeology and Built Heritage at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique. She is the Director of the Faculty Archaeology Museum at UEM, coordinating heritage projects sponsored by Gerda Henkel Foundation in Chongoene and Xai-Xai, Gaza Province, Mozambique. She is also a member of the scientific council of the HERITAGE ORGANIZATION. She works in the fields of archaeology in south central Mozambique, focusing on the walled settlements of the Zimbabwe–Khami Tradition and Principal coordinator of ENTANGLED project.

This presentation will analyse projects funded by international aid on culture, heritage, and sustainable development in Mozambique. This presentation will focus on issues of poverty reduction, and gender equality and identify some suggestions for change.

Bio: Dr Sophia Labadi is Professor of Heritage at SOAS and the University of Kent. Her research in Mozambique, based on ethnography, was published in Heritage for Sustainable Development, published in Open Access by UCL Press and won the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of 2023.

The disconnect between heritage preservation legislation and the reality of the rapid urban transformations in the post-independence period, which do not consider processes of space appropriation, creates a disconnection that hinders public awareness and the maintenance of urban environment quality. The central issue lies in the need to consider architectural heritage as a dynamic field of coexistence and contradiction, where opposing forces — local versus global, national versus international, traditional versus modern, and formal versus informal — shape usage dynamics. This understanding is essential for grasping the processes of cultural appropriation and coexistence to develop effective strategies for the preservation of architectural heritage and prevent its degradation in urban centres.

Bio: Luís Lage graduated in Architecture and Physical Planning from UEM and earned a PhD in 'Survey, Analysis and Representation of Architecture and Environment' at the University of Rome “La Sapienza', Italy. He served as Director of the Faculty of Architecture and Physical Planning at Eduardo Mondlane University from 2009 to 2016, where he is an Assistant Professor in the thematic area of Graphic Representation. His main research areas include processes of human settlement in city outskirts and the analysis of architectural typologies. He was President of the Academy of Architecture and Urbanism Schools of Portuguese Language and is currently the President of the Mozambican Order of Architects.

This presentation examines the dilemmas and contradictions surrounding the recognition of the built remains of Portuguese colonial occupation in Mozambique as heritage. Focusing on the modern urban environment, it considers new values and accounts emerging from the everyday experiences of local inhabitants, with the aim of advancing debates on what this heritage means and to whom it belongs.

Bio: Patricia Noormahomed is an integrated researcher at Dinâmia’CET – Iscte and a researcher at ARCHES – University of Antwerp. Trained in architecture with a PhD in Architectural Heritage, her research lies at the intersection of architectural history, critical heritage, and postcolonial studies, aiming to develop new methodological and historical approaches to the Modern Heritage of Africa.

In this presentation, Pamila Gupta will revisit previous ethnographic work conducted in the city of Beira Mozambique on the topic of postcolonial heritage. She suggests a new way of conceptualizing the work of renovation in relation to Portuguese decolonization at three sites: a hotel, a movie theatre, and a café.

Bio: Pamila Gupta is Research Professor at the University of the Free State (South Africa), affiliated with the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies (CGAS). Trained in Anthropology and Historical Studies, she has published widely in the fields of Indian Ocean Visual Cultures (Mozambique, Zanzibar); islands, heritage and design (Goa, Mozambique); and landscape and planetary studies (South Africa).

This presentation aims to analyse the contribution of the historical and cultural heritage of the city of Maputo as a value for the development of tourism in this city. The data show that Maputo's historical and cultural heritage plays a diverse role in tourism development, with an impact on both national and international tourism, as well as promoting educational and cultural tourism. The data indicate that guided visits to monuments are the most popular tourist activity related to Maputo's historical and cultural heritage, followed by exhibitions in museums, and finally, cultural festivals and historical walks.

Bio: Dário Manuel Isidoro Chundo, University Assistant at UP Maputo, PhD in Geography, Master's in Education/Teaching of Geography, and Bachelor's in History and Geography Teaching. His academic work focuses on the study of the impacts of tourism and the contribution of tourism to the enhancement of cultural heritage. His research interests include tourist flows, cultural heritage, urban geography, and urban mobility