From the journeys imagined by Jules Verne to the landscapes explored by Hergé, art, literature, and territories of adventure have acted as essential vehicles for understanding and conveying interest in nature.
The conference Naturaleza y paisaje. De la fascinación a la conservación (Nature and Landscape. From Fascination to Conservation) provides a journey through the profound relationship that humans have historically maintained with nature through the landscape. From aesthetic emotion and discovery to awareness of its value and the need to protect it, landscapes have acted as much more than a mere backdrop: they are a source of knowledge, cultural inspiration, and environmental commitment.
Eduardo Martínez de Pisón, geographer, mountaineer, writer, and committed advocate for the conservation of natural spaces, explores how humanity has interpreted nature and landscapes, especially mountains, transforming physical experience into emotion, narrative, and artistic creation.
The event also examines the evolution from feeling to conservation, analysing the origins of the first environmental protectors and highlighting two key ideas: the immense value of natural landscapes and the need to preserve them as shared heritage.
Geographer, mountaineer, writer, lecturer, and leading figure in Spain for the conservation of nature, he is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the Autonomous University of Madrid. In 1991, he received the national Environment Award and has remained closely linked to Spain’s National Parks, where he has held the position of Chair of National Parks, acted as member of the “Comité Científico de Parques Nacionales (Scientific Committee of National Parks)”, and sat on governing boards of Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park and Teide National Park. He is currently a member of the governing board of the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park.
Author of over 700 publications on natural landscapes and cultural and environmental geography, he is also an internationally leading authority on ice and glaciers, having served as correspondent for the World Glacier Monitoring System and chair of the “Comité español para la Investigación científica de la Antártida (Spanish Committee for Antarctic Scientific Research)” in the 1990s.
With a journalism degree from Francisco de Vitoria University (UFV), he has worked on over 20 television programmes, specialising in the production and direction of reports and documentaries in 40 countries around the world.
He currently coordinates and hosts “La Aventura del Saber” on TVE’s La 2 and is collaborating host for the podcast and videopodcast “Despierta tu Curiosidad” by National Geographic.
“Kalipay” is his first documentary as director and producer. It was broadcast on Documentos TV (La 2) and received several awards and selections at national and international film festivals.
All funds raised from the Conference Series 2026 shall be allocated to the project Dual Pathology Day Centre, by the FOUNDATION PROYECTO HOMBRE MADRID.
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