In concluding this book, the author presents the initial thoughts in which context both 2D and 3D representations can be found regarding employment of digital methods for translating past, present, and future art and architecture objects into virtual reality. Approaches to this can be grouped into 3D city models, digital modelling of landscape, digital survey of building and landscape, employment of digital photo and video and their mapping and participative methods of mapping and modelling for decision making. This grouping led to the structure of the book, which is presented here. Authors from leading laboratories in the field in Europe, with whom the author collaborated through exchange visits, common applications, networks, and conference participation were invited either as authors or reviewers. The framework of the cooperation is presented. In detail, a review of Digital Landscape Architecture 2013 is given as an example. Conclusions are drawn on how this networking influenced the research presented in this book which contributed to the overall framework of NeDiMAH research, highlighting thus the way virtual mobility can contribute to research. Future initiatives are also presented.

This study aims at promoting the research methodologies applied in landscape studies in all their quasi-natural, urban anthropogenic and cultural and historical components and on all research scales (at a macro-territorial, mezzo-territorial, or detail level). The study materialized in a series of case studies decrypted as being evolution research that focused on the serious issues of the loss and destruction of the cultural landscape heritage and of the decrease of green areas, of public spaces, and of valuable urban landscapes in Bucharest, Romania, especially in the context of historical evolution, including the communist and post-communist, transition period.

The project was conducted by studying historical records from the past until the present day, by using a transdisciplinary and multicriteria approach (Crăciun Metode de Abordare si Cercetare Exploratorii in Urbanism si Peisagistică. Epistemologia și Transdisciplinaritatea – Instrumente de cercetare a Peisajului Natural, Antropic și Cultural [Exploratory methods of approach and research in urban planning and landscape studies. Epistemology and transdisciplinarity – instruments in researching the natural, anthropogenic and cultural landscape], “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture Publishing House, Bucharest (2012)) and by overlapping historical, urban, and architectural layers and elements, by overlaying genius-loci and material and immaterial cultural landscape elements and by converging social, demographic, legislative, anthropological, linguistic, and archival components.

The research is based on the study of historical gardens that have totally or partially disappeared and that have a symbolic value and a coagulating function within the urban space and within the immaterial cultural landscape (traditions, general and local customs, etc.). The project highlights the expansion, development, and especially the decrease, destruction, and elimination of the landscape heritage and green areas, as well as of the urban-community areas in the last decades, by analyzing what has existed until present times with the purpose of achieving a balance in the time/space relationship within the landscape.

The complexity of the world outlook nowadays annihilates the pyramid of the classical outlook of articulating the subjects which consider physics domain as a basis, creating a real disciplinary subject “bing-bang”. The field of every subject is getting more and more restricted, which makes today the dialogue among them more and more difficult, if not impossible. The need for bridges among various fields and subjects has materialized itself in the appearance at the end of the twentieth century, of the pluridisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity concepts, as a complex phenomenon, generator of innovation in the field of the urban landscape metabolism as well by fragmentation of subjects, recombining them, diffusion of concepts and resorting to methods from other fields of activity. At the beginning of the new millennium, however, the interdisciplinary approach was rediscovered and used as an answer to the unprecedented challenge launched by the world we live in a “manifesto” of what was among and beyond the subjects, in a new approach, in order to express the need to get over the frontiers among subjects, expressing the need for unity both within the urban field and the landscape one. The methodology of transdisciplinary research is determined by Levels of Reality, The Logic of Included Tertiary and Complexity, which are at the same time the three postulates of modern science, unchanged from Galileo to our day, in spite of the appearance of the infinite diversity of methods, theories or patterns that have covered the history of various scientific fields of activity. Disciplinarity, pluridisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity are complementary, representing “the four arrows of the one and the same bow: that of knowledge”, making reference to the idea of scientific integration, to the “great book of nature”, in which every scientific subject or art is responsible for a segment of the whole. Transdisciplinarity is complementary to the disciplinary approach out of the confrontation among fields and subjects bringing about new results and new bridges among them, offering a new view on nature and reality.

This article is a component of the Study of the Protection, Management and Development of Landscape in Braila County. 2009–2011. Phase III. 2011, consisting of two parts: Identifying potential risky areas and determining the influence of risk on the county landscape. Identifying specific types of hazards and vulnerabilities relevant for territorial development. The study radiographed landscape in all its components (natural, anthropogenic and cultural), from a macro-area landscape, of a territorial county level. Our research methodology is the first one in landscape in Romania to be applied to case studies of Braila County, an area located on the Danube River, near the Danube Delta, an administrative area structure with significant heritage values. We highlighted areas of potential risk landscape and its interaction in fragile landscape typologies; e.g., specific hazards, and vulnerability of the natural environment and specific, complex anthropogenic landscape of human settlements (in terms of architectural, urban, agriculture and forestry), and specific cultural landscape hazards and vulnerabilities (traditions, customs and local beliefs, traditional costume, ancestral music and dance, ornaments and typology of popular architecture, traditional crafts, local personalities, anthropological components, etc). By identifying priorities for intervention, we created two versions of a conceptual schema proposal type at macro- and mezzo-levels of landscape in Braila county. In the end (Phase IV), the overlap reached a final version, which was detailed in the last phase of the study, with proposals focused on strategy and reference to each administrative unit of the county.