AraucanAI: A proposal for recovery and intelligent landscape design, enabled by native cultural patterns

This research summarises the groundwork for drafting a methodology and planning a territory with a high symbolic cultural value: Araucanía, Chile. All these elements and approaches to a diverse and multicultural territory make up the systemic and binding methodological framework between qualitative elements (Intangible Cultural Heritage) and quantitative elements (environmental and climatic conditions), all of which make up AraucanAI elements. Thus, the strategic design of the methodology integrates several variables, resulting in a proposal for intelligent rural planning. The elements studied from the patterns of the Mapuche native people collaborate in decision making with respect to both practical and conceptual issues regarding the valuation of the territory and its components, patterns, limits and boundaries. This holistic proposal underlies the intention of developing a territorial regenerative design tool. This new tool represents a basis for the future recovery of a rural territory highly degraded by industrial forestry and home to more than 2,000 native Mapuche communities.