Creative landscape futures: making decisions with the arts and humanities

  Call for participants: Indeterminacies: arts and landscapes Two sessions: Wednesday 1 st and Wednesday 8 th December, each running 10am-12.30pm Deadline for Proposals: Monday 15 th November 4pm. Organising Committee: Jo Vergunst, Dee Heddon, Chris Fremantle, David Edwards, Anne Bevan. This online event brings together the Creative Landscape Futures research network ( https://creativelandscapefutures.blogspot.com/ ) with the NewLEAF Future of UK Treescapes project ( https://www.uktreescapes.org/announcement-of-the-first-set-of-future-of-uk-treescapes-projects/ ). There is a shared interest in indeterminacy and the ways that it is engaged with across natural & social science, arts and humanities research in and for landscape decision-making. The event will not be a conference but rather a shared multi-disciplinary thinking space to enable ideas and research to develop with a particular focus in bringing the arts into discourse with the natural and

  Fences, dust and wind: Kite Aerial Photography at the edgelands of Aberdeen Harbour Expansion   An event associated with the AHRC network Creative Landscape Futures: Making Decisions with the Arts and Humanities.   Led by Jvan Yazdani, PhD in Anthropology from Sapienza University of Rome.   This workshop will take its participants to the ‘edgelands’ of Aberdeen Harbour Expansion Project , to observe – through camera-mounted kites – how construction manifests itself beyond its established boundaries: from fencing to road works to dust, stockpiled materials and construction units, but also elements of Corporate ‘Social and Environmental Responsibility’ such as landscaping, community investment funding, mitigation and compensation plans, along with machinery noise, lines on grass and in soil.   Kites offer playful ways of engaging with the landscape and doing research: they literally uplift you. Sailing the kite becomes one with walking, or wayfaring, a

Our first network meeting took place at the University of Aberdeen on 6-7 February 2020. Here is the schedule and a report on what happened. Thursday 6 February Meet 1-2pm, Sir Duncan Rice Library, ground floor cafe. 2.00 - Seminar room 224, Floor 2 Sir Duncan Rice Library: Welcome and introductions from Jo Vergunst and Anne Bevan. First thoughts from the whole group. 3.00 - Richard Irvine will present a 'full length' seminar that is also part of the Department of Anthropology's weekly seminar series: 'Time horizon: Biographical geology on the West Shore, Stromness, Orkney' 5.00 - Post-seminar drink at the Machar Bar on campus, followed by dinner in town at 7.00: La Lombarda, 2-8 King St, Castlegate, Aberdeen AB24 5AX. Friday 7 February Meeting room 1, Floor 7, Sir Duncan Rice Library. 9.30: Scope and scales - locating landscape decision-making. Presentation from Dave Edwards and group discussions. 11.00: Break 11.15: Presentations: Tim C

This blog is for news, information and chat about the AHRC research network 'Creative landscape futures: making decisions with the arts and humanties'. Principal Investigator: Jo Vergunst , University of Aberdeen Co-Investigator: Anne Bevan , Orkney College, University of the Highlands and Islands The network runs from February 2020 to February 2022. From our original proposal, here's the summary of what the network will do. This research network will bring together academics and a range of stakeholders to explore the ways that arts and humanities research can contribute to decision-making about landscapes. Our focus is Scotland, which has its own legal setting and distinctive forms of land ownership - and distinctive landscapes - and we will also make connections with the rest of the UK and beyond. We will hold a series of seminars to share insights, with some hosted by our non-academic stakeholder participants, and carry out further field visits to meet with