Creative landscape futures: making decisions with the arts and humanities

Two sessions: Wednesday 1 st and Wednesday 8 th December, each running 10am-12.30pm 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 social sciences on this important topic. Indeterminacy (or uncertainty) is understood to be increasingly significant factor in the context of the accelerating climate and biodiversity changes/crises. Mitigation, resilience and adap

  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