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What is landscape? A perspective from Cairo
“A more functional perspective quickly demonstrates that humans not only…
Greatham Creek, A Biography of Community and Landscape
Filmmaker, Warren Harrison, captures the memories and experiences of people…
LRG Workshop – How to prepare a successful funding application
LRG was pleased to host our first lunchtime workshop aimed…
An inconspicuous transition – from a clay pit into a mosaic of post-industrial habitats
“To walk attentively through a forest, even a damaged one,…
Enduring Colonialism: Empire and Landscape in Dialogue
On Friday 24th September 2021, the Landscape Research Group held…
The Lake District in a Post-COVID-19 World
COVID-19 has changed some ordinary but essential things usually taken…
Healing landscapes. An encounter between a philosopher of landscape and health professionals
This presentation is about the power of landscape considered as…
Legacy of Yi-Fu Tuan: A Panel Discussion
In honour of Yi-Fu Tuan, geographers from around the globe…
“The happy chance that gives rise to existence”: senses of place around the fire pit
In 2020, an international cohort of cross-disciplinary practitioners gathered online…
Landscape & Language in Literature: Zooming in on Peatlands
With special guest Robert Macfarlane. In this event we will…
Translating Palestinian Landscapes: a performative reading of “landscape” in poetry, literature, music, and photography from Palestine
How does landscape (for which there is no word in…
Conversation with Yi-Fu Tuan and Ken Olwig
A conversation between Yi-Fu Tuan and Kenneth Olwig, chaired by…
Symposium Summary
Kenneth Olwig of Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, presenting…
Trends of landscape appreciation studies at the Japanese Institute of City Planning until 2019
I received a request from the Landscape Research Group to…
The Common Line: engaging landscape and citizenships through art-geography and digital encounters
John Wylie of University of Exeter presenting, ‘The Common Line:…
Of Spinsters and Species: Locating a Bioregionalist Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing
Rachael DeWitt of University of California Davis, presenting ‘Of Spinsters…
Living on the Edge (of Place): Territory, Marginality, Identity and the Uncanny
Joern Langhorst of University of Colorado, Denver, presenting, ‘Living on…
Legacies of Violence: Land, Law, and Indigeneity in the American West
Danika Cooper of UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, presenting,…
Belonging but not Belonging: Center, Periphery, and the Herders of Mustang
Dane Carlson of REALMS, presenting, ‘Belonging but not Belonging: Center,…
Debating landscape citizenship on the coast: conflicting views from the Bulgarian Black Sea and Yorkshire North Sea shores
Anna S. Antonova of University of Leeds, presenting ‘Debating landscape…
Beirut’s shrinking public realm: landscape and political empowerment
Jala Makhzoumi of American University of Beirut, presenting, ‘Beirut’s shrinking…
Citizens of Speculation
Christopher Marcinkoski of University of Pennsylvania School of Design, presenting…
The Constructed Identity of Disaster Aid Workers and Their Place in the Affected Community
Mary M. Nelan of University of North Texas, presenting ‘The…
Unearthing Citizenship in Envirotechnical Waste Landscapes
Catherine De Almeida of University of Nebraska-Lincoln, presenting ‘Unearthing Citizenship…
Spatial inequalities and marginalisation: the border-scape condition of Syrian displaced in Lebanon
Maria Gabriella Trovato from American University of Beirut, presents ‘Spatial…
Reworlding Environmental Policy: How Oysters Come to Matter
Limestone flows. At a geologic pace, it seeps and pools….
Casting a line to place: embodied rituals, cultural landscapes and their potential to (re)connect
A journey of fly-fishing and place identity in Dartmoor, through word, sound and image.
Connecting and Severing: a Deconstruction of the Language of HS2 Ltd
This project reviews some of the language used by the…
Melting the ice in the heart of man
While the melting ice raises seawater levels across the globe,…
Disappearance and enclosure of rural public ways in Spain: Impact on the right to landscape (2017)
The loss of public rights of way in Spain is…
Covid thoughts: Cornwall’s skyscapes
Sarah’s piece on the effect of the Covid19 lockdown on Cairngorms…
Sequel to the Noosa Biosphere Reserve Story: Challenges
A major milestone for the Noosa NBR was approval in…
The Lake District: a landscape where culture and wildness are in harmony?
A short video examining the perspectives and tensions present in…
Peatlands, prosperity and peace: ‘What now for the bogmen?’
Peatlands are contested landscapes in Ireland: important for biodiversity and…
A past of our making: Creating a landscape biography of a rural upland parish in Ireland
The exploration of a region’s landownership, power structures and ensuing…
Integrating cultural landscapes with fishing coastal commons
Looking at landscape justice through the lens of fishing communities…
Working out landscape and time
Exploring ideas of landscape past, present and futures. Drawing on…
Diverse and alive: Landscape care-work with the Gowanus Canal
This case study of the Gowanus Canal Conservancy (GCC) will…
Urban green landscapes, justice, and subtropical Asian cities
Interest is growing in justice questions around climate adaptation through…
Reading between the lines: Landscapes in a state of limbo
Searching for ways to tackle landscape illiteracy in Greece: how…
A Future Of Our Own Making discussion
Discussion between participants as part of LRG’s annual research showcase,…
Covid thoughts: During and after the pandemic, our streets need more democracy
Where does democracy take place? Ask this question of many,…
Covid thoughts: Changing soundscapes in the Cairngorms
The village is empty and the woods are full. Of…
Covid thoughts: Our urban landscapes as critical infrastructure
As countries across the globe focus their energies on reviving…
Covid thoughts: Reopening public green places
As the Westminster government prepares to ease the ‘stay home’…
Covid thoughts: Inequality and access to green space in England
Landscape has never been more critical to the mental health…
Bodies of belonging
This short blog series by Vanessa Lastrucci accompanies our Landscape Symposium…
Valuing arts and arts research
In early 2018, we part-funded a workshop in partnership with Valuing…
Dynamic structure and living systems
On Friday 6 December 2019, we held our annual Symposium…
Staying with the trouble: event programme
On Friday 6 December 2019, we held our annual Symposium…
Staying with the trouble: Practising
On Friday 6 December 2019, we held our annual Symposium…
Staying with the trouble: Belonging
On Friday 6 December 2019, we held our annual Symposium…
To care is to change
This short blog series by Vanessa Lastrucci accompanies our Landscape Symposium…
Never inert, nor fixed
This short blog series by Vanessa Lastrucci accompanies our Landscape Symposium…
Conference programme 2019
Programme for the conference ‘Current perspectives and challenges for landscape…
Hybride Grenzziehungen: saarländische Altindustrielandschaften in der Postmoderne
Presentation by Florian Weber, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken. From the…
Konstruktionen von Landschaft und Gesundheit: Therapeutische Landschaften
Presentation by Joachim Rathmann, University of Würzburg. From the conference…
Urbane Nahrungslandschaften
Presentation by Timo Sedelmeier, University of Tübingen. From the conference…
Social-Media-Harvesting in der landschaftsplanerischen Praxis und Forschung
Presentation by Lucas Kaußen, TH OWL, Höxter. From the conference…
Virtual und Augmented Reality VR/AR
Presentation by Dennis Edler, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum. From the conference ‘Current…
Transdisziplinäre Landschaftsforschung im Konflikt der Denkstile
Presentation by Karsten Berr, University of Tübingen. From the conference…
“Neue” geographische Landschaftsforschung
Presentation by Ludger Gailing, Leibniz Institute for Research on Society…
In search of alternatives to ‘natural capital’ and ‘ecosystem services’
Presentation by Markus Leibeneth, Leibniz-Institut für Ökologische Raumentwicklung (IOER). From…
Perspectiven der Landschaftsforschung in der Geographie
Presentation by Olaf Kühne, University of Tübingen & Deutsche Akademie…
Current perspectives and challenges for landscape research, planning and development
Keynote address by John Wylie, Professor of Cultural Geography and…
Landed: cadastral maps
Artist Rebecca Chesney introduces the project ‘Landed: Cadastral Maps,’ which set out…
De/reconstructing the archive
Aisling O’Carroll’s project ‘De/Reconstructing the Archive‘ looks at the influence…
Community Land Summit UK 2018
The UK’s first Community Land Summit was organised jointly by…
Panel discussion: Language and landscape governance
Panel discussion and Q&A from LRG’s Annual Symposium 2018, ‘Language and landscape governance.’
David Lowenthal and the “quest for the unity of knowledge”
4th and final podcast from LRG’s Annual Symposium 2018, ‘Language and landscape governance,’ by Sverker Sörlin.
Towards landscape democracy and plural land management
3rd podcast from LRG’s Annual Symposium 2018, ‘Language and landscape governance,’ by Michael Jones.
Incorrigibly plural
2nd podcast from LRG’s Annual Symposium 2018, ‘Language and landscape governance,’ by Deirdre Black.
Finding the right words
1st podcast from LRG’s Annual Symposium 2018, ‘Language and landscape governance,’ by Dominick Tyler.
Landscape Justice debate: Professor Emily Brady
Fourth and final speaker at LRG’s annual debate in 2017.
Interpreting the popular English landscape
The sixth Annual Lecture of the Landscape Research Group was…
If the past teaches, what does the future learn?
The fifth annual lecture of the Landscape Research Group was…
Energy Landscapes: Power
Over 16-18 September 2015 in Dresden, Germany, the Landscape Research…
Energy Landscapes: Participation
Over 16-18 September 2015 in Dresden, Germany, the Landscape Research…
Energy Landscapes: Planning
Over 16-18 September 2015 in Dresden, Germany, the Landscape Research…
Energy Landscapes: Perception
Over 16-18 September 2015 in Dresden, Germany, the Landscape Research…
Image, instinct and imagination
In 2015, LRG part-funded an exhibition entitled ‘Image, Instinct and…
Valuing wetlands and wetland values
The Landscape Research Group held their fourth annual lecture in…
The difficulties of designing future coastlines in the face of climate change
The Landscape Research Group’s third annual lecture was held on…
David Lowenthal: From Eden to Earth Day
LRG’s inaugural annual lecture was given by Professor David Lowenthal…
