Cultural landscapes blog 24.06.2015

Europa Nostra’s ENtopia project and how it’s building a community of practice by Costa Carras If instead of the destructive instrumentalism in relation to a natural world stripped of its value in the search of financial resources to satisfy human beings’ demand for pleasure, power and profit, which has prevailed in recent centuries, human imagination […]

LRG Conference on Energy Landscapes, 16 – 18 September 2015

The Landscape Research Group is involved in the organization of a European conference on Energy Landscapes: Perception, Planning, Participation and Power which will take place on September 16-18, 2015, in Dresden, Germany.     Key questions raised by the conference are: Perception – How is the character, perception, assessment and social construction of landscapes influenced by […]

Cultural landscapes blog 09.06.2015

Who is responsible for landscape stewardship on farm land? by Marianne Penker Many rural landscapes are shaped by centuries of agricultural land use. As agricultural land use practices change, landscapes transform. In fact, transformation is a key-characteristic of any agricultural landscape. Most of these transformations occur without major notice. Others, however, are perceived as unwelcome […]

Landscape as impulsion for culture: research, perception & protection: 29 June – 1 July 2016

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Cracow Landscape Conference 2016 has adopted the title “Landscape as impulsion for culture: research, perception & protection”, and will be held on June 29 – July 1, 2016 in Cracow, Poland. It is organised by the Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University, and the Institute of Landscape Architecture, Cracow University of Technology. […]

Forthcoming conference: SeaScape Ecology: 7 – 8 September 2015

SeaScape Ecology: Connecting Land, Sea and Society in connection with the International Association of Landscape Ecology/UK (IALE UK). The SeaScape Ecology conference will take place on 7-8 September, 2015,  at the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI), with a conference dinner on the 8th.  The conference will be followed by a field trip to the John […]