Join us via Zoom for the next LRG Research Showcase, featuring a selection of projects funded through LRG’s 2022 Research Fund on Empire and Landscape Dialogue and 2023 Research Fund on Landscapes and Care.
During this event, scholars and practitioners outlined below will discuss their research, the challenges they have explored, and the contributions their work makes to the field of landscape. We will also hear from Dr. Merham Keleg, LRG Trustee and Research Coordinator.
Use the button below to register for the event in advance and mark your diaries for 11th April 2025!
📅 Date: 11th April 2025
🕐 Time: 1 PM BST (London time)
💻 Location: Zoom
LRG 2022 Research Fund Theme: Empire and Landscape in Dialogue
Tom Ó Caollaí – Hedge School 2021
Hedge School 2021 was a mobile architecture and landscape “school” along the Ireland-Northern Ireland border, running from 3 May 2021 – marking the centenary of Partition – to 6 December 2022, the centenary of the Irish Free State.
Inspired by Ireland’s historic hedge schools, the project explored what it means to live across borders today, using site-specific research to examine the histories, geographies, and architectures that shape and are shaped by the border. Through installations and performance lectures, it moved along, across and into the border itself, questioning whether it might ultimately disappear.
Jens Haendeler – LABOURscapes: reclaiming heritage through labour in the settler colonial present
This project explores the intersections of landscape, architecture, and heritage in Israel/Palestine, focusing on how colonial histories of violence are preserved and reinterpreted. By focussing on re-appropriating the narrative over Palestinian ‘workforce’ and struggling against a status quo that alienates their labour, the project explores the question of “right over heritage”, through the lenses of labour, and through the voices of those who have built the architecture and infrastructure on which the colonial Israeli state relies.
Michael Feinberg – Caribbean Landscapes and agencies beyond the human in British print culture surrounding the Haitian revolution
This project examines Isaac Taylor’s landscape engravings in The History of Jamaica (1774) through historian Vincent Brown’s perspective, considering how they reflect the experiences of Maroons and figures like Dutty Boukman, a key figure in anti-colonial resistance. It explores how landscape imagery in historical illustrations both reinforced imperial control and simultaneously revealed the resistance of Black communities and natural forces against colonial rule.
LRG 2023 Research Fund Theme: Landscapes and Care
Shirley Chubb & Clair Hebron – The Posthuman Walking project
This project explores the experience of walking with pain using wearable technologies across Canada, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, Sweden and the UK. Bringing together researchers in arts, physiotherapy, and anthropology, it examines how different landscapes, climates, and socioeconomic contexts shape movement and pain. Partner-walkers with varied pain conditions, such as Fibromyalgia and long Covid, contributed to the research, which culminated in a website, podcasts and short films.
Ioana Petkova & Valerio Massaro – London’s Common Gardens
Community farms are places of care, for each other and the environment. This project aims to promote and upscale local strategies of care developing a landscape as an infrastructure for learning and knowledge exchange. It will explore how a collaboration between academia and local community groups can catalyse urban transformations and to create an inclusive landscape of care in a polluted brownfield (situated next to a rail track polluted by lead and heavy metals).
What is the LRG Research Fund?
Our International Landscape Research Fund supports a diverse range of small, high-quality, independent research projects. Open to all LRG members, it provides annual grants for interdisciplinary and socially just landscape research.
The 2025 Research Fund launches on 1st April 2025, focusing on Landscape and Mobility: Understanding movements of people,
species and ecosystems in the Anthropocene. More details on this year’s theme and application process will be available soon – subscribe to the LRG newsletter and follow us on social media to stay updated.
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