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LRG Research Fund 2026: Living with slow disaster in Venice
How do we understand a landscape when its future is as important as its past? Annaclaudia Martini is using Venice to rethink landscape biography and explore how people live with gradual environmental change. Combining oral histories, walking interviews, affective mapping and other creative methods, her project asks how memory and anticipation interact in landscapes experiencing “slow disaster” – and whether those insights can help us understand other places facing similarly uncertain futures.
LRG Research Fund 2026: Envisioning Kilifi’s future through the eyes of its young people
Can interactive visualisation give young people a stronger voice in shaping their landscapes? Robert Newell and his team are exploring how digital tools can help communities in Kilifi, Kenya, imagine and engage with possible futures. Working across Kenya and Canada, the project will develop a mobile-friendly visualisation tool through which young people can explore nature-based solutions and contribute their perspectives to local planning and environmental decision-making.
Help shape the future of LRG
The Landscape Research Group is seeking new trustees to help shape the future of landscape research. Join our international Board and contribute to research, publications, governance and community development while supporting an independent charity with a growing global reach.
LRG Research Fund 2026: Four projects selected to pioneer new approaches to landscape research
From Colombia and Malaysia to Italy, Canada and Kenya, this year’s Landscape Research Group Research Fund supports four outstanding projects that are reimagining how landscapes are understood, documented and transformed. Chosen from 70 applications, the successful proposals span Indigenous knowledge, urban heritage, community resilience and participatory landscape planning, reflecting LRG’s commitment to funding internationally collaborative research with lasting impact.
July Trustee Spotlight
Dr Merham Keleg is an interdisciplinary landscape researcher exploring the relationships between people, place and culture through collaborative, internationally connected research. As an LRG Trustee and Research Lead, she oversees the Group’s annual research funding programme while helping to build global collaboration through events, publications and international partnerships.
Landscape, culture and the art of seeing
What do people from different cultures see when they look at the same landscape? As landscape research becomes increasingly international, new studies are revealing both shared patterns of appreciation and culturally distinctive ways of understanding place, enriching rather than replacing existing knowledge.