Connecting and Severing: a Deconstruction of the Language of HS2 Ltd (2019)
Reviewing the language used by the Department for Transport, in the guise of HS2 Ltd, to promote and discuss the high-speed rail project.
Project countries: Europe
Boron Landscapes of Turkey (2019)
Establishing the environmental and social impacts of boron mining in Turkey before euphoria outruns risk assessment.
Landscape Education, Heritage and Justice (2019)
The project aims to enhance the awareness on landscape justice and democracy within educational contexts.
Deconstructing the Archive: A philological analysis of the verbal and visual constructs of historical landscape narratives (2019)
The work will focus on the influence that 19th century geological and historiographic studies had in establishing a reading of landscape as a physical archive and informing a new mode of historical engagement with landscape.
Ways and Meanings (2019)
This project will trace and respond to official and unofficial access routes around the South Lake District, with the aim of identifying contrasting understandings of the landscape.
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 a well-known problem, and several associations, such as the PICP (an NGO for the defence of public pathways), actively advocate for their protection.
Nevertheless, the consequences of losing access to such an important common heritage are not well defined. This aim of this project is to gather information about its impact on the ‘right to landscape’, in order to better coordinate activism, improve dissemination and to raise the issue before the relevant administrative bodies.
I live and discover my landscape: the case of UNESCO Sitia Geopark (2017)
The project aims to empower themanagement authority of the Geopark – a proactive project partner – as well as existing grass roots initiatives, so that they can collectively plan and shape a sustainable future for their landscape.
Inequality of access and inclusivity: marginalising children with ‘invisible’ disabilities, and their experience of landscapes (2017)
Kimm’s study evaluates the access policies of heritage organisations to identify gaps in their support for children with unseen disabilities, such as ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder), in landscape initiatives and cultural heritage activities.
Melting the ice in the heart of man (2017)
Environmental neglect and cultural oppression often go hand in hand. This project aims towards a critical understanding of the differences between colonial and indigenous audiovisual perception of the changing arctic environment.
Addressing the scientific isolation of the Sitia Geopark local community (2018)
Kalliope’s project is enabling the community local to the Sitia Geopark to establish and operate an auxillary but essential scientific governance mechanism to take positive actions in formulating and implementing a sustainable strategy for their area.