Landscape stories: an investigation of organisations’ and diverse audiences’ narratives of the countryside to advance justice (2020)

Dr Laura Hodsdon, Falmouth University Project summary Working with the National Trust (NT), this project uses Wembury in South-East Devon as a test-bed to surface stories (real or imagined) about the landscape from organisations and individuals from diverse audiences, to create an impactful action plan for the NT to ensure ‘everyone is welcome’, contribute to […]

Forest fire and indigenous landscape identity (2020)

Dr Andrew Butler, Dr Annette Löf and Dr Sara Holmgren, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Project summary This project aims to investigate the consequences of forest fires in the Swedish boreal forest from the Sami landscape perspectives compared with the dominant discourse. Fire causes dramatic and abrupt landscape change reaching beyond the visible, physical and […]

Rewilding the popular imagination through visual narratives (2021)

Dr Jo Phillips, Manchester Metropolitan University Project summary This project aims to identify and illustrate themes for use in creating future visual narratives of rewilding projects, to be used to communicate the concept of rewilding to the widest possible audience, and thereby to engage the popular imagination. Existing literature in the field of rewilding has […]

Out of focus: cinematic readings of a shaken landscape (2021)

Picture shows a montage of shots including mineral extraction, and indigenous artefacts © Louis Braddock Clarke and Zuzanna Zgierska

Louis Braddock Clarke and Zuzanna Zgierska, The Royal Academy of Art, Netherlands Project summary ‘Out of Focus’ is an experimental documentary film, which samples the shifts in iron magnetism in Greenland to navigate the intersections of climate change, mineral extraction, indigenous cosmology, and post-colonialism. The core narrative takes place at Cape York, Greenland, where 10,000 […]

Landscape relationships between outdoor recreation and public history in the US South (2021)

Biggs Horton Grove - white building with red roof stands afar across a field lined with trees

Mary T Biggs, University of North Carolina Project summary This research will examine the historical and spatial relationships between U.S. landscapes of public history and landscapes of outdoor recreation shape understandings of the past, the natural world, and social justice. What can we learn by interrogating the institutional and physical relationships between these two overlapping, […]

Carbon afterlives: coal landscapes, addiction and the end of mining in Fife (2021)

Coal landscape in Fife, Scotland

Richard Denis Gerard Irvine and Dr Laura Roe, University of St Andrews Project summary This project examines the former mining landscape of Fife to understand the ongoing social relation with coal and the end of mining. It does so in the face of a moral dissonance: from the perspective of our planetary climate, the closure […]

What is it that we like about landscapes and why? (2021)

rugged coastal landscape

Dr Jane Russell-O’Connor, South East Technological University, Ireland Project summary This project aims to investigate why people are drawn to certain types of landscapes and how being immersed within them promotes a sense of connection with the environment and other landscape users. It will focus on the experiences of visitors and inhabitants in the coastal […]

Connecting and Severing: a Deconstruction of the Language of HS2 Ltd (2019)

The Journey Starts Here reads a sign that symbolises the start of the HS2 development amongst high rise buildings

Project summary This project reviews some of the language used by the Department for Transport, in the guise of HS2 Ltd, to describe and promote the UK’s largest ever high-speed rail project, and to encourage public acceptance of the scheme. The work is entirely focused on how landscape justice/injustice might be performed through the language […]