Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Landscape Institute Conference: Landscape as Infrastructure

Landscape as Infrastructure

Landscape Institute Conference, 22-23 June 2017 :

 




 
Images: Ilbin YOON, MA Landscape Architecture student at WUC. Urban Territory Studio Project
 
 

“Landscape is a regulator of endless processes, producer and consumer of raw materials, highly multifunctional and synergistic.”

Pollalis, S. N., 2016. Planning Sustainable Cities: An infrastructure-based approach. London: Routledge.

“Landscape is the primary infrastructure.”

 
Landscape practitioners are significantly involved in major infrastructure projects, increasingly playing a leading role. The way in which landscape works as an infrastructure in its own right, as well as the need to rethink conventional infrastructures as landscapes will be at the heart of the LI’s annual conference, due to take place on 22 and 23 June 2017 in Manchester in partnership with the LI North West Branch, Manchester Metropolitan University and University of Manchester.

Day one of the conference will include plenary sessions of around 20-40 minutes each. On the second day we will explore a number of CPD-approved seminars and discussions under the banner of the conference. Day two will also include guided site visits in and around the city centres of Manchester and Salford.

For more information: https://www.landscapeinstitute.org/event/li-conference-2017/

Thursday, 12 January 2017

Discovering the Landscape: landscape research bursaries available


The University of Reading acquired the library and archive collections of the Landscape Institute in 2013.  Since then we have been working to make the collections available to researchers.  We are now in the position to offer bursaries to encourage collections use and engagement. 

Student travel bursaries

The purpose of the student travel bursaries is to enable students to access collections held at Reading related to landscape, including landscape design, management and architecture.
We are offering 2 bursaries of £150 each.
Applications will be by email to merl@reading.ac.uk (please put “Landscape Bursary” in the subject line) will be invited from any student in part or full-time higher education.
Interested applicants should submit a CV, and a short statement (max 400 words) outlining their interest in and current work on landscape, stating how the bursary would be spent and how it would be beneficial to their studies.  Applicants should identify those materials in the archive that would be of most benefit to them.

Academic engagement bursary

The purpose of this award is to encourage academic engagement with collections held at Reading related to landscape, including landscape design, management and architecture.
Successful proposals will attract a stipend of £1,000. The funding can be used to offset teaching and administration costs, travel and other research-related expenses. Appropriate facilities are provided and the successful applicant will be encouraged to participate in the academic programmes of the Museum.
The intention for this award is to create an opportunity for a researcher to develop and disseminate new work in the broad arena of landscape.
Applications will be by email to merl@reading.ac.uk  (please put “Landscape Bursary” in the subject line).  Interested applicants should submit a CV and a statement (max 800 words) outlining their interest in, and current work on, landscape.

For informal enquiries please email c.l.wooldridge@reading.ac.uk

Monday, 9 January 2017

International Conference on Landscape Futures




















The Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (IGN), University of Copenhagen, in association with UNISCAPE and the Centre for Landscape Democracy (CLaD), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, is pleased to announce a call for papers for an international conference on Landscape Futures to be held at the University of Copenhagen, 19-21 June 2017. We invite landscape researchers, practitioners and others with an interest in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches.

For more information: http://ign.ku.dk/landscape-futures