LANDSCAPE AND ENVIROMENT AND RESEARCHING ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
On 7th April 2009 the Landscape and Environment Programme co-hosted a workshop entitled "Researching Environmental Change: Workshop exploring the contribution of arts and humanities research" with the Arts and Humanites Science and Heritage Programme www.heritagescience.ac.uk.
Details on the workshop can be found below. The workshop was run in order to feed into a network call examining how arts and humanities perspectives can impact on environmental change.
NEW PROGRAMME NETWORK CALL
Proposals are now being invited for Networks under a call entitled Arts and Humanities Approaches to Researching Environmental Change. The aim is to establish distinctive, innovative and engaging arts and humanities research perspectives on environmental change through networks of the highest quality and international significance. The network activities funded under this competition will be expected to run for between six months and one year, and each award can be up to a value of £30,000 fEC. Please download this PDF or MSWORD document for further information or go to the AHRC website
The deadline is 4pm Thursday 10th December 2009.
Please note that the Je-S form won't be available until 20th October
RESEARCHING ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE WORKSHOP
PROGRAMME - Download PDF version 
The first half of the programme introduced four speakers.
Keynote speaker - Mike Hulme, Professor of Climate ChangeKeynote – Mike Hulme, Professor of Climate Change, University of East Anglia. |
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Case study 1 – Ben Cowell, Assistant Director, External Affairs, The National Trust.
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Case study 2 – Kathryn Yusoff (Lecturer in Human (and Non Human) Geography, Exeter University) and Jennifer Gabrys (Lecturer in Design, Goldsmiths) |
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Speaker 4 - Andrew Watkinson , Director of Living With Environmental Change Programme |
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The second half of the programme was a facilitated session where groups of delegates revolved around eight tables to discuss questions set as part of the theme.
Table 1 and 2 Histories of environmental change • How can histories of environmental change engage effectively with current concerns about recent events and future scenarios? These include histories tracing continuity as well transformation over the long term as well shorter term histories focussed on specific, perhaps extreme, environmental events. • How are environmental histories produced, at an academic and popular level? What are the issues of evidence (including oral and archival sources) of explanation (including narrative and diagrams) and position (including the particular sites on which histories are based and the venues in which they are produced)?
Table 3 and 4 Representing environmental change • How can perspectives of arts and humanities scholarship focussed on rhetorical and representational strategies, engage effectively with current issues of environmental change ? This includes the framing of literary and art historical issues in environmental terms and the critical analysis of how environmental change is imagined in past and present scientific and policy documents • What can research in the practice-led creative and performing arts (including design and exhibition curation) contribute to our understanding of environmental change, both at the level of explanation and communication?
Table 5 and 6 Knowledge and value • How can we ensure that the complex philosophical and cultural issues of human value, authority and responsibility are represented in current discussions on environmental livelihood and sustainability? • What are the key challenges and opportunities arising from the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of environmental change?
Table 7 and 8 Material culture and sustainability • What are the implications of environmental change concerns for organisations, infrastructure and events related to the arts and humanities, including the curation of museums, libraries and archives, management of endangered heritage sites and organisation of large scale travelling exhibitions? • Is there a role for organisations related to arts and humanities, including museums, libraries and archives, of engaging communities with current and future environmental change by explaining the everyday interaction of historic materials and assemblages with their environment? |
