Impact Fellowship events
A number of different events have been organised through the Impact Fellowship. These include a workshop series, film screening and discussion, live performance and a final showcase event.
Workshops
A series of four workshops were organised as part of the Impact Fellowship and were held throughout June 2011. These workshop events were designed to bring people who have been involved in Landscape and Environment projects together to review the achievements and public value of the programme, and to discuss emergent themes and issues with other interested academic parties, creative practitioners, landscape managers, and representatives from Impact Fellowship partner organisations. Participation was by invitation only. Please see the individual workshop pages for more details and reports of the events.
Date: 3rd June 2011
Venue: School of Geography, University of Nottingham
Rationale: This workshop brought together researchers from a number of projects funded by the programme, other interested academic parties, and creative practitioners. The event expanded discussions resulting from the Landscape and Environment multidisciplinary conference on ‘Literary Geographies’ (2007), inviting participants to share ideas about the writing process (including writing as research method) and discuss the ways that different types of writing (creative, academic, environmental, legal, scientific) influence and are influenced by landscape. Public value was a key theme for the day.
Date: 5-6th June 2011
Venue: North Lincolnshire
Rationale: This event brought together researchers from a number of projects funded by the Landscape and Environment programme with other interested academic parties, creative practitioners, and landscape managers.
The workshop involved visits to a number of sites which feature in the ‘soundwork’ Warplands by Professor Mike Pearson (University of Aberystwyth) and composer John Hardy, commissioned as part of the Impact Fellowship.
The workshop allowed participants to engage with the conceptualisation of the performance piece and to input their own reactions to the North Lincolnshire landscape. More broadly the group considered the potential for the performative and site-specific dimensions of research to generate new engagements with landscape and to transform our perceptions and valuations of particular places and landscapes.
Date: 14th June 2011
Venue: Royal Geographical Society, London
Rationale: This workshop brought together the Principal Investigators from the Researching Environmental Change (REC) networks, other key network members, collaborative external partners (including representatives from the Royal Geographical Society and the National Trust) and other interested parties to discuss network outcomes, share learning experiences and generate ideas for future funding. The public value of the activities undertaken by the REC networks and more generally the importance of arts and humanities perspectives on environmental change, particularly in contributing to the cross-council Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) programme were subjects for discussion. Participants were invited to explore different methods of public engagement and the possibilities offered by different narratives and histories of environmental change (global, scientific, local, cultural, negative, positive, amateur, professional).
Date: 28th June 2011
Venue: National Trust Central Office, London
Rationale: This workshop brought together researchers from a number of projects funded by the programme that have a heritage context, other interested academic parties, creative practitioners, and heritage managers (including representatives from Fellowship partners the National Trust and English Heritage). Participants were invited to share ideas about narrating and valuing landscape and environment. The difference heritage designations make to landscape/environment was considered, alongside issues of exhibiting and communicating landscape, and encouraging use while conserving for the future.
Film screening and discussion - Robinson in Ruins
The Future of Landscape and the Moving Image - screening and discussion
Date: 23rd and 24th June 2011
Venue: Broadway cinema, Nottingham (screening) and University of Nottingham (discussion)
Rationale: The team involved in the large project The Future of Landscape and the Moving Image conducted a nationwide tour of universities in 2011. The Impact Fellowship Directorate organised the Nottingham stop which involved an evening screening of Robinson in Ruins and a panel discussion (involving Patrick Keiller, Doreen Massey, Patrick Wright, Matthew Flintham and discussants Nick Alfrey and David Matless from the University of Nottingham) the following day.
Live performance - Warplands
Date: 1st September 2011
Venue: Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London
Rationale: The performance 'soundwork' Warplands commissioned by the Impact Fellowship was performed live by Mike Pearson and John Hardy for the first time at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference 2001.
RGS-IBG Warplands gallery