Understanding Landscapes through Creative Auto-Ethnographies

 

Aims and Objectives

In this series of workshops, geographers and literary scholars are brought together to find common ground and open up new ways of understanding landscape that draw on and combine their disciplinary strengths and address their different weaknesses.

For more details please go to the project summary document

Progress and Highlights

All the workshops and events promised in the original proposal have now run successfully.

These workshops ran with local writers:

• Students from Truro College : a walk and discussion at Porthcurno.
•Members of the Writer's Centre: a walk and discussion at Maenporth; a walk and discussion at Kennal Vale woods.
•Members of the Truro Writers' Group: a walk and discussion between Truro and Malpas, with a follow up discussion at a group meeting in Truro.
• A boat trip on the Fal with Chacewater School , Truro , followed by a classroom session.
• A boat trip on the Fal with Kea School , Truro , followed by a classroom session and a performance of the choral poetry inspired by the trip.
• A walk through Round Wood with pupils from Marlborough School , Falmouth .

These academic events ran:

• Writing Landscape – an interdisciplinary symposium
• Written Landscape – a symposium for writers and scholars
• Text Landscape Identity – an interdisciplinary conference