SESSION 3: HISTORIES, Fri 20 Nov 2020

Seán Laoide-Kemp (Masters by Research Student, IADT Dún Laoghaire), Landscape as Witness: Aftermath Photography, Oral History, and Ethnography in Representing the Public Works Scheme of the Great Irish Famine

Joe Crowdy (PhD Candidate, Oslo Centre for Critical Architecture Studies), Writing Rack Fen: 1583-1606 and 2019-20

Dr Frances Robertson (Lecturer, GSA) Alien Introductions: trees, memory and landscape history

Respondent Michail Mersinis (GSA)

The panel expanded upon the ways art practice and historical research investigate this theme to address land as witness, oral histories, cultural perspectives shaped by politics and memory, through issues of heritage, ecology and conservation.