Practicing Landscape: Land, Histories and Transformation Online Symposium was curated to complement the exhibition Practicing Landscape: Land, Histories & Transformation that comprised practice-led research held at the Lighthouse, Glasgow (25 Jan-22 March 2020). The exhibition utilised the gallery as a dynamic space where reflexive curatorial, creative and theoretical practices relating to current debates in landscape research were investigated by the artists and explored with a wider public over the exhibition period, creating an important framework for new practice-led and applied research to be disseminated to diverse audiences. For the Practicing Landscape: Land, Histories and Transformation Online Symposium, academic papers, selected through a double peer review process, were chosen to complement and extend themes addressed in the exhibition through practice.

The Symposium was to have taken place on 19-20 March 2020, as the closing event for the exhibition at The Lighthouse, Glasgow. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the symposium transferred online and ran on a weekly basis, over a period of 6 weeks, from 6 November to 11 December 2020.

The format of the Symposium included two invited Keynote speakers – Ingrid Pollard and Dr Louise Purbrick – and also included four thematic sessions, each comprising three speakers, chaired by a respondent from the Reading Landscape Group. Presentations contributing to the Symposium drew upon the exhibition, furthering discussion of the key themes of interest:
– Histories (including land ownership, commons, cultural perspectives, border territories, heritage and preservation);
– Wild spaces (including peripheral territories, deserts, forests or ideas of remoteness);
– People and Place (including alternative voices and experiences of landscape including embodiment and auto-ethnographic practices);
– Contentious Landscapes (including sustainability, interventions, conservation and ecology).

For further information on the Symposium see: https://readingthelandscapesite.wordpress.com/2020/03/12/practising-landscape-land-histories-and-transformation-symposium-19-and-22-march-2020/

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