Landscape and Ecoculture
Lucy Lippard has written that “A map is a composite of places, and
like a place, it hides as much as it reveals. It is also a composite of
times, blandly laying our on a single surface the results of billions of
years of activity by nature and humanity.” For me, this explains
accurately what we do to landscapes. We colonise them and own them. But
there are many ways of thinking about and relating to landscapes apart
from this. In this flag I hope you will see what I mean.
Landscapes of Exile
A series of conferences on what exile means in terms
of place and home.
The Durrell School of Corfu
Offers a variety of activities, ranging
from an inclusive two-week academic programme to single excursions
that explore the rich cultural history of the Mediterranean.
Transformations
Online journal of region, culture and society
Space and Culture
“
Space is the aspect of human condition most strongly affected by the
current cultural change; and a factor most strongly influencing the direction
and the substance of that change. Tracing, monitoring and recording the
complex interaction and mutual impact of space and culture is a task
whose importance and urgency can hardly be equaled by any other topic
on the social-scientific agenda, and Space and Culture journal has performed
that task over recent years with thoroughness and consistency unequalled
by any other periodical or serial publication. Just as the journal's
subject matter is central to the present-day social sciences, so has
the journal become central to their practitioners. " - Zygmunt
Bauman, 2001.
Writing by Baden Offord Mapping the Rainbow Region
Set in the rainbow region of northern NSW, this essay explores feelings
of belonging considered in a self-reflexive journey through two landscapes
- one theoretical, one physical/metaphysical. It argues that through
the quilting of memories, critical reflections, anecdote, fictional
readings, interviews and thick description, belonging becomes articulated
through a spatial prism and imbrication of cultural fields and flows.
Thinkers
James Lovelock
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