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Inclusive Landscape Transformations

This programme fosters transdisciplinary research into landscape transformations, in pasts, presents and futures. It stimulates critical analysis of landscapes and spatial interventions focusing on power relationships, inclusivity, equity, justice, participation and emancipation. The ways in which history and heritage play through these processes of change are a key interest of the research.

The climate crisis, the recent global pandemic and the growing digitalization of society have profound effects worldwide and challenge current ways of life – for example demonstrating the limits of expanding consumption and threatening rural livelihoods. These trends and their effects have also raised awareness of the disparities between different groups in society, in terms of living conditions, levels of sovereignty, acute danger, etc. Interconnected landscapes – as material and cultural manifestations of society – are a crucial scale at which to understand and address these disparities in an inclusive and just manner.  

Landscape research has in recent decades grown enormously as a field of scientific endeavour, with a variety of disciplines offering new perspectives and methods and interdisciplinary programmes seeking to offer more holistic understandings. This programme seeks to contribute to this booming field and inform inclusive landscape transformation by building a community of researchers from a variety of scientific domains, conducting research in close collaboration with engaged societal partners and developing comparative perspectives on inclusivity in current landscape transformations and historical ones. 

This transdisciplinary focus asks for new forms of working together. The programme aims to host various events focusing on academic empirical, conceptual and methodological exchange as well as topics such as pedagogies for inclusive landscape transformations, inter- and transdisciplinary academic collaboration, grant writing, developing meaningful relations with partnering centres and societal partners, and more. 

Partnering knowledge institutions and platforms 

  • International Association of Landscape Archaeology (IALA)
  • Amsterdam Centre for the History and Heritage of Protestantism (ACHHP) 
  • Spatial Information Laboratory (Spinlab) 
  • Amsterdam Centre for Ancient Studies and Archaeology (ACASA)
  • Amsterdam Sustainability Institute
  • Athena Institute
  • Amsterdam Young Academy
  • Kenniscentrum Ongelijkheid (collaboration between Gemeente Amsterdam, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, VU and UvA)
  • Reinwardt Academie
  • Erfgoed Academie

Engaged societal partners

  • Civilscape
  • Monumenten & Archeologie Amsterdam
  • Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, afdelingen Landschap en Archeologie
  • Rijkswaterstaat/Programma Rijke Waddenzee
  • Waddenacademie

Partnering dissemination platforms

  • Journal of European Landscapes (Amsterdam University Press)
  • Landscape and Heritage Book Series (Amsterdam University Press)
  • European Heritage Tribune

Upcoming events by this research programme:

  • 9 April: Speed dating Inclusive Landscape Transformations
  • 5, 6 or 7 June (t.b.a.): Transnational, Transformative, Transdisciplinary...?? Pasts, presents, futures & socio-ecological challenges
  • 13 June: Final presentation Burning Lowlands Dream Team
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Research Coordinators: Evelien de Hoop and Niels van Manen

Evelien de Hoop (Athena Institute, Faculty of Science) researches and teaches on the intersections between socio-ecological landscape change and health. Academically, she is rooted in Science and Technology Studies (STS), critical geography, post- and decolonial studies and connected history, among others. She has a leading role in various international projects including NWO-funded project Soy Stories, H2020 project FoodCLIC and Alternatives2Extractivism. Her work is distinctly transdisciplinary, connecting the Inclusive Landscape Transformations’ research agenda to those of a wide variety of relevant societal partners across the globe.

Niels van Manen (School of Business and Economics) is the second co-research coordinator of the Landscapes in Transition program since its establishment in 2022. He is researcher at the departement of Spatial Economics of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and at SPINLab. He is also Team Leader of the Digital Spatial Humanities research team and he coordinates UNIGIS Amsterdam. He teaches at the Amsterdam University College and VU Learn! Academy. 

Featured Researcher: Maciej Jakub Swiderski, PhD Researcher

Featured Researcher: Maciej Jakub Swiderski, PhD Researcher

“The focus of my interest is the intersection of heritage and spatial planning. The general topic of my research relates to how gamified designs can be used to facilitate the dialogue between various stakeholders in the context of late-modernist housing estates. It’s tackling issues such as collaborative design, problematic heritage, personal memories and mnemonic and emotional landscapes.” Maciej combines Urban Planning & Humanities approaches.

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