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
