The visual, performing and literary arts play an important and evolving role in shaping experiences and appreciations of landscapes as well as providing critical and cultural understanding of them.![](https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/the-forum/files/2018/02/AALERT-1-300x150.jpg)
In recent years, the significance of the arts in landscape and environmental research has been increasingly emphasised, with arts and humanities components now a common, if not required, element in research proposals, such as activities delivered through the Valuing Nature research programme. Similarly, many and diverse landscape management projects with arts-based elements are funded by public money.
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AALERT![](https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/the-forum/files/2018/02/AALERT-1-300x150.jpg)
A one-day workshop to explore the role of Arts and the Artist in Landscape and Environmental Research Today.
15th February 2018; 9.30 am – 6.00 pm
Central London
Get more details on the project in this blog post >
Schedule
- 9.30 Registration opens – Tea and Coffee
- 10.00 Opening of workshop – Introductions
- 10.10 Scope and Prospects – by organisers and funders
- 10.30 Keynote 1 – Prof Stephen Daniels – Followed by questions
- 10.55 Keynote 2 – Prof Lise Autogena with Joshua Portway – Followed by questions
- 11.20 Introduction to discussion themes
- 11.40 Refreshments
- 11.55 Group discussions – session 1
- 12.55 Lunch
- 13.55 Group discussions – session 2
- 14.55 Coffee break
- 15.05 Merging outcomes per theme
- 15.15 Feedback to the room
- 16.15 Closing remarks
- 16.30 Workshop ends
- 16.45 – 17.45 – Guided tours
More information on the AALERT project >