Just Landscape? 2019: Just Landscape? Diversity, Ethnicity, Representation University of East London, Stratford London, UK, October 26, 2019 |
Conference website | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/just-landscape-diversity-ethnicity-representation-tickets-64723343262 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=justlandscape2019 |
Abstract registration deadline | September 6, 2019 |
Submission deadline | September 26, 2019 |
A One Day Interdisciplinary Conference in Black History Month
Despite high hopes for open spaces as “the foundation for public interaction and social integration” (Urban Task Force, 2005) our urban parks, squares, country parks and rural landscapes are not unproblematically and equally open to all.
In the UK, there is significantly less quality greenspace in neighbourhoods with a high proportion of residents from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds (CABE 2010), and even in parks and other nature spaces accessible to diverse communities, people from non-white backgrounds are frequently under-represented as users (Natural England 2016).
Similar findings in the United States have prompted researchers there to question whether predominantly white landscape professions are creating ethno-racially inscribed landscapes, and so influencing who feels welcome (Byrne & Wolch, 2009).
We ask: Who and what is represented in the landscape? Does power to shape the landscape promote preferred narratives and practices, limiting cultural access? Why are the professions that produce our urban and rural landscapes not more ethnically diverse?
This event will bring together leading international practitioners and researchers from the arts, from landscape architecture, and other academic disciplines, to explore issues of diversity, ethnicity and representation, to ask, is this just landscape?
Submission Guidelines
This interdisciplinary conference invites papers investigating issues of diversity, ethnicity and representation in the landscape from academics and practitioners, from a range of disciplines, including but not limited to:
landscape architecture / management ; photography; fine art; social science; geography; urban studies/design; leisure studies; anthropology; history; cultural studies
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- 250 word Abstracts describing in outline the research papers, works or projects that will be presented to the conference in October
Committees
Program Committee
- Dr Bridget Snaith
- Dr Aurore Julien
- Dr Anastasia Karandinou
Organizing committee
- Dr Bridget Snaith CMLI
- Landscape Institute Diversity & Inclusion Group
- Alan Chandler, Reader in Architecture, UEL
Invited Speakers
- Ingrid Pollard PhD, Photographer
- Vron Ware, Professor of Sociology & Gender Studies, Kingston University
- Walter Hood, Professor of Landscape Architecture UC Berkley, Principal, Hood Design Studio, Oakland CA
Venue
The conference will be held in University of East London, Stratford, London,
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to b.Snaith@uel.ac.uk