Landscape Learn at the Garden Museum: Critical Infrastructure

Mid-winter, we will hold three Tuesday evening events to focus on Right of Way, Critical Infrastructure and The Taxonomy of Language. A right of way is fundamental to how we appreciate, stretch out and journey across the landscape on ancient routes and bye-ways, following well-trodden paths and desire lines. Critical infrastructure is that which is deemed critical to the survival of civilisation; democracy and topsoil. Rapidly we need to relearn what was natural to our ancestors, better appreciate the web of life, how everything hangs together in the ‘balanced nature of nature’. Language is our complex system of communication, implied and explicit. We categorise, encode, and abbreviate in direct and ambiguous styles in a spectrum of mini language forms that can inspire, inform, or exclude. Language is human expression and the foundation of the learning process.

Speakers

20th February 2018

Johanna Gibbons, Partner J & L Gibbons – Survival

Dr Anna Krzwoszynska, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow University of Sheffield – Soils and Society 

Film Dr Tereza Stehlikova, Royal College of Art Artist film maker – Nameless Woodland or Red Riding Hood 

Jonathan Spencer, Head of Environment & Planning Forestry Enterprise England – Woodland biodiversity 

Neil Davidson, Partner J & L Gibbons – Natural Networks 

Other talks in the series:

Right of Way – 13th February

Taxonomy of Language – 27th February