Landscape Learn at the Garden Museum: Taxonomy of Language

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

27th February 2018

Johanna Gibbons, Partner J & L Gibbons – This is code for…

Dominic Lippa, Director Pentagram – Systems of communication 

Dr Tereza Stehlikova, Royal College of Art Artist film maker – Trieste 1 

Stephen J Fowler, Poet, Artist and Playwright, Poet in Residence J & L Gibbons 

Neil Davidson – Language and Landscape, Alexander Pope at Marble Hill 

Other talks in the series:

Right of Way – 13th February

Critical Infrastructure – 20th February