Journal Publication.
A paper that was born out of a presentation at the Royal Society of Arts in 2022 has just gone live on Landscape Research Journal. The article is open access and downloadable as a PDF which I recommend as it’s a photo essay that the internet version of the paper struggles to present in its full glory.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2025.2516011
Abstract:
This paper will span a timeline from the online meeting Art, Ecology, Emergency: Sustaining Practice, coordinated by the Eden Project, that took place under lockdown in 2020, through to the summer of 2021 and an event in a series of fields on the Lizard in Cornwall. This paper will draw on the methodological development of Bibliotherapy for the Anthropocene, which is a performance in the guise of a reading group, a cross between a Quaker meeting and a reconvening of the Dead Poets Society, and subsequently a collaboration with the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Throughout this paper, the author will evidence how arts practices that are cyclical and performative can embed creativity and democracy into conversations taking place in and around landscape decision-making.
