Presenter(s): Shari Daya, Pippin Anderson & Olivia Thompson 

This project, funded by a UCT Teaching Innovation and Curriculum Change Grant in 2024, is developing a 'toolkit' in the form of an online and printed resource, aimed at scholars, artists and other creative practitioners and educators interested in exploring the theory and materialities of landscape through interdisciplinary readings and methods. It grows out of a fieldwork-based postgraduate course that the collaborators have co-taught for several years and a recent walking-workshop series, group art exhibition and symposium that we co-led. The project seeks to widen the curriculum beyond the confines of our home discipline of geography, and beyond the boundaries of the university. The project is not just aimed at an interdisciplinary audience; it is intended to serve artistic, scientific and educational communities beyond academia who are interested in creatively exploring landscapes. In this workshop, we will share the rationale for the project, lead a guided walk using the materials that we are developing for the toolkit, and facilitate a plenary discussion. The workshop will be interactive and mobile, moving between a meeting room space and the outdoor environment for hands-on experimentation as well as conversation.

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