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ement in the uk as toby noted during the discussions this will involve a variety of oral history dynamics including the more typical engagement with the life stories of older people by younger generations but also younger people recounting their more recent experiences to their elders both within the archival collection itself and through wider public engagement activities the project seeks to promote that intergenerational discussion climate change protest 2019 photo callum shaw unsplash the team also asked for input on key issues they are facing in the project s early stages particularly the challenge of choosing whilst creating an oral history archive of 100 testimonies is a huge endeavour how to select just 100 voices is far from easy above all the project aims to construct an innovative history of environmental activism over the last fifty years situating the experience of activism within its biographical contexts and investigating links between family region class ethnicity gender and generation in the formation and careers of environmental campaigners its scope also reaches across multiple environmental concerns including climate change and energy transport and mobility transitions wildlife and biodiversity landscape seascape green and blue spaces waste and recycling and pollution a key objective of the project is therefore to enable diverse and unsung voices to be heard in part this means not only focusing on the usual suspects or most famed but it also means engaging critically with what is traditionally included within and excluded from the environmental movement and exploring how that movement has been defined and might have been defined differently over the years in sum a polyvocal ethos is central to the work with an emphasis both on collecting diverse voices and the careful curation of their shared presence within the archive friends of the earth activists campaigning near the international whaling commission meeting brighton 1982 photo friends of the earth other issues discussed ranged from the methodological in particular with respect to the interviewing and archiving practices to the conceptual the question of the relations between the uk environmental movement and place at all scales from the sensing body to local sites cities regions nations transnational connections and planetary imaginations was one to which the team and the proposal was strongly attuned narrative life story interviews oli argued offer a means to weave those scales together and a site based element to some of the planned witness seminars which would focus on how people have worked on specific environmental issues was also being considered on the archival practice it was clear that the expertise of the team and national life stories will be invaluable in navigating the complicated ethics of consent and transparency involved in collecting personal testimonies for open and enduring access more broadly the project allowed us to return to discussions from earlier in the term s programme on archiving participatory politics and activism archival activism will be a core concern for the project as will the politics and ethics of national archive projects the project is designed both to engage with calls for a more democratic inclusive and diverse view of national history and through producing a nationally resourced collection offer a level of sustainable accessibility that it is hard for community based independent initiatives to achieve as well as the oral history and witness seminar collection housed by the national sound archive the project is looking to deliver an open access book representing that collection educational materials media coverage and commentaries and academic articles the surgery group looks forward to hearing more about the project s progress over the next three years and to its involvement of rhul graduate students in a number of its activities the project website with links to its own blog can be accessed here philip crang 8 december 2022 leave a comment centre for geohumanities landscape surgery writing deep continuing a strand of sessions formatted as creative workshops our most recent meeting focused on writing and inscription more generally as methodology for thought for probing depths the session was convened by the think deep project team eva barbarossa wayne chambliss harriet hawkins una helle william jamieson flora parrott with will and flora as the key facilitators courtesy of flora parrott courtesy of will jamieson in part the session was a chance for the wider group to hear about some of the forms of inscription being deployed within the practice based research of the think deep project will s fictional monologues flora s dumping space journals less a record more an operational manual for her sculptural practice eva s wall filling chalk boards developed over days then captured as photographs wayne s aphoristic and diagrammatic journaling mixing over materials into new forms una s drawing and doodling associative rather than transcriptive this post features illustrations of those practices courtesy eva barbarossa courtesy una helle however the session was primarily based around a practical exercise a guided inscription of a research related object each of us had been asked to bring along the various objects included field drawings a piece of tarmac a collection of postcards based on rgs maps arabic poetry books sand put in a bottle in singapore quite possibly from cambodia a shamanic ritual bowl leaves from london city trees an ethically problematic sign designed to direct tourists to a native american burial site a flyer protesting 5g masts a wood carving knife together we inscribed different engagements with these objects through words through marks lines and drawings through sentences through narratives through patterns through material forms fashioned from the paper on which we wrote courtesy wayne chambliss these inscriptions asked us to attend in depth to our subject matters to look and touch to see anew to frame reframe associate the workshop thus centred on writing beyond its roles in communication and transcription but as an attentive imaginative and speculative practice philip crang 17 november 2022 leave a comment historical geography landscape surgery red coats and wild birds on november 15th landscape surgery was delighted to welcome kirsten greer canada research chair in global environmental histories and geographies at nipissing university ontario to discuss her monograph red coats and wild birds how military ornithologists and migrant birds shaped empire the university of north carolina press chapel hill 2020 chaired by innes keighren the session adopted an author meets surgeons format with general discussion energised by kirsten talking through her intellectual trajectories prior and subsequent to the book and responsive readings from caroline cornish honorary research associate and humanities research coordinator royal botanic gardens kew and phd students christina hourigan and michelle payne red coats and wild birds front cover cover illustration cornelius krieghoff an officer s room in montreal oil on canvas 1846 used with permission of the royal ontario museum red coats and wild birds reflects on the ornithological practices of british army officers in the nineteenth century outlining their wider importance to cultures of nature the accumulation of geographic knowledge and empire building more specifically it focuses on the british mediterranean as an imperial space of connection where the mobile lives of military men and migratory birds intersected the four substantive chapters of the book focus on specific life geographies avian vignettes and places thomas wright blakiston the great bustard and the crimea andrew leith adams the hoopoe and malta leonard howard lloyd irby the golden oriole and gibraltar and philip savile grey reid the osprey and the english army home base of aldershot hampshire the book s introduction and afterword foreground questions of colonial afterlives and amnesias through reflections on twenty first century conflicts over the hunting and conserving of migratory birds in the post colonial context of malta author meets surgeons from left to right caroline cornish michelle payne kirsten greer christina hourigan and innes keighren photo and arrangement of abandoned diary notebook book pen and woollen hat courtesy of philip crang the discussion reflected the thoughtful suggestive texture of the book the combining of human and bird life geographies was one main area of reflection for example michelle noted how the visual presence of bird portraits and human migratory diagrammatic tracings inverted expected representational tropes shaped by our group s and the panel s investments in the plant humanities another talking point as raised by christina was how ornithological knowledge and collection might differ from the botanical caroline opened up discussion of the masculinities that kirsten argues were performed through this nineteenth century ornithology the british military scientific hero temperate martial masculinity and muscular adventurism included we debated how the migratory geographies of birds both chimed and chafed with imperial national and local framings and the role of critical historical geography in countering colonial amnesia was a particularly strong conversational thread enhanced by kirsten s comments on her on going assistance to first nation communities in northern ontario as a phd researcher initiating this project kirsten had spent six months as a visiting surgeon at rhul under the supervision of david lambert so it was a particular pleasure to welcome her back to reflect on the fascinating book that work became and the wider commitment to critical historical geography she has developed fortuitously and mirroring the session s theme of connective mobilities the session s participants included joan schwarz kirsten s erstwhile phd co supervisor at queens with us as leverhulme visiting professor in 2022 23 philip crang 7 november 2022 leave a comment centre for geohumanities landscape surgery drawing out viral ecologies landscape surgery was delighted to host a creative workshop led by dr sage brice british academy postdoctoral fellow department of geography university of durham focusing on past and on going experiences of the covid 19 pandemic we explored her participatory drawing method for engaging with vulnerabilities and their potentials sage convened a two part session both involving us in a version of the creative research process she has developed to explore pandemic experiences and staging critical discussion about that methodology the novel coronavirus who practically working in smaller groups of five or six we focused on cartooning the early stages of the pandemic for example through lockdowns with a brief to do this from the virus point of view particularly notable was the care that sage exercised in bringing us into the process and the clear emphasis not on representational skill but on a generative contemplation enacted through acts of drawing iconic virus images round fluffy spikes tufts see above bodies bubbles doors windows outside environments emotional sensings fear loneliness calm love care disabling physical states and more were sketched out with widely varying graphic skills i shouldn t speak for the whole group but personally i failed i think in the viral point of view my hand more mobilised by remembrance of personal experience and with viral relationality largely reduced to projections from my own imagination a variously angry pleading or mocking virus observing my precautionary behaviours particularly powerful imagery and testimony came from others drawing the problematic relations of infection the virus not separate from us but part of new embodiments in parallel our picturings of lockdown behaviours evoked the sense of changed subjectivities in relation to covid 19 drawing courtesy of sage brice more broadly we discussed the development of sage s creative research practice both in relation to conceptual fields such as queer ecologies and her biography of work on transindividual relationalities discussion picked up on the traditions of drawing research in geography and their renewed role within the geohumanities today including amongst surgeons present and past helen scalway s long standing contributions deserving of particular mention there was also a thread of discussion about the role of technical skill in drawing research even when participatory in ethos does limited drawing skill inhibit or prevent evocation despite the open safe environment produced by a skilled convenor issues around creative research methods will return at various points in our programme so particularly warm thanks to sage for her generosity and care in visiting us and running such a rich workshop her departmental profile is here and her twitter handle is sage_brice philip crang 7 november 2022 leave a comment centre for geohumanities landscape surgery citizen sensing of air and atmosphere after introductions from returning and newly joined surgeons our first landscape surgery meeting of the term focused on sasha engelmann s new ahrc funded fellowship on advancing feminist and creative methods for sensing air and atmosphere running from september 2022 until september 2024 sasha s fellowship is focused on developing citizen led sensing of both air quality and weather it draws on and aims to contribute to wider work on citizen sensing by scholars including nerea calvillo jennifer gabrys and max liboiron one key topic for discussion was how feminist thinking emphasises the relationality of environmental data and promotes an environmental sensing committed to care as well as precision we also reflected on how creative methods can advance these agendas in particular when they foreground the sociality of environmental knowledge making open weather 2020 decoding weather satellite transmission during a diy satellite ground station workshop led by sasha engelmann and sophie dyer at the wagenhallen kunstverein cultural centre in stuttgart germany photo courtesy of sasha engelmann the fellowship focuses especially on two projects first open weather where sasha is working with sophie dyer and other collaborators on developing citizen led weather monitoring networks that form an international open weather community decoding weather satellite transmissions to image and imagine earth s weather systems second a project on air quality in villa inflamable the flammable town situated next to the largest petro chemical facility in argentina here sasha will be working with residents of the town buenos aires based anthropologist dr débora swistun the artistic aerocene community and others to develop forms of air quality sensing that are locally embedded and attuned to residents lived experiences aerocene sculpture launch in villa inflamable argentina 2018 photo cour...