This is the first event of our series ‘Shall my valley be green again?’ Encounters with the post-industrial landscape.
Our speakers will present a range of disciplinary approaches from which to engage productively with the legacies of industrial and other large-scale landscape transformations, and their entanglement with social and political shifts.
Research on industrial legacies has been a productive avenue for architectural historians, providing an opportunity to engage actively with the study and recovery of altered landscapes.
In this event, speakers will present different conceptual and methodological ways to approach the post-industrial landscape, from infrastructural research to social history and memory and the potential of archives.
Getting under the Surface of Mining Landscape
Hilary Orange, archaeologist, Senior Lecturer in Industrial Heritage, Swansea University
Railways and History of Architecture: Research tracks to and from Transylvanian stations
Cristina Purcar, Reader in Art History and History of Architecture, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Landscape Archives and the Landscape of State Financed Industry
Helen Neve, landscape architect, Friends of the Landscape Archives at Reading (FOLAR)
Chaired by:
Richard Cass, independent consultant in environmentally-based planning and design, Design Council expert.
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