Making Sense of Here: revealing multiple narratives of place through artistic process and integrating art and artists into transdisciplinary research

Fraser, Harriet ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2490-3496 and Fraser, Rob ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6924-851X (2024) Making Sense of Here: revealing multiple narratives of place through artistic process and integrating art and artists into transdisciplinary research. Landscape Research .

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Abstract

The celebrated English Lake District, a national park and World Heritage Site, embraces complexity and tension. In landscape decision-making, farmers, landowners, policy makers, ecologists, residents, tourists and businesses have vested interests, as do the land and other-than-humans; yet the challenge remains in considering voices equitably and integrating complex environmental data. The art project Sense of Here (Citation2018–2020), incorporating learning from local experts, scientists and land managers, and using walking, poetry, photography, film and installations, aimed to portray and connect multiple perspectives. Learning from Sense of Here was instrumental in the establishment of the multi-artist PLACE Collective within the UK Centre for National Parks and Protected Areas; and contributed to the Windermere Accord, formed through the Ensemble Fellowship to improve pathways to better understand, mitigate and adapt to environmental change. This paper shares insights from Sense of Here and considers the role of art in shifting patterns of dialogue across different silos.

Item Type:	Article
Journal / Publication Title:	Landscape Research
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
ISSN:	1469-9710
Departments:	Institute of Science and Environment > Forestry and Conservation Centre for National Parks and Protected Areas (CNPPA)
Additional Information:	Harriet Fraser and Rob Fraser, both Visiting Research Fellows, Centre for National Parks and Protected Areas, University of Cumbria, UK. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Depositing User:	Anna Lupton
Date Deposited:	10 Feb 2024 19:56
Last Modified:	10 Feb 2024 20:00
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/7550

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