Landscape Storytelling:

seminar, book launch & film screenings

London, 33 Finsbury Square
Monday Jan 13th 2020
15.30 - 22.15

Landscapes are rich emergent envelopes of material and immaterial qualities that require capturing for further thickening. Filmic and photographic approaches embed strong sensorial experience and narration for portraying these entanglements, influencing not only the way landscapes are shaped but also how humans and living organisms are shaped by their engagement with both landscapes and film as mediums of experience and emergence.

Landscape Storytelling aims to explore, test and discuss such exchanges between site, [audio] visual research methods, humans and living organisms. We ask: how can visual and audio-visual records of global landscapes that embody storytelling bring together productive exchanges and artistry between the qualitative readings of our forests, gardens, rivers, oceans, towns, cities, factories and businesses with quantitative environmental research data?

The event welcomes landscape architects, architects, filmmakers, photographers, archaeologists, biological fiction writers, environmental scientists, climate change activists and all interested in our ecological present, past and futures.

The event includes the book launch of Architecture Filmaking (edited by Igea Troiani and Hugh Campell) which investigates the ways in which architectural researchers, teachers of architecture, their students and practicing architects, filmmakers and artists are using filmmaking uniquely in their practice. Copies can be bought for a special price at the event.

Digital Studio Symposium 2017

The Digital Studio Symposium at the Martin Centre 50th Anniversary Conference As part of the Martin Centre 50th Anniversary Conference in December 2017, former and current members of the Digital Studio research group from around the world gathered to present their latest research and the trajectories they have taken in their careers. Led by the Digital Studio founders François Penz and Maureen Thomas, the event highlighted the diversity of topics explored by the research group over the years.

Cinematic Urban Geographies Conference 2013

AHRC funded reseach aimed to explore the different facets by which cinema and the moving image contribute to our understanding of cities and their topographies. This event will be the final act of an AHRC research project entitled Cinematic Geographies of Battersea.

The Museum as Interface Symposium 2013

The Museum as Interface is an AHRC Cultural Engagement Fund research project conducted by the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art of Cambridge University and Kettle’s Yard. Following in the footsteps of previous investigations into digital technologies in museum contexts at the university.

Cinematic Geographies of Battersea 2012-13

Cinematic Geographies of Battersea: Urban Interface and Site-Specific Spatial Knowledge is an AHRC-funded research project being conducted by the Universities of Cambridge and Liverpool in partnership with English Heritage (EH). This projects aims to complement work on the parish of Battersea, by studying how this area has been portrayed in films over the 20th century.

Cinematic Mapping of Cambridge

Cinematic Mapping of Cambridge contains the video archive of the Digital Studio (DIGIS) for Research in Design, Visualisation and Communication, Martin Centre, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge. It contains both research and practice-based movies about the city and the University of Cambridge.