Dear all,
The University of Sheffield Faculty of Arts and Humanities and The Hepworth, Wakefield are hosting a knowledge exchange symposium on 25 and 26 April, part of a new partnership. It looks at the role of the arts and humanities in opening up cities, urban nature and its relationship to well-being and how creative and green spaces are important in post-industrial landscapes. It's free and features speakers from the University as well as those working in related fields, including horticulturalist and journalist Alys Fowler, writers Tristan Gooley and Helen Mort and photographer Daniel Meadows.
More details of each day are below, you can view the full line-up of the day is available to view on the project website at http://coconstructivehumanties.group.shef.ac.uk/modern-nature/
You can book your free place at the symposium at https://hepworthwakefield.org/whats-on/modern-nature-symposium/
We're expecting it to be popular and spaces are limited so if you'd like to join us, please book as soon as you can.
Hope to see you there
Amy
Thursday, 25th April: Seeing, Noticing, Writing
How can art, the arts and humanities open up new vistas on cities and modern nature? Research has shown that ‘nature connectedness’ within urban environments leads to clinical levels of improvement in well-being. Today we will be exploring different artists’ engagements with the beauty and aesthetic qualities of the natural world and how this nurtures an essential 'noticing' of nature by capturing it in words, art and photography. Speakers include natural navigator and award-winning author, Tristan Gooley, poet Helen Mort, photographers Simon Roberts, Peter Mitchell and Daniel Meadows, as well as environmentalist and writer, Zakiya McKenzie - the Forestry Commission's Writer in the Forest - and poets from the Longbarrow Press.
Friday, 26th April: Green Spaces & Gardens
How do gardens/green spaces contribute to well-being and making better city spaces? Why is a focus green space and gardens so important in the post-industrial built environment and how is this being put into practice? This day will include panels on creating green spaces and will include Social Scientists from the University of Sheffield and their research into approaches in Improving Well-being through Urban Nature (IWUN). Speakers include British horticulturalist, presenter and journalist, Alys Fowler, Clare Rishbeth (Department of Landscape), Jon Orlek (Studio Polpo), Keith Lilley (Director of Estates and Facilities Management, The University of Sheffield), Chris Keady (Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust), Anna Da Silva (RHS Bridgewater) as well as writers and poets from Route 57.
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