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Call for Ideas: Fieldwork Approaches - Reconnecting to our living territory

Published: 11 October 2023
CFI

The theme for SLU Landscape CFI 2023/2024 is a call for re-engagement in fieldwork in order to rethink our fieldwork approaches.

How to approach fieldwork in rapidly changing landscapes? How do we reconnect to our living territory through 1:1 encounters with the field? How to give voice to territories - people, places and more-than-humans - through our fieldwork approaches?

About the theme
The theme 2023/2024 is a call for re-engagement in fieldwork in order to rethink our fieldwork approaches. Ecological crisis and climate change are radically changing the landscapes in which we work. Also our emotional relations to nature are in crisis (solastalgia). Drawing inspiration from posthumanist perspectives, and Metropolitan trails - understood as trails offering manifold possibilities of experiencing landscape - we would like to inspire the next CFI projects to explore, debate and rethink fieldwork approaches within landscape architecture.

What form might these proposals take?
We encourage you to go out and do fieldwork and experiment with fieldwork approaches. Bring back your experiences in ways that enrich fieldwork practice at SLU and beyond. Your project can support ongoing work or start shaping something new.

For your project proposal to be eligible for CFI funding, your team must:

  • Include at least 3 people from at least 2 SLU Landscape units (SOL, LAPF, IMS, Movium, SLU Urban Futures). We welcome collaborators with fieldwork expertise from various disciplines at SLU or elsewhere.
  • Formulate an implementation plan.
  • Concretize activities that add value to SLU Landscape.

What is needed in your proposal? (Max. 2 pages)

ENGAGEMENT―list of the participants and their regular workplaces. Also their main activity, e.g. research / teaching, w/dept, campus location and affiliations. Identify a primary contact person.

IMPLEMENTATION―provide an activity plan on timeline until September 2024; outline action step/tasks and preliminary budget.

RESULT―list concrete outcomes for SLU Landscape and team members that come from realizing this idea. Also, identify immediate and long-term values.

Where do you send the proposal, and by when?
Email completed English proposals (2-page max) to: Marina.Queiroz@slu.se latest the 24th of November 2023.

Proposals are assessed on: team mix, feasibility of action plans, proposed effects and relevance to SLU Landscape’s mission to build on existing resources for the benefit of all SLU Landscape members.

Facts:

The aim of Call for Ideas
is to stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration, expand and maintain networks within the landscape field, update the current state of knowledge and identify future visions and trends. Up to SEK 200,000 will be distributed equally to support four project proposals’ operational costs.

Timeline
Submission due 24 November 2023
Announcement of winners 15 December 2023
Kick-off project meeting in January 2024
Project check-up in June 2024
Project report and final invoices due 15 September 2024
Project and outcomes presentation at SLU Landscape days in autumn 2024

The proposals are reviewed by SLU Landscape Steering Group:
Mats Gyllin (IMS, chair),
Ingrid Sarlöv-Herlin (LAPF),
Lars Johansson (Movium),
Bruno Santesson (SOL), Nina Vogel (Urban Futures Platform),
Karl Lövrie (LTV),
assisted by Anna Robling (WG member)

Questions?
Email questions to Marina.Queiroz@slu.se


Contact

Marina Queiroz, Lecturer at the Department of Urban and Rural Development, Ultuna

Telephone: +46 18 672511
E-mail: marina.queiroz@slu.se

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