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Artists in the Landscape<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Re\/walking \u2013 Re\/wilding \u2013 Re\/generating & Agri\/culture 2.0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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A<\/span>A<\/span>L<\/span>E<\/span>R<\/span>T<\/span> 4 DM \u2013 Workshop\/Writing retreat<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The AALERT 4DM (Arts and Artists in Landscape and Environment Research Today for Decision Making) project invites you to a workshop on 21-24 November 2021 at <\/strong>Kestle Barton, Helford, Cornwall<\/strong>. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The workshop aims<\/strong> to develop a clear overview of the benefits artists bring in landscape decisions in the context of private land. The discussions will be informed by the experiences of Kestle Barton<\/a> and Trelowarren Estate<\/a> on the Lizard. Through a series of presentations and walks led by Dr Bram Thomas Arnold, we will explore the advantages and challenges artists bring in transdisciplinary groups of scientists, landowners and other stakeholders working on projects blending cultural activities, art, hospitality, and the politics of food production in the vicinity of wilding and regenerative agriculture.<\/p>\n

The workshop will be combined with a writing retreat<\/strong> that will enable knowledge exchange, comparison and contrast between the Cornish case studies and similar artistic interventions explored in earlier workshops organised by the AALERT 4DM project.<\/p>\n

The workshop is by invitation only, and places are limited.<\/strong> However, accommodation, travel and subsistence expenses will be covered for a small number of participants who can travel to Cornwall. There will be the opportunity for a limited number of participants to join parts of the event <\/u>online.<\/p>\n

Please let us know by Monday 1st<\/sup> November <\/strong>whether you will be able to attend in person or online.<\/p>\n

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Kestle Barton<\/u><\/strong><\/span> is a cultural institution situated within a fifty-six-acre estate of productive agricultural land with long-standing plans to increase food production levels on its land by implementing experimental forms of agri\/cultural production. At Kestle Barton, the transition from a traditional farm to a cultural space has involved artists and artistic processes right from the start. As a result, Kestle Barton opens up its land resource for meaningful audience participation on a grand scale through artistic means.<\/p>\n

Trelowarren Estate<\/u><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0on the Lizard is a thousand-acre family estate dating back 700 years. The current owners aim to transform the management of the estate through wilding and regenerative agriculture. In 2018 the Environmental Sustainability Institute (ESI), University of Exeter, Penryn, worked with the estate to host a workshop on place-based transdisciplinary research, which led to a pilot programme of baseline surveys to gather evidence to support the estate\u2019s land management decision-making. Bram\u2019s role as an artist and researcher embedded in the process was to utilise his transdisciplinary art-practice to integrate the activities of the researchers with each other and with the key stakeholders on the estate.<\/p>\n

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The AALERT team will bring together artists with natural and social scientists, policymakers, and land managers at Kestle Barton to consider the following questions through walking, writing, and talking them into the landscape:<\/p>\n