Welcome to the Nordic Landscape Research Network
The network, and the web site, is in progress! After almost five years of network activities Kenneth Olwig and Tomas Germundsson have handed over the leadership of the network to Mattias Qviström, and a partly new and younger group of coordinators are about to take over. New activities and a new plan for the future of the network will be developed during the next months – please check the web site for more information in the near future!
The Nordic Landscape Research Network (NLRN) provides a forum integrating the inspiration from newer Nordic landscape research initiatives with more established landscape environments, while simultaneously linking Norden to the international landscape research community, especially through its affiliation with the U.K. based Landscape Research Group. The network wants to mobilize the recent theoretical developments that have led to a renewed and revised interdisciplinary interest in landscape on the part of more culturally oriented disciplines such as human geography, ethnology/anthropology, archaeology, landscape architecture, history, art and literary criticism.
The network aims to provide means of maintaining interdisciplinary and inter-institute continuity in research and education. Of immediate interest for network activities could, for example, be the European Landscape Convention in the Nordic countries. It is crucial for the development of Nordic landscape research to extend the possibilities for exchange and cooperation, especially among young researchers. The purpose of this network will thus both be to foster international interdisciplinary cooperation in the framing of research projects, and to develop Nordic programs for the education of university students and field practitioners.
In 2005 – 2009, the network was funded by NordForsk. Some activities funded by NordForsk will be held in 2010 as well (see News & coming events). At the moment, we are searching for new funding possibilities in order to facilitate a wide range of networking activities within Nordic landscape research in the future as well.
Landscape research is inter- and trans-disciplinary; anyone with an interest in the field is welcome to join our network. Participants will be kept informed about activities within landscape research (conferences, courses for doctoral students, etc.) by being put on our e-mail mailing lists. The list is also open for discussions on landscape research. In order to join the network, use the link “e-mail list”.