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.
