2024 PLaCE International Symposium

Co-winner of the Distinctive Investigations of Place Alternative Poster Session

8 March 2024

My research explores conservation volunteering in the Cairngorms National Park as an embodied practice creating deep relationships to place. Conservation volunteering often involves tasks that are harsh on the landscape, like killing trees through ring barking or removal, in order to restore ecosystems. How can we begin to understand and situate the land as an equal research participant. This early fieldwork of my research invokes Polaroid photography, walking, and sitting in the areas within the Cairngorms National Park that have recently been involved in conservation activities. I aim to capture the “voice” of the landscape and gain more awareness of this research participant before carrying out fieldwork with conservation volunteers later this year. This early fieldwork Polaroid photography, which involved long periods of sitting with the landscape for development, established an embodied model to continue throughout my research.

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https://www.placeinternational.co.uk/post/alternative-research-posters-exhibition