NEW LECTURE SERIES – LIFE TERRAINS

Aarhus School of Architecture and Center for Emerging Landscapes are proud to launch the new, continuous lecture series Life Terrains. Over the coming years, this interdisciplinary series will investigate landscapes as multi-faceted ecological, architectural, cultural-artistical, socio-political and existential phenomena, how they have been shaped, portrayed and theorized through history, as well as how they are currently transforming and need to be represented and rethought in our ‘New Climatic Regime’.

Bringing together leading scholars, architectural practitioners, artists and activists, the series seeks to provide students, academic-artistic communities and the public with a hybrid range of perspectives on how to grasp the changing character and complex notion of landscapes, by delving into historical key developments and contemporary theoretical and artistic perspectives on these topics.

By such ways of investigation, the lecture series aims at contributing to the collective reflections on how to understand contemporary landscapes and what it means to inhabit them. Earth is shaking and we are shaking with it, both our external and internal life terrains are metamorphosing, and it is the scientific- theoretical, political and aesthetic dimensions hereof the series seeks to provoke a better understanding of.

In addition to being filmed and livestreamed, these and the following talks will furthermore figurate as chapters in a forthcoming, scientific-artistic book anthology on landscapes and life terrains, collaboratively edited by Nikolaj Schultz, Katrine Wiberg, Stefan Boris Darlan, and Emanuele Coccia.