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Re-scaling the Rural<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n

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Conference in Thy\/Aarhus 20 – 23 May 2022<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><\/div><\/main><\/div><\/div>

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Keith Halfacree<\/strong> is Reader in Human Geography in the Department of Geography at Swansea University in the UK.\u00a0 He has a Geography BSc from Bristol University (1987) and a PhD from Lancaster University (1992).\u00a0 His research focuses on four overlapping areas, all with a clear \u2018rural\u2019 dimension.\u00a0 First, Keith investigates discourses of rurality, mostly in the global North, outlining the content of our representations of rural and exploring how these link to practices such as migration, developing a sense of place, and leisure.\u00a0 Second, he engages with conceptual debates on rural change, the shaping of rural futures and the place of \u2018rurality\u2019 within the 21st Century more broadly.\u00a0 Third, Keith studies mostly \u2018internal\u2019 expressions of human migration and has published widely on urban-to-rural counterurbanisation, cultural perspectives on such migration, and also on how migration helps to structure institutions such as family and place.\u00a0 Fourth, and reflecting his personal interests, he teaches and researches \u2018marginal geographies\u2019, geographical expressions of all things \u2018counter-cultural\u2019, not least as expressed through music and alternative lifestyles.\u00a0 Finally, outside of work, Keith enjoys rural and urban walking, folk, indie and Americana music, many dishes involving chilli peppers, art, and fine ales and other drinks!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>


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Karin Dubsky<\/strong> is founder and coordinator of the environmental NGO Coastwatch. Ecologist by background, she is a citizen science expert focussing on understanding coastal and marine biodiversity. She seeks to support and develop informed public participation in planning, environmental protection, habitat restoration and management and has championed marine and coastal nature as well as traditional knowledge and heritage for most of her life.\u00a0\u00a0She has worked as consultant, expert advisor, lecturer and trainer with UNESCO, WHO and in Ireland and abroad \u2013 including Italy, Kosovo, Black Sea states and the Czech Republic. \u00a0Karin is currently working on seagrass, adaptation to climate change, restoring blue carbon and coastal stream watershed restoration with farmers, resident communities and visitors.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>


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Dr Sigrid Holmwood<\/strong> is an artist whose work deals with the relationship between art and the figure of the peasant. She is interested in how the figure of the peasant has been used to construct modernity, but also in artistic practices that have come out of peasant communities. Consequently, researching plant dyes and making pigments out of plants is central to her practice. She follows the histories of these plants, unearthing their relationships with folklore, colonialism, and modernity.<\/p>\n

Dr Holmwood has a PhD in art from Goldsmiths College, University of London. She now lives and works in Malm\u00f6, Sweden. Recent exhibitions include The Commons: Reenchanting the World, at the Museum of English Rural Life, Reading, UK, and Swedish Acquisitions: insights at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and Cannibal and Witch Eat the Rich, at Celsius Projects, Malm\u00f6.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>


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Louise Kelleher<\/strong> is Communications Officer for ARC2020.\u00a0The ARC2020 network<\/a> brings together agricultural and rural actors working for Good Food, Good farming and Better Rural Policies in the EU.\u00a0She is also a freelance translator, editor, writer and storyteller.<\/p>\n

Louise believes the world would be a better place if we all knew where our food comes from. She is excited about how we can get there: by re-establishing connections with food and nature, decolonizing food systems, and learning to live in sufficiency and community. As part of the comms team at ARC, her favourite bit of the job is sharing the wisdoms of farmers who have a deep respect for the land and for all Earth\u2019s creatures. An Irish emigrant in rural Bohemia, Louise\u2019s background is in translation and intercultural communication, which is why she is delighted to be part of \u201cNos Campagnes en R\u00e9silience\u201d \u2013 ARC\u2019s new project to build rural resilience in France. There are so many fascinating experiments in socially conscious farming and rural community happening on the ground in France, and Louise is delighted to tell the rest of Europe about it.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>


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Pieter Versteegh, PhD (ETH Lausanne)<\/strong> in Architecture and Sciences of the City, is a researcher and professor of architectural theory and project. His research and publications are interdisciplinary explorations related to post-urban dwelling and the co-construction of identity, focusing on rurality and the spaces of psychiatry, mirrors\/psyches of globalised urban western society. He is co-founder of ARENA (Architectural Research European Network Association) and initiator of its AlterRurality network, as well as co-founder of the Psych\u00e9 research association in Switzerland. He currently teaches free-lance at the Western Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (HES-SO). He is former professor at the Ecole Sp\u00e9ciale d\u2019Architecture in Paris; former professor, head at the college of architecture and founding co-director at the Jointmaster of the HES-SO Fribourg. He has been visiting professor at ETH Lausanne, the Berlage institute and the University of Kentucky. He has practiced and still occasionally practices as an independent architect in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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