People's Landscapes: Living in Landscapes

A roundtable discussion explore landscape as a space for living,
considering the pressures on land from population growth and
discussing questions of preservation vs. development. People's
Landscapes: Beyond the Green and Pleasant Land is a lecture series
convened by the University of Oxford's National Trust Partnership,
which brings together experts and commentators from a range of
institutions, professions and academic disciplines to explore
people's engagement with and impact upon land and landscape in the
past, present and future. The National Trust cares for 248,000
hectares of open space across England, Wales and Northern Ireland;
landscapes which hold the voices and heritage of millions of people
and track the dramatic social changes that occurred across our
nations' past. In the year when Manchester remembers the 200th
anniversary of the Peterloo massacre, the National Trust's 2019
People’s Landscapes programme is drawing out the stories of the
places where people joined to challenge the social order and where
they demonstrated the power of a group of people standing together
in a shared place. Throughout this year the National Trust is
asking people to look again, to see beyond the green and pleasant
land, and to find the radical histories that lie, often hidden,
beneath their feet. At the third event in the series, Living in
Landscapes, panellists explore landscape as a space for living,
considering the pressures on land from population growth,
discussing questions of preservation vs. development, and asking:
who should decide how we live in landscape? Speakers: Alice Purkiss
| National Trust Partnership Lead | University of Oxford (Welcome)
Lucy Footer| National Public Programme Producer| National Trust
(Introduction) Dr Ingrid Samuel| Historic Environment Director |
National Trust (Chair) Crispin Truman | Chief Executive | Campaign
to Protect Rural England Dave Lomax | Senior Associate | Waugh
Thistleton Architects Professor Caitlin Desilvey | Associate
Professor of Cultural Geography | University of Exeter Dr David
Howard | Associate Professor in Sustainable Urban Development |
University of Oxford For more information about the People’s
Landscapes Lecture Series and the National Trust Partnership at the
University of Oxford please visit:
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/national-trust-partnership