CONGRESS DATES CHANGE!

November 24-26, 2026!

 

Congress “Uncertain Landscapes 2: Beyond the resources”

OPEN CALL

 

The application for submitting proposals to the conference “Uncertain Lanscapes 2: Beyond de Resources” is now available.

Each author may submit up to 2 proposals.

 

Each authormust select, for each one, one of the 6 conference themes:
1. BEYOND HERITAGE: INVISIBILITY OF MEMORIES AND VISIBILITY OF THE PROCESS;
2. BEYOND PARADIGMS: COMPLEXITY, EPISTEMOLOGICAL RUPTURES AND THE UNTOLD HISTORY;
3. BEYOND (AB)USE: LANDSCAPES OF CARE;
4. BEYOND THE URBAN: OLD GEOGRAPHIES WITH NEW FORMS OF CONSTRUCTION;
5. BEYOND THE SURFACE: REGENERATIVE PRACTICES;
6. BEYOND PROGRESS: EMBRACING COOPERATION, SLOWNESS AND INDETERMINACY.

The platform is open until June 14: HERE

 

On the conference website, you can find the submission forms for the 3 types of proposals:
Option A – communications or posters;
Option B1 – papers;
Option B2 – projects.

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS FOR THE EVENT 

Tim Waterman

Tim Waterman is Professor of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, specializing in the relationship between landscape, democracy, culture, and public life.

He is the author of “The Landscape of Utopia” and editor of several important publications, including “Landscape Citizenships,” “Landscape and Agency,” and the “Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food.”

He is developing a four-book series entitled “Reworlding,” focused on visual culture and imagination, while continuing to publish in leading architecture and landscape architecture magazines.

 

Space Transcribers

Space Transcribers, an interdisciplinary research-by-design practice, co-founded and co-directed by Fernando P. Ferreira and Daniel Duarte Pereira.
In 2023, Space Transcribers participated in the Portuguese representation at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia with the project Fertile Futures.
Immersive, collaborative and site-specific, Space Transcribers employ installations, workshops, curatorial projects, performances, publications and writing as critical spatial practices through which to offer new socio-political and ecological perspectives on urban and rural contexts, both in Portugal and internationally.

 

Marcelo Rosenbaum

Marcelo Rosenbaum received the prestigious 2018 RIBA International Prize for the Canuanã Children’s Homes, a project considered the best building in the world that year.
His work combines architecture, design and sustainability to promote social justice, empower local communities and preserve the forest and indigenous territories.
He has carried out long-term projects with the Kayapó, Yawanawá and Tremembé peoples, the quilombola communities of Jalapão and the Indigenous Council of Roraima, highlighting the social impact of his work.

 

Idoia Cuesta

Idoia Cuesta is a textile artist whose work focuses on basketry techniques, combining craftsmanship, organic materials, and contemporary textile practices.
Part of her workshop is dedicated to cultivating and researching different willow varieties, while collaborating with the Galician Association for Land Stewardship on projects related to willow planting, training, and knowledge dissemination.
Her background in biology reinforces her commitment to native vegetation and ecological practices. She is also the author of Guía de las plantas cesteables de Galicia, a key reference work on basketry plants and traditional weaving practices in Galicia.

 

João Nunes

João Nunes founded PROAP, a practice centred on understanding landscape processes and integrating design into the transformation of the world.
His philosophy views landscape architecture as a way of interpreting natural and cultural mechanisms, with projects acting as part of broader environmental and territorial processes.

 

Bit Lab Cultural

Bit Lab Cultural is a workers’ cooperative founded in Barcelona in 2017, bringing together professionals from the cultural, audiovisual, and experimental digital media sectors.
The cooperative develops research-driven projects that promote accessible digital tools, ethical online cultural practices, and participatory creative processes rooted in collaboration and community engagement.
At the congress, Bit Lab will be represented by Víctor Jiménez, a cultural activist and researcher in collaborative digital culture, and Martí Sales, a writer and musician recognised for his experimental and genre-crossing literary work.

 

Jamie Vanucchi

Her work explores landscapes shaped by powerful constructive and destructive processes, developing design approaches that evolve over time and intentionally engage with environmental transformation.
She is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Cornell University’s Department of Landscape Architecture, with research supported by institutions such as The Nature Conservancy, the Landscape Architecture Foundation, and Cornell’s Atkinson Center for Sustainability.
Jamie Vanucchi has received several prestigious awards, including the Graham Foundation Individual Project Award and the CELA Award for Excellence in Design Studio Teaching, recognising both her research and pedagogical contributions to landscape architecture.

 

Lauro Olmo-Enciso

Lauro Olmo-Enciso is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Alcalá, specialising in Landscape Archaeology, Medieval Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, and Heritage studies.
His work challenges Eurocentric and essentialist interpretations of the past, proposing alternative narratives that foreground diversity, otherness, silenced histories, and the perspectives often excluded from academic and political discourse.
Lauro was a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University and is currently affiliated with the Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past. He has also been Visiting Professor and researcher in several countries across Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East.

 

If you have any questions, please contact us by email at: uncertainlandscapes@lab2pt.uminho.pt

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