Conference for researchers and practitioners: Co-creating Landscape Change in the Green Transition

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The conference ‘Co-creating Landscape Change in the Green Transition’ invites researchers and practitioners working with landscape change, collaborative processes and rural transformation to Copenhagen 24-25 February 2025.

Global ecological crises demand new ways of living in and managing landscapes. This opens new opportunities for future land-use, but changes may also spark contestations – at local, national and broader regional level. These contestations call for renewed debates on rural transformation to address socio-ecological problems through inclusive and collaborative processes.

The conference ‘Co-creating Landscape Change in the Green Transition’ invites researchers and practitioners working with landscape change, collaborative processes and rural transformation to Copenhagen 24-25 February 2025. Bearing the subtitle ‘Storytelling, multispecies contestations and collaborative governance’, the conference aims to analyse contemporary rural dynamics and explore collaborative and imaginative approaches for paving ways forward for landscape making.

Within the overall theme of collaborative landscape co-creation, the conference explores the following sub-topics:

  1. Storytelling landscape change
  2. Rural contestations and multispecies conflicts
  3. Collaboration, democracy and multi-level governance

At the conference we are blessed with two formidable keynote speakers:

  • Caterina Scaramelli, Senior lecturer, Boston University, author of How to Make a Wetland (2021) about moral ecologies and contestations over landscape change
  • Judith Westerink, Senior Scientist, Wageningen University and Research – (WUR), has written about how to engage farmers in biodiversity projects and motivate for collaboration on landscape projects.

More names will be announced soon.

Prelimenary programme 

Day 1

12.00              Lunch

13.00 –           Programme: Welcome speeches, keynote speaker, parallel
17.30              workshop sessions

18.30              Conference dinner

Day 2

08.00 –           Programme: Keynote speaker, parallel workshop sessions, 
12.30              roundtable debate

12.30              Lunch

The conference will be held in English.

Register here: eventsignup.ku.dk/clc2025

Registration fee: The standard fee for participation is 625 DKK (incl. VAT) and includes dinner and lunches.

Reduced fee: If you are not affiliated with any organisation, or in other ways not able to cover the full participation fee, we have a limited amount of reduced fee seats (100 DKK, incl. VAT). Please contact us on clc2025@samf.ku.dk if you wish to make use of this option.

If your are publicly employed in Denmark you can pay by EAN.

Accommodation: Participants are to organise their own accommodation. CPH Hotel is located adjacent to the venue and is on the Danish public procurement agreement (SKI-aftalen).

The conference is organized by the interdisciplinary and collaborative research project Storytelling Landscape Change, where landscape planners and anthropologists from University of Copenhagen collaborate with Danish public sector nature and landscape managers to explore new ways of co-creating the landscape.

 

Inquiries: clc2025@samf.ku.dk