Wednesday 6 June '12
(from The Grizedale Summit)
The Grizedale Summit
The Grizedale Summit was held on 29 May 2012 in the village of Coniston. It was organised by Grizedale Arts with Bernadette Lynch to open up some of the processes and thinking of the organisation to academics from university departments beyond the the confines of the visual arts and art theory.
The following blog is designed as a record of the summit, a point of discussion and a tool to analyse how Grizedale Arts might be relevant to the wider socio-cultural evolution.
The delegates who attended were:
Dr.Clive Parkinson, Director of Arts for Health
at Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr Gillian Whiteley, Loughborough University
School of Arts, Senior Lecturer Critical and Historical Studies
Dr. Sam Thompson , Senior Research Fellow in
health inequalities at the University of Liverpool and Senior
Lecturer in psychology at the University of East London.
Dr. Carissa Honeywell , Lecturer in Politics, Sheffield Hallam University
Professor Sarah Banks,
School of Applied
Social Sciences,
Durham University
Martin Hewitt, Head of History, Politics and
Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr Bram Vanhoutte , Centre for Census and Survey
Research at the University of Manchester to work on the Frailty,
Resilience and Inequality in Later Life (FRAILL) project, sponsored
by the Medical Research Council.
Dr. Derek Lynch , Canada Research Chair in
Organic Agriculture, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.
Dr Karen Dennis, University of Huddersfield.
Matthew Hyde, architectural historian and the
author of the new 'Pevsner' for Cumbria
Clare Cooper
, co-founder and co-director of the
Mission Models Money (MMM) programme.
Dr. Becky Sobell, Senior Lecturer in Landscape
Architecture, Manchester School of Architecture, Manchester
Metropolitan University
Professor Charlie Gere , Reader in New Media
Research, Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts
Our blogs
- The Grizedale Summit
- Grizedale Arts Blog
- Seven Samurai
- Lawson Park Blog
- Farmyard Radio
- The John Ruskin Memorial Blog
2012
website design & build by theusefularts.org.
1 Comment
Dear Alistair,
I have read with interest the ongoing debate around the role of institutions and natural landscape. As part of my research at the MA Research Architecture, Goldsmiths one of the critical conflicts around spatial practise is the proposal to give fundamental rights to nature involving a forensic analysis of power relations and of the production of image dispositifs. In respecting natural rights we make space through a new engagement towards an imminent aesthetic but first we have to separate out nature from culture. As both artist and engineer and having a close working relationship with the Lake District the Heideggarian 'enframing' may be the problem whereas following on from the recent TATE topography series developing a model that uses 'transformational' modes such as Mathematics coupled with duration and intuition I am confident a new model could be defined.
Alan Yates, August 8, 2012 18:45