Purpose
The Landscape Special Interest Group has been formed to highlight the importance of establishing a robust and suitably broad record, characterisation and understanding of the historic and contemporary landscape. It will consider how this understanding should inform the assessment of effects of change and development and influence policy making, planning and design.
Greater knowledge, effective collaboration and understanding of the historic environment will unlock the creative potential of environmental professionals to respond more effectively to the distinctiveness and character of a place, to see the opportunities for change as well as the sensitivities to it and inform decisions and designs that will drive sustainable development and better reveal cultural heritage.
The Landscape SIG will foster links with environmental professionals whose work requires them to engage with and understand the historic environment, including archaeologists, landscape architects, ecologists, architects, urban designers, planners and those who manage or advise on the management of the natural environment.
Aims and Objectives
Aims
- engage in the process of change at all scales, from individual sites and assets to the landscape scale
- collaborate with other environmental professions and land managers to deliver holistic benefits through landscape
- understand cross-cutting terminology and issues from both natural and historic environment sectors
Objectives
- to act as a focus for CIfA members and external interested parties with an interest in landscape
- to support best practice through the development of archaeological and landscape guidance in a range of land use contexts
- to establish a forum for sharing of experience and knowledge on landscape
- to provide a place for archaeologists to develop skills and engage with other environmental professions to emphasise the historic nature of landscape and the social and environmental value a landscape perspective can bring to multidisciplinary projects
- to provide training, both within and outside the heritage profession, on delivering advice on and benefits to the historic landscape
Landscape SIG tea break lecture series
The Landscape SIG are running a series of online tea break lectures to explore the fascinating world of landscape archaeology.
The next session is being held online on Wednesday 15 January 2025 from 12:05 until 12:55, and will feature a lecture on ‘Make un-dateable features a thing of the past! OSL Profiling and Dating (OSL-PD) for landscape archaeology’ by our chair, Professor Sam Turner. To book your place and see full details about January's online tea break lecture go to the booking page. These sessions count as 45 minutes of CPD if it meets objectives on your personal development plan.
Landscape SIG tea break lecture series recordings
Landscape SIG tea break lecture - 13 November 2024
Join the Group
Membership is free to CIfA members through the Members area login. Those who are not members of the institute will need to pay an annual £10 fee and can join here.
The Landscape SIG can now be found on X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook.Via these social media accounts we hope to keep you informed of any Landscape SIG events, but also of any research, policies, trainings, and conferences that relates to the aims of the Landscape SIG. Do give us a follow via
- X (@cifa_landscape)
- Instagram (@cifa_landscape)
- Facebook (Landscape SIG)
Committee members
Sam Turner (Hon. Chair)
Meike Van Lit (Hon. Treasurer)
Brandon Braun (Hon. Secretary)
David Astbury
Victoria Bowns
Ian Houlston
Kat Hopwood Lewis
Abi Tompkins
Janine Young
Three year plan
To be agreed
AGM minutes
Forming AGM minutes 8 May 2024
