Presentations at Energy Landscapes Conference in Dresden/Germany
This years European Conference of the Landscape Research Group entitled ‘Energy Landscapes: Perception, Planning, Participation and Power’ will be held from 16 to 18 September in Dresden, Germany. All three contributions from the NRGlab have been accepted for presentation (listed below) and several members of the lab will visit the conference to join the lively discourse on emerging energy landscapes.
Carbon heroes: Exploring higher-density energy landscapes
Sven Stremke; Wageningen University; Landscape Architecture; Wageningen; Netherlands
Dirk Oudes; Wing; Wageningen; Netherlands
Ilse Voskamp; Wageningen University; Landscape Architecture; Wageningen; Netherlands
Narrative in landscape design: a must in the context of renewable energy transition?
Renée M. de Waal; Wageningen University; Landscape Architecture Group; Wageningen; Netherlands
Ingrid Duchhart; Wageningen University; Landscape Architecture Group; Wageningen; Netherlands
Ron van Lammeren; Wageningen University; Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing; Wageningen; Netherlands
Adri van den Brink; Wageningen University; Landscape Architecture Group; Wageningen; Netherlands
Urban energy landscapes: From theory to planning and design practice
Changsoon Choi; Wageningen University; Landscape Architecture; Wageningen; Netherlands
Tom van Heeswijk; Wageningen University; Landscape Architecture; Wageningen; Netherlands
Sven Stremke; Wageningen University; Landscape Architecture; Wageningen; Netherlands
From the conference website: European landscapes are being reshaped by the growth in renewable energies and the ongoing exploitation of fossil resources such as lignite (brown coal) and shale gas. These forces are at the heart of debates on the assessment, appropriate design and governance of the emerging energy landscapes. European and national policies for energy transitions challenge conventional ways of perceiving and thinking about landscapes as well as established planning routines.
Key questions are:
• Perception – How is the character, perception, assessment and social construction of landscapes influenced by present and past uses of energy?
• Planning – Which types of landscape-related planning and governance regimes exist and how are they linked to landscape planning, spatial planning and energy policy?
• Participation – In the face of energy transitions, to what extent are landscape policies inclusive and participatory? Which actors are involved and who is constituted as an actor in this regard?
• Power – Which power relations shape the interplay of energies and landscapes? How can the workings of power be conceptualised and critically reflected?
