This congress will take place in Guimarães, Portugal from 24–26 November 2026.
Landscapes are not backdrops. They are territories we move through, read with our bodies, and continually remake through practice and attention.
Uncertain Landscapes 2: Beyond the Resources is an international, transdisciplinary congress that takes landscape as a conceptual tool for rethinking how we inhabit the world, across disciplines, across scales, and across forms of knowledge. The congress welcomes not only academic papers but artistic projects, making it a space where practice-based and research-based work meet on equal terms.
Proposals are invited across six themes:
- Beyond Heritage: Invisibility of Memories and Visibility of the Process
- Beyond Paradigms: Complexity, Epistemological Ruptures and the Untold History
- Beyond (Ab)use: Landscapes of Care
- Beyond the Urban: Old Geographies with New Forms of Construction
- Beyond the Surface: Regenerative Practices
- Beyond Progress: Embracing Cooperation, Slowness and Indeterminacy
Each author may submit up to 2 proposals: communications/posters (Option A), papers (Option B1) or projects (Option B2).
Keynote speakers include Tim Waterman, Space Transcribers, Marcelo Rosenbaum, Idoia Cuesta, and João Nunes.
The event is in-person and takes place at Teatro Jordão and Centro Cultural Vila Flor in Guimarães, Portugal.
Submission deadline: 15 June 2026 The organising team is open to accommodating specific situations. If the deadline is a constraint, it is worth reaching out directly.
Notification of acceptance: 10 July 2026 Full timeline and submission forms, here.
Enquiries: uncertainlandscapes@lab2pt.uminho.pt
An initiative of Lab2PT / IN2PAST / UMinho and Câmara Municipal de Guimarães.
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