International Congress Uncertain Landscapes 2: Beyond the Resources, organised by the research unit Lab2PT at the University of Minho, which will take place in Guimarães, Portugal, from 24 to 26 November 2026. The call for papers is currently open until 31 May 2026.
The conference will address landscape as a conceptual tool to rethink our ways of inhabiting the world, to challenge disciplinary boundaries in the search for responses to contemporary issues concerning the relationship between human beings and the spaces they inhabit, and as an instrument for imagining diversified futures grounded in the knowledge of the past, while acknowledging the permeability of territory and respect for the environment.
We welcome proposals for abstracts and papers from academics, practitioners, theorists, and researchers working in areas such as architecture, landscape architecture, archaeology, visual arts, design, media and communication studies, history, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, art history, photography, geography, geology, the natural sciences, and any other related fields of research.
The conference is structured around six thematic areas:
- BEYOND HERITAGES: Invisibility of Memories and Visibility of Process
- BEYOND PARADIGMS: Complexity, Epistemological Ruptures, and the Untold Story
- BEYOND (AB)USE: Landscapes of Care
- BEYOND THE URBAN: Old Geographies with New Ways of Making
- BEYOND THE SURFACE: Regenerative Practices
- BEYOND PROGRESS: Embracing Cooperation, Slowness, and Indeterminacy
