Festival of Social Sciences: Landscape: bringing the outside in and the inside out

Join Lancaster Arts for an afternoon of art and conversation on our 2025 theme of LAND.

Over the past year, Lancaster Arts has been exploring the theme of land with artists, researchers, community groups and with people whose lives and livelihoods are rooted in the landscape as well as those who may feel more disconnected. In recent months, we've hosted residencies with artists Kate Fox and Ellie Harrison alongside academics from Lancaster University, to see where their creative explorations and thinking might take them.

Across these residencies, compelling questions have emerged: What is our personal attachment to the landscapes around us? How do we find our place in a landscape, shape it and be shaped by it? What is the relationship between our inner landscapes and the physical ones around us? How do we bring the land inside (our buildings or our bodies)? This ongoing exchange between the outer environment and our inner lives is central to how we live, create, and connect with each other and the land around us.

Please bring your own experiences of connections to the landscapes. Our partners artists and academics will share some of the questions and responses they have had to this theme in the last year. Part of the national ESRC Festival of Social Science, 18 October – 8 November 2025.

This event is free, but booking is essential with limited numbers. If you book and can no longer attend, please let us know so we can release your place to someone else.