Review: 23.–29.11.2025 Workshop »in Landschaft denken. Begegnungen mit der Natur an der Schnittstelle von Kunst und Wissenschaft«, Leifers

1 December 2025

From November 23 to 29, 2025, twelve researchers and artists came together at the Buchnerhof in Laives/Leifers to explore new ways of perceiving and articulating landscape – beyond the classical separation of nature and culture. The workshop focused on how the concept of landscape can be rethought in times of ecological transformation. The energy transition, climate change and intensive land use increasingly challenge familiar notions of landscape as a scenic view or harmonious nature. As a result, the concept of landscape enters a state of crisis, while remaining essential to express and renegotiate our relationship with the environment. Through theoretical inputs and practical experiments in the South Tyrolean mountain landscape – from listening and collecting to mapping, somatic practices, writing and walking together – participants explored alternative ways of experiencing and articulating landscape as a relational space.

Participants included: Friederike Schäfer, Barbara Gamper, Isabell Schmock Wieczorek, Frida Teller, Christina Katharina May, Gerd Micheluzzi, Anna Bitter, Robert Henschel, Luc Wodzicki, and Jennifer Fauster.

The workshop was organized by Franca Buss and Vanessa Engelmann, and funded by the Elisabeth und Helmuth Uhl-Stiftung and the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S.