Teaching with landscape architecture archives: State of the Art
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Teaching with landscape architecture archives: State of the Art

Hybrid academic workshop held at The MERL

By The Museum of English Rural Life (The MERL)

Date and time

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 10:00 - 16:00 GMT+1

Location

The Museum of English Rural Life

6 Redlands Road Reading RG1 5EX United Kingdom

About this event

  • Event lasts 6 hours

The workshop will examine ways to incorporate landscape collections in academic teaching, using examples from the University of Reading, the University of Liverpool and others. There will be a particular emphasis on the challenges and opportunities, both practical and pedagogical, of teaching remotely with collections.

This workshop (one of six regional workshops across Europe) is offered as part of “Connecting Landscape Architecture Archives to enhance European landscape practice, research and education (ConnectLAA)”. This is  an interdisciplinary research network funded under the European Co-operation in Science and Technology (ECOST) programme.

For more details see Action CA23128 - COST 

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The MERL was established in Reading in 1951 to capture and record the rapidly changing countryside following World War II. In 2005, it moved to its current premises in St Andrew’s Hall, a building designed by Sir Alfred Waterhouse in 1880 for local businessman Alfred Palmer of the Huntley & Palmer biscuit company.

Today the Museum uses its diverse and surprising collection to explore how the skills and experiences of farmers and craftspeople, past and present, can help shape our lives now and into the future. The Museum has worked alongside rural people, local communities and specialist researchers to create displays and activities that engage with important debates about the future of food and the ongoing relevance of the countryside to all our lives.

The MERL belongs to the University of Reading Museums and Special Collections Service (UMASCS).