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Join us for this two-day public event presented by the Future Places Centre, Lancaster University

Morecambe Milieux

Join us for this two-day public event presented by the Future Places Centre, Lancaster University that will stage conversations between academics with artists, designers, local communities and policy practitioners.

The event will present a diversity of perspectives relating research and work from the Bay, and its upstream settings along-side other inter-tidal, wetland and coastal contexts from around the world. Conversations will critically engage with the relationship between environmental knowledge and action in the face of climate vulnerability while opening up a variety of ways for thinking about and experiencing wetlands and watery environments.

Our meeting will create a site for civic, academic and artistic engagement and a public forum for knowledge-sharing amongst researchers, artists, place-based professionals and communities. It will create a dialogue between Morecambe Bay and other examples from different and aligned contexts, into the development of and implications arising from data practices and trans-disciplinary knowledge making and their relationship to environmental science, policy and management.

Along-side the event will be the Aqueous Futures exhibition of contemporary multi-media art and design work engaging with coastal and marine environments and communities.

The event is framed around the concept of milieu which is a word that can have at least two meanings. In one sense a “milieu” is an environment in which one is situated and gives life. A “milieu” can also be a medium or media which communicates and transmits information or material. By positioning Morecambe Bay as a milieu or multiple milieux at once, the programme will explore how it is that we mediate our environment and how it in turn, mediates us.

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Wednesday September 6th 9AM-6PM & Thursday September 7th 9AM- 1.30PM