{"id":6219,"date":"2017-11-30T13:29:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T13:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/?p=6219"},"modified":"2017-11-30T13:29:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T13:29:33","slug":"the-hawksmoor-international-lecture-series-2017-2018-kenneth-r-olwig-greenwich-and-the-genesis-of-landscape-as-scenic-space-and-the-enclosure-of-landscape-as-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/2017\/11\/30\/the-hawksmoor-international-lecture-series-2017-2018-kenneth-r-olwig-greenwich-and-the-genesis-of-landscape-as-scenic-space-and-the-enclosure-of-landscape-as-commons\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2017-2018 :: Kenneth R. Olwig :: Greenwich and the Genesis of Landscape as Scenic Space \u2013 and the Enclosure of Landscape as \u2018Commons\u2019 Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Thursday 7<sup>th<\/sup> December 2017, 6.30pm<\/li>\n<li>Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6220\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/11\/171207_Kenneth-Olwig_flyer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/11\/171207_Kenneth-Olwig_flyer.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/11\/171207_Kenneth-Olwig_flyer-212x300.png 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Greenwich is the site of locations symbolically\u00a0key to both the genesis of landscape as scenic space and the common(s)\u00a0landscapes of polity\u00a0and place enclosed and appropriated by scenic landscape.\u00a0One location is the Royal Observatory, home\u00a0to the phantom \u201cpresence\u201d of the\u00a0prime meridian \u2013 key to the mapping of the \u201cglobal\u201d\u00a0space ruled by the neighbouring Royal Navy.\u00a0Another is the Queen\u2019s House, designed by\u00a0Inigo Jones for Queen Anne of\u00a0Denmark, where she and her court might have had a mean time performing masques within\u00a0Jones\u2019 designed\u00a0landscape scenery if Anne had lived to see its completion.<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth R. Olwig is professor emeritus at the Department of\u00a0Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, at the Swedish University of\u00a0Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp.\u00a0His\u00a0focus\u00a0has been on the history of landscape in theory and practice, and the\u00a0relationship between landscape and differing ideas of law, justice and\u00a0democracy.\u00a0He is the author of\u00a0\u2018Landscape, Nature and the Body Politic\u2019\u00a0and is currently preparing a collection of his journal articles to be published\u00a0by Routledge under the provisional title \u2018The Meanings of\u00a0Landscape:\u00a0Essays on Place, Space, Environment and Justice\u2019.\u00a0He was born on Staten Island,\u00a0New York City, and has taught at universities in Norway, Sweden and Denmark,\u00a0where he resides.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 7th December 2017, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003] Greenwich is the site of locations symbolically\u00a0key to both the genesis of landscape as scenic space and the common(s)\u00a0landscapes of polity\u00a0and place enclosed and appropriated by scenic landscape.\u00a0One location is the Royal Observatory, home\u00a0to the phantom \u201cpresence\u201d of the\u00a0prime meridian \u2013 key to the mapping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-6219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-and-exhibitions","category-news","category-open-lectures","tag-kenneth-olwig"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}