Picturing Place: exploring the geographical imagination

The Nottingham branch of the Geographical Association - School of Education and School of Geography -  are pleased to host this seminar.

Presented by Stephen Daniels, Professor Emeritus of Cultural Geography.

This presentation explores the key concept of place in human geography, through its picturing in graphic media, in artworks like paintings and film, but also in more documentary and factual works like maps and photographs. It offers a case study of how to analyse and interpret such graphic works to reveal the meanings and values people attach to places, and explores how the making of such works might help us to look more closely at the landscapes around us. Looking at how places have been pictured helps us appreciate the wider realms of the geographical imagination, the way we see the world and our place in it.  

Stephen Daniels is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Nottingham where he has worked since 1981. Before that he taught in secondary and adult education in London. He is the author and editor of several key works on cultural geography, with a focus on landscape and the arts, notably The Iconography of Landscape (1988), Fields of Vision (1992), Exploring Human Geography (1996), Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds: Geography and the Humanities (2011), Landscapes of the National Trust (2015). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and in 2015 was awarded the Victoria Medal, the Royal Geographical Society's highest honour for research in geography.