Get inspired by Marit Jansen, anthropologist working on water and human relations
Marit Jansen
What if you could not only observe a landscape, but enter into conversation with it?
In this session, we explore how we relate to landscapes and the more-than-human world around us. We usually experience places through human perspectives, but what happens if we try to listen differently?
Using the Kleine Beerze as a case study, we explore voices that are usually unheard. Not because they are absent, but because they do not speak our language. Yet they are constantly present shaping, flowing through, and sustaining the landscapes we live in.
- What would a river tell us if it could speak?
- The groundwater beneath our feet?
- The soil that holds everything together?
- And what about the people who live and work here from small-scale farmers to intensive arable systems? What becomes visible when we try to truly imagine their perspectives?
This is an invitation to give voice to what normally has no voice not as a literal claim, but as a way of imagining, sensing, and relating differently to the landscape and everything that depends on it.
Join us and step into another voice.
We will open with short poetic fragments from earlier research, written from perspectives such as voices of water and the farmer’s son small glimpses of how a landscape might sound when it is given a voice.
Not to speak for the landscape.
But to practice listening differently.
Program
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Walk-in, registration & grab a sandwich |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Welcome and inspirational talk by Sandra |
| 15:30 – 16:15 | Facilitated discussions & assignment in smaller groups |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Reflection & closing |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Informal drinks |
