Looking for reparative futures
How are humans interacting with the natural and social environments they inhabit? And what kinds of landscapes emerge from these entanglements? These are questions that have occasioned my work for the last 12 years. I am significantly interested in heritage landscapes and environmental futures, and the cultural significance of working with environmental transformation within the fields of landscape architecture and planning. Amid this ecological crisis and on the edge of the future, I am looking for reparative ecosocial landscaping practices – past, present, and future.
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Jordbo
Jordbo er et ugebrev som jeg har skabt sammen med Søren Høgh Ipland fra medieplatformen Føljeton. Jordbo er rundet af en dyb interesse for samspillet mellem mennesker og natur, og har vokset sig til et slags flydende katalog over en verden i radikal forandring. Siden det første brev blev sendt 2. februar 2020 har brevenes formater ændret sig: der har været sendt et månedligt brev om en art eller miljø og deres forskellige kultur-relationer, korte interviews med mennesker, der arbejder indenfor forskning, landbrug, kunst og kultur, Forvildet Læsning, som er en bærepose med historier om miljø, landskaber og beboelsesfilosofi, og Et øjeblik, der er en slags aftenmeditation.
Vi har desuden udgivet en kalender-dagbog i 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 – de er som arkiver med meditationer, mærkedage og mindedage (fx meteoregne og havgræsser, moser og enge). De første to blev lavet i samarbejde med bogbinder Louise Midjord og grafiker Benjamin Graahede. Med 2023, 2024, 2025 og 2026 versionerne udviklede indholdet sig markant, og er blevet formgivet af Mads Christian Sandholm.
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Books
Øje for landskab / Eye for Landscape
‘Eye for Landscape’ is an exhibition/studio space about landscapes and landscape shaping practices – human and non-human – that I have curated together with Esrum Kloster & Møllegård / Esrum Abbey & Mill in Northern Sealand, Denmark. It opened in January 2026, and will unfold as a semi-permanent space.
The landscapes around Esrum are full of stories. People have lived here for thousands of years, their various practices deeply entangled with the natural world. Throughout time, humans have inhabited and adapted life and landscapes in different ways – meaning these landscapes form a kind of living archive. An archive that can teach us about changing relations between place, people and nature.
A landscape’s histories are rarely simple. But they can both be useful and inspiring, especially at this moment when the roles humans play in the natural world, in the landcapes are being discussed and retought. Getting an eye for the landscapes we dwell in and move through, and for their complex histories, has rarely been more important. Therefore the exhibition have sought to make space for the landscapes’ many stories, their 'throwntogetherness' and diversity.
In ‘Eye for Landscape’, you can leaf through and read the books, hold tinder fungus in your hands, touch and smell the objects; rest and reflect by the desks, listen to forest sounds; immerse yourself in stories, a craft, or simply gaze out of the window for a while... We have worked with a form of storytelling intended to be poetic, informative and analogue sensory – hopefully in a way so you may almost smell, hear and feel the landscapes on the other side of the windows.
(c) Emmy Laura Pérez Fjalland, 2026