PECSRL - The Permanent European Conference for the Study of Rural Landscapes, Lisbon

After leaving Stavanger I travelled to Lisbon, Portugal to give a paper at the PECSRL conference - 'Landscapes, Identities and Development'. My paper 'Sculptural Intervention as Action Research; Pedal Power at Bybrua Bridge, Norway' was in the special session about renewable Energies - 'Emerging Energies, Emerging Landscapes'. As an artisit in a conference dominated by geographers and anthropologists, I felt quite daunted to begin with. However, the paper seemed to go down well and although I did come at the subject from a very different angle, many of the issues of scale, ownership and community participation were shared. I also learned a great deal from many of the the other researchers.