On Environment with Matthew Gandy: “Attentive Observation: Walking, Listening, Staying Put”
Lecture Series
05.11.2025 at 18:00
Location: A125, LMU Main Building, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich
This lecture will be given by Matthew Gandy (University of Cambridge).
In this presentation Matthew Gandy will suggest that a renewed emphasis on “attentive observation,” as both a form of radical empiricism and a source of imaginative insight, might contribute towards building a more nuanced conception of urban and environmental research that is better attuned to the multisensory and multispecies textures of material geographies. He will focus on interactions with nature, landscape, and nonhuman others in an urban context but his argument has wider connotations for concerns with embodied methodologies, critical phenomenology, and slower forms of research.
This event is part of the lecture series “On Environment.” The series is organized by the Chair of Environmental Humanities at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.
Environment is a broad conceptual idea with a history and many meanings. Today, the term is used ubiquitously. We are closely connected to what surrounds us and live in an environment more and less shaped by humans. In this series of lectures scholars from different disciplines address the concept, providing a lens into what it may mean to think environmentally.