{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"Concerning Landscape","link":"https:\/\/concerninglandscape.org","description":"Concerning Landscape","pubDate":"Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:25:21 +0000","generator":"https:\/\/concerninglandscape.org","language":"en","item":[{"title":"Home","link":"https:\/\/concerninglandscape.org\/Home","pubDate":"Fri, 05 May 2023 14:08:18 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/concerninglandscape.org\/Home","description":"Concerning Landscapeinfo@concerninglandscape.org\n\t\nConcerning Landscape is an interdisciplinary arts and ecology organization dedicated to land care and community-rooted stewardship in the northeast San Fernando Valley. Through site-specific projects and public programs, we engage the ecological and cultural histories of the Angeles National Forest and the San Gabriel and Verdugo Mountain foothills. Centering Indigenous knowledge and practice, we work to deepen public understanding of regional biodiversity and fire-adapted ecologies, cultivating practices of care attuned to place.\n\n\n\nOur three Major Initiatives at this time include:No Canyon Hills (NCH) NCH is a community coalition forged in solidarity with the plant and animal communities of the Verdugo Mountains in Los Angeles, ancestral land and unceded territory of the Fernande\u00f1o Tataviam Band of Mission Indians, and the Gabrieleno (Tongva) Band of Mission Indians.\nCatalyzed by a proposal to build a luxury gated development on 300+ acres of intact native habitat in the Verdugos, NCH deploys cooperative actions and interventionist strategies across social, political, educational, and legislative registers. NCH works as a multiform entity to conceive and realize urgent anti-colonial land conservation solutions.\nSupport for No Canyon Hills comes from Metabolic Studio and the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment.View the coalition page: No Canyon Hills\n \nTransverse Range\nTransverse Range is an interdisciplinary office for ecological inquiry and cultural work, rooted in the foothills of Tujunga. Situated within the dynamic ecotone of the Transverse Ranges, the residency invites writers, researchers, designers and cultural practitioners to engage deeply with the local ecology, Indigenous histories, and evolving land-use narratives of the northeast San Fernando Valley and Crescenta Valley. Through seasonal residencies, public programs, and collaborative fieldwork, the program cultivates a growing network of interdisciplinary practitioners committed to expanding place-based knowledge and fostering reciprocal relationships with the land. By centering localized observation, critical inquiry, and creative response, the residency aims to generate new understandings of this fire-adapted, biodiverse region\u2014its layered histories, present vulnerabilities, and future possibilities.\nChaparral Commons (CC)CC is a site-specific educational garden-in-progress at the Transverse Range Residency in Tujunga, designed to model the native chaparral ecosystem of the Verdugo-San Gabriels and to serve as a place of reorientation\u2014away from centuries of fire suppression and extractive land use, and toward an ethic of fire-adapted stewardship informed by Indigenous knowledge systems. Rooted in experiential education and community participation, the garden will function as a living classroom. Chaparral Commons seeks to recenter such practices at the scale of the residential+\/community garden.\n\n--\n\nCopyright 2025 \/ Concerning Landscape, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. \n \n\ue025\ufe0e\n\n\t\n"},{"title":"Transverse Range-Info","link":"https:\/\/concerninglandscape.org\/Transverse-Range-Info","pubDate":"Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:19:13 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/concerninglandscape.org\/Transverse-Range-Info","description":"A research office and residency program in the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains, Tujunga. \n\nLocation: Tujunga, CA 91042\nElevation: 1800 ft.\n\n\"Huntington\n\n \nSituated in Tujunga at the edge of the Angeles National Forest, the Transverse Range Residency invites practitioners to engage with the layered ecological and cultural histories of the San Fernando and Crescenta Valleys. The program offers time, space, and grounding for interdisciplinary work rooted in the specificity of place.\nWe welcome individuals whose practices intersect with land care, gardening, environmental justice, Indigenous history, ecology, architecture, research, theory, and the arts. Residents are encouraged to explore the local chaparral biome, wildland-urban interface, watershed systems, and the interwoven narratives of settlement, displacement, and resistance that continue to shape the region. We believe that careful observation, study, and creative responses can contribute to a deeper public understanding of how we live within\u2014and in relation to\u2014the land and its multispecies inhabitants.\n\nWhether you're mapping a watershed, writing about fire regimes, listening for birdsong, or tracing stories carried by wind and stone, we invite you to join a network of interdisciplinary thinkers and makers expanding knowledge of this unique region. \nResidencies include access to garden and research spaces, informal field support, and opportunities to share work-in-progress with local communities.\n\nFind more information and residency details, here. \n\n\n\n\n\nTransverse Range Residency sits on unceded territory and ancestral land of the Fernande\u00f1o Tataviam and Gabrieleno Tongva Band of Mission Indians.\n\nRESIDENCY DETAILS"},{"title":"Transverse Range-Apply","link":"https:\/\/concerninglandscape.org\/Transverse-Range-Apply","pubDate":"Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:25:21 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/concerninglandscape.org\/Transverse-Range-Apply","description":"\nThe Transverse Range Residency is an interdisciplinary office for ecological inquiry, located in the foothills of Tujunga, Los Angeles. Situated within the dynamic ecotone of the Transverse Ranges, the residency invites researchers and cultural practitioners to engage deeply with local ecology, Indigenous histories, and evolving land-use narratives of the northeast San Fernando Valley and Crescenta Valley. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAll residencies are funded and span two weeks (14 days) at the Transverse Range cabin in Tujunga. \n\nAPPLY NOW \n\n\tRESIDENCY DETAILS\nResidencies at Transverse Range typically span two weeks (14 days).\n\nResidents enjoy a private cabin with lodging and workspace in Tujunga, Los Angeles, CA 91042. \nTujunga is located approximately 18 miles from Downtown L.A., and 12 miles to Highland Park\/Silverlake.\n\nResidents agree to participate in a public program (lecture, reading, screening) at Bolton Hall in Tujunga during or within one month of their residency.\n\nResidents are self-directed and self-sufficient in the cabin without technical or production needs from the residency.\n\nResidents have access to SAYER\u2019S storefront and Chaparral Commons garden during their residency. \nLocal residents are free to use the Residency as an office\/studio and return home as desired.\n\nNOTE: 1Due to the architectural limitations of the historic cabin house, TR is not currently ADA\/wheelchair accessible. 2Cabin can comfortably accomodate single guests only. 3Pets welcome at the Residency\u2019s discretion.\n\t\n\n\n\n\tFEES & FUNDING\nThis residency is funded. Funding covers studio and lodging accommodations for the two-week residency period. \n\nAccepted applicants who commit to a residency term are responsible for a one-time, non-refundable $120 Administration Fee Donation to the residency within three weeks of acceptance. There are no additional costs to attend. \n\nTravel, meal, material and research expenses are the resident's responsibility.\n\nAPPLICATION \nInternational, United States, and CA-based eligibility.\n\nApplication Fee: $30 Donation (NOTAFLOF)\nCalendar is flexible and determined by resident\u2019s needs.\n\nApplicants notified of acceptance, waitlist or decline within four weeks of submission.\nWe look forward to connecting with you.\n\t\n\nAPPLY NOW\n\n"}]}}