Celebrated writer and historian Ken Worpole (New Jerusalem:The Good City and the Good Society & The New English Landscape), will discuss the role of landscape as heritage, as a rich pictorial tradition in art, as an ecology, and, perhaps most importantly, as a site of crucial contemporary debates about the value and meaning of place in a modern, post-industrial society. He will also reflect on the history of garden cities and new towns, and the political and social factors that continue to shape and influence communities.

Visual Artist Marc Atkinson will also discuss his current exhibition of video and photography documenting the outer edge of Peterborough.

An opportunity for discussion will follow the talks on how future planning policies could better reflect the needs of our diverse and fast moving society.

The talk forms part of the group exhibition Resident, which will also be open and free to the public.

‘For many years, Ken Worpole has been one of the shrewdest and sharpest observers of the English social landscape’.

The Independent

Supported by Arts Council England, Metal and Vivacity.