Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s DAWN issue. This bright, awakening, and challenging composition comprises a multitude of world views, places, and experiences. We explore new beginnings, transitions, dawnings, and realisations. New landscapes are explored. New places ventured. New experiences, in familiar environs, are retold. New is often seen as positive, yet change is often more complex, and we look at this too. With our return comes an expanded scope. Whilst retaining a core travel emphasis, we have added ‘place’ and ‘nature.’ Essays in Panorama have always been place-based but this increased focus on the natural world opens up new avenues to explore. With this in mind, we have added a new Ecology & Conservation Editor, Julia Knights, who uses this first issue to speak with world-leading botanist Ghillean Prance. The result is an enlightening and frightening conversation about the Amazon rainforest.
...For select important things (2022), I have created my own knowledge system to navigate the shifting landscape of meaning and meaning-making in the 21st century. This knowledge system, a collection of video fragments that combine stock footage with original spoken texts, contrasts my deeply subjective understanding of the world with images of its generalities. Through a series of installations for online and physical sites, the project considers increasingly fraught questions about how humans make knowledge and how that knowledge, in turn, (re)makes the world.
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