ATTENDING LANDSCAPES ONLINE COURSE WITH HARRI HARRISON

ATTENDING LANDSCAPES
ONLINE COURSE
WITH HARRI HARRISON
SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2026

Attending Landscapes: Walking, Listening and Mapping
with Harri Harrison

13th & 27th September and 11th & 25th October 2026 at 3-5pm (UK time)

Join us for a four-session online course exploring how to see and sense landscape through shared attention and mapping practices.

Held fortnightly, these sessions explore deep, attentive relationships with landscape.  Through walking, listening and sensory mapping, we will practise acts of witnessing and encounter with green environments. Together, we will ask how we come to know a place deeply, how we can understand its stories, acknowledging both abundance and absence, and how these stories might help us understand our own internal landscapes.

Led by artist Harri Harrison and hosted by IMT Gallery, the sessions include plant knowledge, drawing, writing, and observational exercises, alongside examples of how writers and artists have walked with and tended land. There will also be dedicated time to share and map your own landscapes. Between sessions, Harri will share creative prompts centred on walking, carrying, listening, and sensory exchange with place. You will be encouraged to record and develop an immersive relationship with a local green space. This place might be one you have yet to discover, or one you know but have overlooked: a humble tree pit, a hedgerow path, or a mountain trail. You will learn to time-travel with this land.

Course Details

Live Sessions: Each session takes place online via Zoom from 3-5pm (UK time).

Recordings: All sessions will be recorded and made available to registered participants for a limited time. While attending live gives you the opportunity to take part in group discussions and creative exercises, recordings are available if you need to catch up.

Booking: Your booking includes access to all four sessions.

  🐦 Early Bird rates are available until 2 August at 11:59pm BST.

Pic d'Arraillé, Pyrénées, France,
photographed by Harri Harrison

Session 1: How to Get Lost

To begin this series, we will share our experiences of connecting to nature. Together, we will think about how we can find landscapes to slow down in, to get lost within, where we can give ourselves permission to stop. How can places we know well become new to us again? How can we encounter landscapes on sensory, historical and personal levels, and who do we become when we spend time within them? What connections have we lost, or never formed? We will examine the privilege (time, race, gender, class, postcode, age, mobility) of walking and visiting green spaces and how we can invite others to walk with us. We will draw paths and routes remembered. Through a guided writing exercise, we will fragment and pull apart the landscapes we see from our windows, exploring how familiar views can become strange and layered. We will look at the writing of Nan Shepherd, who returned to the same hills again and again, coming to know the Cairngorms intimately.

In between sessions, you will be encouraged to explore small acts of fieldwork through guided walking prompts, noticing, and walking mythologies. The invitation is to build a layered relationship by returning to one place. These encounters will feed into future sessions, where we will share and learn about each other’s landscapes.

Victoria Park, London, UK,
photographed by Harri Harrison

Session 2: A Ritual of Arrival

Returning to the landscapes we visited between sessions, we will share our experiences and explore what it means to arrive within a landscape. What grounding tools and shared practices can help us move through these spaces with accountability and presence? We will reflect on and write our own ways of moving through and relating to these spaces. We will explore the rules of these landscapes. Who owns them, and does that change how we access them? What stories do these lands hold? We will draw and create biographies of more-than-human lives, from plants, trees, puddles, and paths.

Are we welcome here, and who are we sharing this land with? Together, we will discuss the obstacles to walking, moments when we are not welcome, and how access to land is shaped by power, ownership and history. We will think about historical and playful acts of resistance, from the politics of tree pits to the Kinder Scout mass trespass, alongside conversations around our relationship to land through the writing of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass.

Col d'Arraillé (taken from), Pyrénées, France,
photographed by Harri Harrison

Session 3: Wayfinding

We will look at different ways of pathfinding and marking paths across cultures and landscapes, including cairns in the Pyrenees and ribbons tied to trees along paths in Yakushima, Japan. We will explore desire paths and the different interpretations of them. We will think about wayfinding and mapping, including oral storytelling, and navigation carried through language and memory. Through guided listening exercises via a window at home, we will create and share maps of sounds. Alongside practitioners and writers, including Sophie Leguil and David Abram, and the walking-based practices of Hamish Fulton and Richard Long, we will explore paths, traces, and different ways of navigating landscapes.

Akawara trail to Jomon Sugi, Yakushima, Japan,
photographed by Harri Harrison

Session 4: Holding Weeds and Finding Treasure

In our final session, we will consider grounding our practices and finding ways of returning. What mythologies and practices from these sessions can continue in daily life? How can we continue these ways of encountering and mapping beyond the sessions? How do relationships with landscapes deepen through repeated visits, acts of witnessing and seasonal change?

Alongside artists including Derek Jarman’s work at Prospect Cottage and Imani Jacqueline Brown’s mapping of colonial histories and environmental extraction in Louisiana, we will think about different ways people map, tend to and grow alongside places over time. We will work with the rosehip as a way of thinking about seasonal change, slowing down to notice, transformation and continuation, using it as a metaphor for carrying this practice beyond the sessions themselves.

We’ll stay connected through a dedicated WhatsApp group, offering a space to share reflections, ideas, and inspiration as the course unfolds.

About Harri Harrison:

Harri Harrison is a multimedia artist whose practice integrates performance, text-based projections, plant-based work, and alternative photography processes, engaging directly with urban environments. They explore notions of place, community, grief, gratitude, and belonging, inviting us to reconsider our relationship to nature and future communities.

Harri has over 14 years of experience leading creative workshops, collaborating with institutions such as Cubitt Gallery, PEER Gallery, and Phytology at Bethnal Green Nature Reserve and IMT Gallery.

This workshop is for anyone interested in developing a more attentive relationship with landscape and green space. It is particularly suited to artists, writers, educators and other creatives working with ideas of place, as well as walkers and anyone wishing to reconnect with, discover, or deepen their relationship with local environments.

Reserve your place here to join this online course and develop a more attentive relationship with the landscapes around you.