Ungrounding

The inaugural installation featured on the Outdoor Canvas is ‘Ungrounding' by design studio The Rodina. The artwork explores technology used at the Begbroke site throughout time, telling the story of the landscape by weaving together data imagery from the University of Oxford’s Polymer Group: Department of Materials’ research with artefacts found during archaeological excavations in the area, ranging from Saxon copper brooches and axe heads to keys and horse harnesses. Combining cutting-edge materials research with relics of a bygone age – ‘the lab and the land’ – puts past and present into dialogue, painting a picture of the local landscape, and offering space for conversation, new ideas, and connections between art and science.

Curated by Company, Place for Oxford University Development ‘Another Landscape’ is an ongoing project that builds community from the soil up. The programme directly responds to, and is in dialogue with, the surrounding landscape and those that inhabit it – prioritising local materials, innovation, knowledge exchange, co-design, experimentation, local stewardship and space for researc