Share your work with LEX
Got a landscape story, artwork, idea or perspective worth sharing?
The Landscape Exchange (LEX) is the Landscape Research Group’s online magazine for accessible, engaging ideas about landscape.
We publish writing, conversations, images, artwork, audio, video and creative work from people working across research, practice, communities and creative fields around the world.
LEX complements our peer-reviewed journal, Landscape Research, but has a different purpose: to help landscape ideas travel and reach wider audiences.
Share your work as an LRG member
Publishing through LEX is one of the ways LRG members can share their work, ideas and perspectives with our international community. Members can pitch or submit contributions at any time, with opportunities to reach new audiences through LEX and wider LRG communications.
Not yet a member?
Join LRG to contribute to LEX and become part of our international landscape community.
What makes a good LEX contribution?
Bring us an idea, story, experience, question, form of expression, argument or way of seeing landscape that offers something worth exploring.
Whatever the subject:
Draw your audience in. Make your contribution accessible beyond your immediate field and explain specialist ideas where needed.
Be grounded and trustworthy. Contributions should be accurate and grounded in relevant research, practice, evidence, experience or observation.
Give us enough context. Local and highly specific stories are welcome — help our international audience understand where they are and why it matters.
Open up the conversation. Leave your audience with a new question, connection, perspective or possibility.
We welcome work across disciplines, professions, communities, places and ways of knowing, but this is not a requirement.
What can I contribute?
These are starting points, not rigid categories.
If your idea works better in another form — or combines several — pitch it to us.
| Format | Length | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Feature | 1,500–2,500 words | Explore an important landscape idea, issue, place, project or debate. |
| Perspective | 800–1,500 words | Make an argument, offer a reflection or share a distinctive point of view. |
| Field notes | 500–1,000 words | Share observations from a place, project, journey, event or fieldwork. |
| Dispatch | 400–800 words | Respond to something happening in landscape, practice or place. |
| Conversation | Flexible | Interviews, dialogues and exchanges in writing, audio or video. |
| Review / response | 800–1,500 words | Use a book, exhibition, project, policy, artwork or idea to open up a bigger question. |
| Photo essay | 6–12 images + text | Tell a landscape story primarily through images. |
| Art / creative practice | Flexible | Painting · drawing · sculpture · installation · performance · dance · sound · mixed media. |
| Watch / listen | Flexible | Podcasts · conversations · interviews · short films · video essays · multimedia · performance. |
For written contributions, 600–1,800 words is the LEX sweet spot. Need more or less? Say what you need to say.
Think visually
LEX is an online magazine, so how a contribution looks, sounds and works on screen matters.
Where relevant, provide a strong lead image and visual or multimedia material that helps communicate your work, together with appropriate captions and credits.
Images, media & accessibility →
Preserving your research
If you want to preserve the research or creative work behind your LEX contribution, our Preserving and Sharing Your Research guide introduces established repositories and explains how to connect deposited material to your LEX publication.
Explore preservation guidance →
Themes and ideas
Your contribution may connect with LRG’s current research themes, including Climate Communities: People and Landscape in an Age of Change — but it doesn’t have to.
We welcome compelling ideas, perspectives and creative responses from across the breadth of landscape research and practice.
Want help shaping your contribution?
Our Contributing to LEX → guide offers practical ideas for developing written, visual, audio and creative work for online audiences.
Keep in mind
Be inclusive. Respect people, communities, cultures and ways of knowing, and follow appropriate consent and ethical processes.
Be transparent. Tell us about relevant funding, professional or commercial interests, previous publication and any substantive use of generative AI.
Languages
LEX welcomes submissions in any language.
Where a contribution is accepted, we aim to publish it both in its original language and in English. Where possible, we ask contributors to provide or arrange an English translation and approve the final version.
If translation would create a barrier to submitting, talk to us and we’ll explore what support may be possible.
Pitch or submit
I have an idea
Pitch it in 100–200 words. Tell us what you want to explore, what's interesting about it and why LEX audiences might care.
My contribution is ready
Send us your contribution and the information requested for your chosen format.
Every submission is editorially reviewed by LRG. We may accept it, suggest changes or decide it isn’t right for LEX. LEX contributions are editorially reviewed; they do not undergo academic peer review.
By submitting, you’ll be asked to confirm that you have read and agree to the LEX Publication Terms →
Not sure? Talk to us →
Contributor resources
Propose an event
Members propose most of our programme: walks, webinars, workshops and symposia. Bring us an idea and a network to host it, and we will help you shape it.