CABE: Community-led spaces

CABE (the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) have published a new guide for community groups taking on responsibility for greenspaces.

Visualising Blessed Unrest

Chris Jordan, known for his environmental photography (including the Midway series (2009) of dead Albatross chicks unwittingly fed plastic by their parents; and the series Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption, (2003 - 2005)) has created a work in response to Paul Hawken's book Blessed Unrest which drew attention to the growing number of... Continue Reading →

Resistance is fertile

The guerilla gardeners in Glasgow need your help.  Working on a completely voluntary basis they are improving the urban landscape site by site.

Make a documentary on our contemporary relationship with nature

The  Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation is proud to announce that The  National  Trust, in collaboration with the NHS Sustainable Development Unit and  supported by Arla, one of the largest dairy companies in Europe, is  looking to  help to fund and distribute a feature documentary film that  examines our contemporary relationship with nature. Apply now

The role of the individual artist working on climate change

Lab for Culture has published a new report focusing on the work of individual artists working on climate change. This Research in focus – produced by Lidia Varbanova in cooperation with prominent artists, experts and professionals – looks at individual and collective artistic practices in Europe and beyond. It also looks at the way we... Continue Reading →

IASH Humanities and Climate Change

The next Humanities and Climate Change group lunchtime talk will be Dr. Emma Dummett (Architecture, University of Edinburgh) and her talk is entitled: "The simple life from the grassroots: down-shifting and the Big Society" Friday, 26 November at 1 o'clock at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh. Contact... Continue Reading →

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