The Power of Just Doing Stuff

Rob Hopkins, one of the founders of the Transition Town movement, is giving the RTPI's Geddes Lecture on Thursday evening this week in Edinburgh.  On the Friday morning (10.00-12.30, 21 June) he's been invited by Transition Scotland, Transition Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh's Sustainability Office to do an open session.  Tickets available here, Rob Hopkins... Continue Reading →

Creative Scotland: Insights & Ideas: Natural Scotland

If you are looking to find out more about artists and the Year of Natural Scotland, check out the Insights & Ideas creative cafe event on 6 June.  Creative Scotland: Insights & Ideas: Natural Scotland. 2013 is the Year of Natural Scotland. Come along to the June Insights Cafe to hear about exciting projects and... Continue Reading →

Carrying the Fire 2013

Dark Mountain "feels like the beginning of the story of the world. Not a world shaped by politicians or by global corporations, but by storytellers and singers who make us feel at home on the earth." Charlotte Du Cann, The Independent 14th-16th June at Wiston Lodge near Biggar, South Lanarkshire An intimate festival of ideas,... Continue Reading →

Second Sight/Site

The landscape as a context for second sight and prophesy. Place-led methodologies of research reveal and inform our understandings of theories and practices. Participants in the Second Sight and Prophesy Conference at the University of Aberdeen 14-16 June 2013 are invited to join a group of artists to explore land use, memory, topography, geology, nemetons, the Goodman’s... Continue Reading →

Beyond the Surface: Environmental Art in Action

This conference (announcement just received) has an outstanding line up of speakers - highly recommended. May 31, 2013 Investigating relationships between art and nature hosted by The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education. This year our art department has been re-envisioning our environmental art program with a group of environmental artists, curators, scientists and academics -... Continue Reading →

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