Planning Aid for Scotland

Planning Aid for Scotland is an important organisation providing an impartial service which supports and enables the public to engage with the planning process. Planning Aid for Scotland is: A unique and independent, national charity that helps people to engage in the planning process. The leading voice on community engagement in planning matters, being professional,... Continue Reading →

Uist Eco Film Festival

This collaboration between Sustainable Uist and Taigh Chearsabhagh Arts Centre, Lochmaddy, promises a weekend of challenging and interesting films April 29 - May 1, 2011.  Taigh Chearsabhagh is the excellent gallery, arts centre and cultural hub on the very most western edge of Europe (the outer Hebrides). Recommendations I received recently include Gasland and Home... Continue Reading →

Harrisons’ exhibition and lecture, NY

… ‘Greenhouse Britain’ [by the Harrisons] recapitulates the convergence of the aesthetic and the ethical, best described by Heidegger when he writes, ‘The first step to vigilance is the step back from the thinking that merely represents…to the thinking that responds and recalls.’ (Amanda Boetzkes, The Ethics of Earth Art, 2010) Helen Mayer Harrison and... Continue Reading →

Mainstream ecology in public art

Make a contribution, air your most profound lessons (or the things you rant about). The questions raised by art and ecology, the issues of culture in a time of environmental crisis, don't always impact on mainstream public art practices. The public invitation to contribute to a new series of books, entitled Hints and Tips, is... Continue Reading →

ars bioarctica

Ars Bioarctica is long term art and science initiative by the Finnish Bioart Society. Since 2010 it is organizing an artist-in-residency program together with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki in the sub-Arctic Lapland.  The residency has an emphasis on the Arctic environment and art and science collaboration. It is is open... Continue Reading →

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