The minor earthquake in Cumbria last week brought fracking to the UK headlines. Fracking is a technology for extracting gas from unconventional geological formations. Very topical in the North Eastern US where there hasn't been a huge oil industry, but where now fracking is being considered as a means to extract gas. The problem is... Continue Reading →
Conflict Resolution on Highland Estates
The Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability is currently hosting four artists' residencies leading up to a major conference on Conservation Conflicts: strategies for coping with a changing world which takes place at the end of August. Dalziel + Scullion are undertaking one of the residencies, and Matthew Dalziel described the project, You might be interested... Continue Reading →
“By Leaves We Live”: the vital politics and poetics of the tree
Jennifer Clarke and Rachel Harkness are convening an excellent session focused on trees, referencing Patrick Geddes' "By Leaves We Live", within the Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth. Abstracts come from all over the world and take trajectories across the topic: religious practice and space; time and trees (both... Continue Reading →
Open source city: Vancouver
Focus on the Zen question: “What can we not do?” Not cut down weeds, not tidy up derelict ground, not plan, organise, manage and control parts of our cities. Asking how an open source ethos might affect urban living. Read the rest of the article in the Vancouver Observer here. Oliver Kellhammer is leading a week-long investigation into... Continue Reading →
FIELD_NOTES – Cultivating Ground
Call for professional collaborators FIELD_NOTES - Cultivating Ground Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Kilpisjärvi/ Lapland/ Finland. 26. September – 2. October 2011 Deadline 30th of June 2011 Organized by the Finnish Bioart Society in the context of the Ars Bioarctica project together with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station. “ Field_Notes – Cultivating Grounds” is a week long... Continue Reading →
Death of ecoactivists
Hi Sacha I write with tragic news to inform you that Maria do Espirito Santo da Silva, arts-educator, eco-pedagogue activist, grandmother and student-participant in our teacher education project Voices of the Land based in the Federal University of Para, was assassinated with her husband Jose da Silva, on the 24th May, near to her forest... Continue Reading →
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