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 →
Environmental Change and Site Based Performance seminar
Notes This was the second in a programme of three workshops. The first was held at Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire. The third will be held in London. Each workshop involves a core group working together and a public event (this was the public event for this workshop and the core group were going on to... 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 →
IASH Humanities and Climate Change lunchtime talks
February-March-April events in the series of Humanities and Climate Change lunchtime talks All at 1pm in the IASH, Hope Park Square Friday 11 February Rachel Howell (Postgraduate, Centre for the Study of Environmental Change and Sustainability) "Lights, camera...action? The impact of the climate change film The Age of Stupid" Monday, 21 February Professor Lorraine Code... 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 →
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