David Borthwick, who runs the University of Glasgow's masters programme Environment, Culture and Communication at the university's Dumfries Campus, reviews Lydia Fulleylove's Estuary, a new book of poems published by the excellent Two Ravens. Estuaries are, as in the title of one of Raymond Carver’s stories, ‘where water comes together with other water,’ fresh into salt,... Continue Reading →
Create & Sustain: Alastair McIntosh at GSA Sustainability
TALK + Seminar - 14 January 2015 15.00-19.00 Reid Auditorium. Booking here Alastair McIntosh is a writer, poet, speaker, researcher and activist. Originally from the Isle of Lewis he now lives on Govan near to the GalGael Trust, for which he is a founding trustee. “ Most of my work is constellated by a passion... Continue Reading →
Funded PhD Opportunity: Performing Geochronology: Deep Time and Sustainable Futures along Scotland’s Western Seaboard
How can creative research investigation into the climatic and tectonic processes operating along Scotland's Western Seaboard can help to nurture and communicate a sense of the 'deep time' involved? This includes the 'slow' temporality associated with glaciations, and the 'quick' events of storms and flooding, but also organic temporalities, from evolution to settlement patterns. Such... Continue Reading →
Anthroposcene Evolution
James Watt didn't start the anthropocene age, nor is he responsible for climate change, but the invention of the Steam Engine is more than a footnote in history. The new online journal at http://www.anthroposcenemanifesto.com (sic) is a platform for research and reflection from social, cultural ecology perspectives. The introduction reads, The Anthroposcene Evolution is a... Continue Reading →
33 dagar/33 Days
”33 Days” - an exhibition by Ingrid Book and Carina Hedén 20.11 2014—15.2 2015 KONSTHALL C , Cigarrvägen 14, 123 57 Farsta, Sweden http://www.konsthallc.se 33 dagar/33 Days is an exhibition by Ingrid Book and Carina Hedén, and an investigation into the life of insects existing in a habitat of Damson trees (Prunus Insititia). The first... Continue Reading →

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