Tim Collins highlighted an interesting and useful critique of the use of GIS to suggest that one can objectively identify Wild Land in Scotland. Check out Fraser Macdonald's blog What’s wrong with the SNH map of ‘core wild land’ | Modern Lives Modern Landscapes | Fraser MacDonald.
Convocation: Colm Cille’s Spiral
Caroline Dear just highlighted the Convocation residency that took place for a short period this summer on Raasay. Bringing together medievalists, artists and curators, the video highlights issues of spirituality and time in very interesting ways. The video below is a good introduction to an exhibition that is just opening at Glasgow School of Art... Continue Reading →
Call for creative practitioners to devise and lead their own creative actions for trees during National Tree Week
We received a request to highlight Treeage from Bridget McKenzie. It's a call for creative practitioners to devise and lead their own creative actions for trees during National Tree Week 23 November to 1 December. Treeage might take the form of three levels of remedial action: A&E, the Funeral or the Maternity Unit. She suggested the... Continue Reading →
Near Now launch Internet of Growing Things Commission
Thanks to James Brady for sharing this, Near Now are delighted to announce the launch of Internet of Growing Things, a collaborative research opportunity for two individual UK based practitioners to develop new work focused on food and future agri-cultures. Deadline Monday 11 November 2013 Near Now launch Internet of Growing Things Commission - Near... Continue Reading →
Deep Routes: research, scale and indigeneity
Reblogging this review of the Compass Collaborator's excellent Deep Routes: MidWest in all Directions
Naomi Klein on indigeneity and the renewal of the public sphere
This interview with Naomi Klein calls out the big green organisations on their compromises and their buy-in to ecosystems assessment and natural capital. She argues that it stems from a fundamentally misplaced viewpoint, What I call the “astronaut’s eye worldview” – which has governed the Big Green environmental movement for so long – and by... Continue Reading →
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