Design won't save the world on its own regardless of the tag line of this weblog, but performing a life differently can make a real difference - 30 years of improvising a forest. Wonderful story.
Screening of ‘The Yes Men Fix the World’ in Ayr 26th April
The Ayrshire Group of World Development Movement is holding a Film Show on Thursday 26th April at 7.30 p.m at the Citadel, when we will be showing the film "The Yes Men Fix the World". Flyer: WDM Film Show 26 April 2012 please distribute
ESRC-Scottish Government/ Forestry Commission Scotland PhD Studentship
Applications are sought from suitably qualified candidates for a joint ESRC-Scottish Government PhD three-year ('+3') studentship. The project entitled 'Designing and Managing Forests for Health' has been developed in collaboration with the Forestry Commission Scotland and seeks to examine the links between forestry and community health across Scotland. The successful candidate will be based in... Continue Reading →
Podcast of Paul Kingsnorth from RANE
Paul Kingsnorth of the Dark Mountain project will be at Carrying the Fire 20-22nd April in Biggar. For those interested, he also recently spoke at RANE in Falmouth and they just put up a podcast. “And so we find ourselves, all of us together, poised trembling on the edge of a change so massive that... Continue Reading →
Funded PhD Opportunities
3 PhD Studentships (Reference IDEAS 12) Grays School of Art, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen IDEAS Research Institute for Innovation, Design And Sustainability Closing Date: 9th April 2012 Applications are invited from excellent candidates for PhD studentships in the IDEAS Research Institute at The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. IDEAS is a multi-disciplinary research centre... Continue Reading →
Illich on Silence
Ivan Illich's address to a conference in Japan addresses the impact of computers, but is really a meditation on commons and resource scarcity.
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