This is a diary recording exhibitions I've seen, interesting arts & health projects and my own failures and interesting references to failure. If you want to know the types of work I do please look at the About page here.
This is an excellent discussion using Amitav Ghosh’s 2016 book The Great Derangement. He explores the role of arts and culture with and around the environmental crisis, its entanglements and forms, from an Asian perspective as well as a European one, problematising the dominance of the scientific in the discourse (not questioning science, but questioning... […]
It’s time for reminiscing! And what better topic to think back on than a year’s worth of trashy insights? Here are the top ten posts from Discard Studies in 2020 as determined by our readers! Top 10 Discard Studies articles of 2020
The Nature of Cities’ Forum for Radical Imagination on Environmental Cultures (FRIEC) is calling for proposals. “It is our pleasure to invite your submission for artistic contributions at The Nature of Cities Festival, a global virtual gathering of interdisciplinary thinkers and doers working toward greener cities for nature and all people. We will review su […]
This collection from the Climate Change Policy blog would have been useful when we were writing a Chapter and a Timeline for the new Routledge Companion to Art and the Public Realm. Anne Douglas, Dave Pritchard and I juxtaposed the 50-year ecological practice of the Harrisons (Helen Mayer Harrison 1927-2018) and Newton Harrison (b.1932) with... Continue Read […]
COP26 Coalition’s free online festival will run from Thursday November 12th to Monday November 16th, providing a space for climate justice movements from across the world to come together, strategise, and build power for systemic change. Register here Arts and Culture Highlights From Ceilidhs to Colombian Contemporary Dance, we’ve got a huge variety of excit […]