City As A Spaceship
City As A Spaceship (CAAS) is a new way of thinking about humans and their relationships with their habitats, transporters and their environment, an intelligent way of designing future cities, such that each city can be composed of small, spaceship like closed-loop eco-systems where most resources the city consumes, are produced locally, in-situ, leveraging the […]
Simon Bor
Simon is a writer, a printmaker and a multi-award-winning producer of children’s animation, including ‘Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids’ and ‘Wolves, Witches & Giants’. His printmaking practice dates back to his time at the Cambridge School of Art, and later, St Martin’s School of Art. He went on to study animation at West Surrey College […]
Heather Mathew
In October 2021, I attended an online presentation “Glacial Narratives” hosted by the Taigh Chearsabhagh Trust, North Uist, about artistic responses to climate change. This inspired me to secure two artist residencies on the Island of Lewis in March and in Iceland in May to further my work on climate change. As a papermaker, I […]
Eilidh McLaughlin, Anne Lopez, Michael Henry
UNFIX is an arts festival based in Scotland programming work concerned with ecological crisis, climate change and hyper-capitalism. UNFIX started in Glasgow (Scotland) in 2015 and now run events there and in New York City (US), Tokyo (Japan) and Bologna (Italy). We conceive of individual human lives as a microcosm of the whole, and puts […]
NAARCA: Open Call for a Podcast Producer
Hannah Brackston
Hannah Brackston is a socially engaged artist based in Glasgow, creating site specific artworks responding to the relationships between people and their environment. Born in Leeds, Hannah studied Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art. She graduated in 2011, receiving the David Harding Public Art prize. Since then Hannah has undertaken a wide range of […]
Anne Waggot Knott
I am a geographer, printmaker, emerging artist, and writer. I maintain a strong focus on the places and spaces where we pause to connect with our environment, and our journeys through it, both physical and metaphorical. Following a deliberate escape from a corporate university career I now use art to provoke questions and conversation. Relief […]
Bonnie Radcliffe
Bonnie Radcliffe is a writer whose work explores storytelling and the sea, women and water, nature, motherhood and folklore. She loves exploring character, especially the seemingly mundane or unappreciated, and uses setting to evoke a strong sense of mood. She would be adrift without stories. While primarily a writer, Bonnie also paints and draws, and […]
Ames Pennington
Ames Pennington makes work that uses humour to connect human experiences and socio-political issues. They use everyday materials and accessible processes to challenge the binaries of ‘high and low art’, often using queer mechanisms such as campness or satire. Ames makes drawings, books, DIY film and improvised performance. Ames has made work within institutions as […]
Kim Simpson
Kim Simpson is an artist and cultural strategist, curator, facilitator and coach bringing a disability-led approach to the arts sector. In recent years, Kim’s work has been focused on strategic projects and the development of people, processes and practices. She is a Clore Leadership Fellow and an ISPA Global Fellow. Kim currently leads the Remembering […]
Digital Archive: A Compendium of Climate Literacies
Lesley Palmer
Lesley Palmer is the is the acting Director and Chief Architect for the Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC), University of Stirling, co-founder of INCH Architecture + Design and the CEO of Iridis Digital Ltd. Lesley is also the Co-Chair of the Scottish Government’s Housing & Dementia Forum, a research member of the Centre for Environments, […]