Environment & Place Archives

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Our features explore the connection between the arts and social change. We amplify voices too often silenced, commissioning and covering stories from communities at the forefront of sustainable and inclusive development to highlight the creative endeavours bettering our world. Our online archive is free and open to all, showcasing a range of features excerpted from our print publications as well as specially curated digital pieces that further these conversations, highlighting creativity’s role in shaping a positive future for all.

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Dr M. Winter’s Tallinn

Lahemaa National Park // Telliskivi // Iglupark

Making the invisible visible

By combining art with science, Invisible Dust maps new pathways necessary to open up environmental conversations and imagine shared futures – as explained by Founder Alice Sharp

Microuniverse

Focussing on the design and engineering of synthetic biological systems, Tal Danino and Soonhee Moon of the Danino Lab highlight the symbiotic relationships we have to each other and the complex, invisible world of bacteria.

Affective Reformations

“The references listed below constitute a small sampling of texts and thinking that informed the discussion. They are loose, disparate and certainly inexhaustive, but pool a multidisciplinary range of perspectives – making and being from various voices at various scales between the individual and the collective.”

Triston Brewer’s Cape Verde

Tchalé casa Figueira // Mindelo Carnival // Mindelact

Saved by a Deer

In documenting her daily exposure to raw nature, Chiara Zonca’s deeply affective photography explores how creativity supports wellbeing

Smokehouses

Drawing upon the concept of a traditional smokehouse, design practice Izat Arundell share their plans to revisit the structures and build two new forms to offer space for survival and celebration.

Cianalas

Through an exploration of the history of crofting, photographer Antony Sojka champions what’s truly important in life

Jimin Kang’s Oxford

Despite its haughty traditions, it is also a prefigurative place, an incubator for ideas and thoughts that bleed beyond the borders of the small city into the bigger world and the complex discussions of development at play, as some of these places represent.

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Elliott’s

Exploring the cross-section of food and creativity through the lens of Scotland, Jess Dennison and Philippa Henley explore the authenticity, imperfection, cross-disciplinary thinking and debate at play as two sectors collide