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Imagining Natural Scotland
Welcome to the Imagining Natural Scotland website. Please subscribe to receive updates on the project as it develops. Further information about where and when the Information Sessions will be held...
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Thank you to all Imagining Natural Scotland Project Applicants!
After seven information sessions around the country, addressed by a wide range of speakers and attended by over 200 people, more than one hundred proposals have been received for ‘Imagining Natural...
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Successful Applications announced
The Firth of the Clyde – photo: Stephen Hurrel Now that all the applicants have been notified, we are delighted to be able to announce the successful applications to the Imagining Natural...
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Mirror Lands is Go!
Here we are, all set up in our little Mirror Lands office – part of a decommissioned Lighthouse no less – at The University of Aberdeen’s School of Biological Sciences Lighthouse Field Station in...
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Dreaming Scotland
First thoughts…… I am on the train to Edinburgh Waverley from Queen Street, Glasgow, enjoying the views. To me, the Campsie hills look like a geological tidal wave. I try and spot the green towpaths...
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Mirror Lands Artists Talk
Several weeks in to our project, we are holding a public talk at the Lighthouse Field Station in Cromarty to discuss the background to Mirror Lands and how the work - exploring the sounds and...
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Making Space for Water
This project explores the route, uses and character of urban waterways. The Dighty Burn in Dundee and the Denburn in Aberdeen are both part of the history and mythology of their home towns; yet they...
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Making Space for Water ~ postcards
This project has been exploring our experience of urban rivers, and our responses to water in our built landscape - environmental, civic, personal, practical …. The most important creative element has...
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Gallowgellygillburn, Dundee
Saturday 3rd Aug : Exploring the Gelly Burn, one of the tributaries of the Dighty, with Roshni Jose, PhD researcher at Abertay. The Gelly Burn runs through what is now Ardler Village. Where once there...
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The Third Landscape ~ urban rivers
Jo flagged up Gilles Clement, the French gardener / botanist / ecologist and his idea of a “third landscape”. In landscape management, this is a compromise between the engineered and the entirely wild....
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Imagining Natural Scotland Conference – Project Videos now online
The project videos from the Imagining Natural Scotland Conference are now online. http://imaginingnaturalscotland.org.uk/conference/project-videos/
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1. A Critical Forest Art Practice.
Text with a map showing the 35 remaining Caledonian Forest patches in Scotland. Above is a sketch, an image created for an exhibition ‘Eden3: Trees Are the Language of Landscape‘, presented at the Tent...
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2. Critical Forest Practice: Onsite in the Black Wood.
This project evolves through ongoing dialogues with: The Kinloch Rannoch Forest and Trails Consortium Anne Benson, Artist, Chair, Rannoch and Tummel Tourist Association, Loch Rannoch Conservation...
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3. A Critical Forest Art Practice: Future Forest Workshop
The Forest is Moving The Forest is Moving – Tha ‘a Choille Gluasad In the first blog post we wrote about the creative inquiry that lead to initial ideas about a ‘Critical Forest Art Practice.’ In the...
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