On 6 September 2024, participants of the Extractivist Landscapes workshops travelled to the Sperrins Mountains in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland to meet and learn with community activists and artists from the Save Our Sperrins (SOS) campaign (https://www.instagram.com/save_our_sperrins/). Our group was warmly welcomed by SOS campaigners Cormac McAleer, Fidelma O’Kane, Marella Fyffe, Jackie Keenan, Anton McCabe,Continue reading “Field Trip – Learning with Save Our Sperrins”
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Workshop 3 — Engaged Theorising and Wish You Were Here
On the 20 June 2024 we held our third Extractivist Landscapes workshop in UCD. In this session, we paired academic Professor Maeve Cooke (School of Philosophy, UCD) and Dublin-based artist Conor Nolan to again analyse the entangled relations between the extractivist processes of mining and how artists and activists work to reimagine the potential futuresContinue reading “Workshop 3 — Engaged Theorising and Wish You Were Here”
Workshop 2— Visualising Climate Modelling and Making Impressions
On the 23 May 2024 we held our second Extractivist Landscapes workshop, again pairing an academic and artist to analyse the entangled relations between the extractivist processes of mining and how artists and activists work to reimagine the potential futures of post-excavated landscapes. The workshop began with an interactive climate science talk by Dr ConorContinue reading “Workshop 2— Visualising Climate Modelling and Making Impressions”
Workshop 1— Creative Public Engagement and Counter-mapping as Resistance
On the 26 February 2024 we held our first Extractivist Landscapes workshop in which we paired an academic and artist to analyse the entangled relations between the extractivist processes of mining and how artists and activists work to reimagine the potential futures of post-excavated landscapes. This workshop began with a presentation by Prof David HigginsContinue reading “Workshop 1— Creative Public Engagement and Counter-mapping as Resistance”
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