public engagement – Extractivist Landscapes

Field Trip – Learning with Save Our Sperrins

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”

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”