Exploring Hrisey through its sonic landscape.

Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, the first director of Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, narrates an audio tour reflecting on his scientific legacy and the environmental consequences of his actions, such as introducing blackberries. The tour integrates Mueller’s writings and imagined responses, encouraging listeners to reconsider colonial scientific impacts and future ecological stewardship.

This post describes a Virtual Reality exploration of the industrial history of the Lower Lea Valley and Olympic Park, focusing on environmental and social impacts. Walk 3, led by Dr Jim Clifford, Ralph Ward, and Atif Ghani, follows the Bow Back Rivers from Bow flyover to City Mill Lock, highlighting the rivers' role in industrial access and Britain’s imperial growth through quinine manufacture.

This Virtual Reality exploration examines the industrial history of the Lower Lea Valley and Olympic Park, focusing on environmental impacts and living conditions shaped by industrial development. Walk 4, led by Dr Jim Clifford, Ralph Ward, and Atif Ghani, traces the route from Stratford High Street to Three Mills via the Channelsea River, highlighting its transformation from rural landscape to an industrial and environmental site affected by pollution and sewage until 2017.

With a bird in a cage on my back I walked 90 km from the center of São Paulo to the Atlantic coast.