biodiversity
Highlights
2020: The Walk (book)
2020: The Walk is a project by artist and activist Marta Moreno Muñoz, walking from Granada to Helsinki to help spread the word about Extinction Rebellion, a global environmental movement whose stated aim is to use non-violent civil disobedience to compel governments to take action to avoid triggering tipping points in the climate system, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse.
Walking a Line: Encounters through Drawing
Walking a line between riverside and woodland, drawing whilst walking. Pen on paper tracks and traces sounds, movement and the rhythm of walking. A drawing and video made by Ruth Broadbent for 4WCoP ’Heritage and Hiraeth’ 2024.
Walking in the Plantationocene: exploring the impact of colonial legacies on plant-human relations
This sound walk explores plant-human relations through encounters with planty beings on a route of your choice. It reveals the impact of colonial legacies on our relations with plants and proposes new forms of collaboration between plants and people.
Walking Home – Milton Keynes
Walk Listen Create have teamed up with MK Lit Fest and The Parks Trust to bring a collaborative anthology of new writing to listeners in Great Linford manor park and the surrounding area. Earlier in 2022, Walk Listen Create ran a writing competition inviting people to submit poetry and stories of up to 250 words on the theme of “Walking Home”. They
Centre Vale Park Bird Song Walk
Centre Vale park supports 50 bird species year-round, with an interactive walking experience featuring blue circles that play recordings of 18 local bird songs and calls, and blue squares providing narrated identification tips. Photographs of these birds by local photographer Chris Foster are linked to the circles, and new images and sounds continue to be added to this ongoing project.
24 hrs of biodiversity in Adelaide’s south eastern parklands
Local residents Bronwin Patrickson and Matt Zonca guide you through 24 hours of sights, sounds, happenings, mishaps, and serendipitous encounters, all recorded in and around parks 16 (Victoria/Pakapankanthi) and 17 (Carriageway/Tuthangga) in the south eastern corner of Adelaide's parklands.
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Confluence
After a couple of days of late summer temperatures in the high 30s, I was looking forward to my weekend walk with my dog, in ‘walking temperatures’. If I was going to put in an order for a day like this it’d be something in the high teens, with a...
Botanical Encounters
I am really excited to be contributing toBOTANICAL ENCOUNTERSThis project, curated by Dr Christina Horvath, aims to disentangle Bath’s often overlooked colonial legacies by looking at the impact of colonial voyages and conquest, imperial science, botanical and arts collections and the global displacement of plants and humans.The project received funding from the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust to promote encounters in Bath around plants and green sp [...]
Score #20 – Carol
Score #20 by Carol Maurer [score base: a £15 Amazon gift card; photo and score: Carol Maurer (2021); score text: [under the gaze of/amazon./imagine spaces/15/which ‘the human figures’ were like the ‘signs’/amidst the foot traffic/improving the b...
