I write about life, nature and technology. I recently completed The Empathy Hack, my third novel after twenty years of journalism, academic writing, and several nonfiction books. It describes how wildlife webcams feed our longing to get close to nature, and follows what happens when Robin, coming to the end of her professional life and feeling somewhat lost, becomes the victim of a webcam hack which goes viral and triggers a surge of global activism. The story draws on the power of the umwelt – a unique sensory bubble we all inhabit as described in Ed Yong’s bestseller An Immense World, and the compelling pull to empathy between different species. Could empathy save us?
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Porter une marche is a participatory artwork which seeks to connect two strangers through walking, using audio from recorded walks. While activating the artwork outdoors, the walker-wearer experiences ambient sounds of both walks so that the two are united across space and time.
• Sharing the City One Step at a Time | Landscape Architecture Magazine
Activists, wanderers, and tourists find a common language through walking. By Tim Waterman Matthew Beaumont’s beautiful book about London, Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London, begins with a… Source: Sharing the City One Step at a Time | Landscape Architecture Magazine
Along These Lines
‘Along The Lines’ is an immersive mobile soundwalk exploring Brighton’s laundry heritage. Designed and recorded by sound artist and researcher Anna Celeste Edmonds, in collaboration with charity Quiet Down. This project was funded by the Heritage Lottery, and is accessible on Echoes and the artist’s website.
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