Too much expert-led decision making has long been shown to deliver perverse outcomes for the environment and society. What if a more earnest collaboration with artists and the arts is the secret ingredient to unlocking a more egalitarian science and society relationship? Independent sculptor, dry stone waller, and landscape partnership innovator Ewan Allinson, discusses the role of the arts in landscape decision making.
Episode Links
- The Hefted to Hill project, as part of the Northern Heartlands Landscape Partnership
- Hill-Farming, Knowledge and Power, Medium article by Ewan Allinson
- Community Empowerment and Landscape Report by Chris Dalglish
- Marcel Duchamp, Fountain 1917
- Valuing Arts and Arts Research
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
- Agnes Denes, Wheatfield, 1982
- Alan Sonfist, Time Landscape, 1965
- John Glover landscape paintings
- Poetry by Wordsworth
- Guide to the Lakes by William Wordsworth
- AALERT 4DM (Arts and Artists and Environmental Research Today for Decision Making Network)
- Art is Not an Island Film, created for AALERT 4DM. Produced by Ewan Allinson and filmed and edited by Maria Rud with oversight by Eirini Saratsi.
- Taigh-Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre North Uist
- Uplands Alliance
- Artist-Scholar David Haley
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