Combining Social Arts Practice and Biodiversity Conservation
The Sandpit Collective is a collaboration I initiated to create social art projects designed to facilitate community engagement with environmental conservation/resilience issues (both local and global). Its goals include creative workshop design and implementation, research on social arts practice, and
Combining Social Arts Practice and Biodiversity Conservation
The Sandpit Collective is a collaboration I initiated to create social art projects designed to facilitate community engagement with environmental conservation/resilience issues (both local and global). Its goals include creative workshop design and implementation, research on social arts practice, and
Seeing Ecology through Arts Practice
By visualising relationships, using sensory pattern recognition, and ‘drawing to know’, we explore how arts practice can inform scientific questions… whereby observing, sensing, questioning, drawing, & imagining leads to hypothesising… In 2023 I taught this course on Mount Desert Island from
Seeing Ecology through Arts Practice
By visualising relationships, using sensory pattern recognition, and ‘drawing to know’, we explore how arts practice can inform scientific questions… whereby observing, sensing, questioning, drawing, & imagining leads to hypothesising… In 2023 I taught this course on Mount Desert Island from
Cartography of Controversy
For many years now I have taught students a version of the cartography of controversy – a philosophy & methodology of Bruno Latour and Tomasso Venturini. I challenge them to map the components (actors) and interactions of a contemporary science-in-society issue.
Cartography of Controversy
For many years now I have taught students a version of the cartography of controversy – a philosophy & methodology of Bruno Latour and Tomasso Venturini. I challenge them to map the components (actors) and interactions of a contemporary science-in-society issue.
Coastal Heritage, Community Resilience & Social Art
Currently I am working on a project using social arts practice to facilitate local reflection and communication about coastal heritage values and community resilience. With my student Ela Keegan and past student Elle Gilchrist we spent last year researching how
Coastal Heritage, Community Resilience & Social Art
Currently I am working on a project using social arts practice to facilitate local reflection and communication about coastal heritage values and community resilience. With my student Ela Keegan and past student Elle Gilchrist we spent last year researching how
MeetingStream: An experiment in recognising environmental personhood
For several months I visited a small stream near daily – trying different creative ways to consider their agency and animacy, to listen and respond in building a relationship with them. It was also an experiment in sensitising myself to big
MeetingStream: An experiment in recognising environmental personhood
For several months I visited a small stream near daily – trying different creative ways to consider their agency and animacy, to listen and respond in building a relationship with them. It was also an experiment in sensitising myself to big
2º different: ARTiculation of change
We are ‘far too mammalian’ to really understand the effect of a 2˚ increase in environmental temperature. We don’t innately ‘get it’, and thus are incapable of empathy with the vast majority of organisms on this planet that are ectotherms
2º different: ARTiculation of change
We are ‘far too mammalian’ to really understand the effect of a 2˚ increase in environmental temperature. We don’t innately ‘get it’, and thus are incapable of empathy with the vast majority of organisms on this planet that are ectotherms
A Sea View
The ocean connects all … that was long our paradigm of marine connectivity (particularly if you have a planktonic stage). The paradigm of high marine connectivity led us to misunderstandings in population biology and marine ecology, and long excused overfishing, marine
A Sea View
The ocean connects all … that was long our paradigm of marine connectivity (particularly if you have a planktonic stage). The paradigm of high marine connectivity led us to misunderstandings in population biology and marine ecology, and long excused overfishing, marine
Aesthetics & Science : Identity & Composition.
We live in a gene-focused society, still fixated on singular deterministic rationales. Whether it is what ‘classifies’ someone as indigenous to a place or what the key elements are that determine a species or a local product… components are often
Aesthetics & Science : Identity & Composition.
We live in a gene-focused society, still fixated on singular deterministic rationales. Whether it is what ‘classifies’ someone as indigenous to a place or what the key elements are that determine a species or a local product… components are often
Thinking across Dichotomy
An odd conundrum… the fact that I love diversity. In every sensory aspect: historically, culturally, environmentally etc. Scientifically it is also what I find most relevant to understanding biology (rather than searching for common laws, I always studied the
Thinking across Dichotomy
An odd conundrum… the fact that I love diversity. In every sensory aspect: historically, culturally, environmentally etc. Scientifically it is also what I find most relevant to understanding biology (rather than searching for common laws, I always studied the
Science & Art
See Current projects (and Scission– a blog site deliberating a science-art ‘boundary’) 3 recent publications on integrating art & science (but see full pubs list): Rock, J . and L. Taylor. 2019. Social Arts Practice and Conservation Management: New modes of community
Science & Art
See Current projects (and Scission– a blog site deliberating a science-art ‘boundary’) 3 recent publications on integrating art & science (but see full pubs list): Rock, J . and L. Taylor. 2019. Social Arts Practice and Conservation Management: New modes of community
Climate Change & Ocean Health
For many years, my biological research on the effect of ocean warming focused on development and dispersal in Antarctic fish. Impacts of Southern Ocean warming on marine connectivity: Integrating oceanographic modelling with molecular ecology and developmental biology was a major project I designed collaboratively
Climate Change & Ocean Health
For many years, my biological research on the effect of ocean warming focused on development and dispersal in Antarctic fish. Impacts of Southern Ocean warming on marine connectivity: Integrating oceanographic modelling with molecular ecology and developmental biology was a major project I designed collaboratively
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