Ecology
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5 walks, 5 trees, 5 poems
A project that began in 2024 with a number of walks deepening our relationship with the natural world through mindful walking, drawing, poetry and conversation with time spent in the […]
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Flowering Porty
As part of this year’s Art Walk Porty Festival, in celebration of our tenth year, we are creating a front gardens festival inviting local people to create and grow flourishing, […]
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Craigmillar & Communities Walking Residency
‘Walking is about freeing us from our fixity to a standpoint so that we can be more responsive to others and to places in their development.’ (Norman Wirzba) Jonathan Baxter […]
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Granton Eastern Breakwater Lichen Project
This project focusses around the abundant community of marine lichen species at Granton’s Eastern Breakwater, with the creation of a new walking route from Granton Hub and a lichen guide […]
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ecollaborate
Over nine weeks participants from Access to Industry (PAGE 2 Group – Photographic Arts Group Empowerment) took part in a series of photo walks collecting plant materials to experiment with […]
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Crude Floral
Dense with wildflowers, insects, pedestrians and people on bikes who use Seafield for foraging, dog walking, commuting, swimming, running and more, the area has been overlooked for development until recently […]
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Quota
Bottom towed fishing vessels are highly destructive to underwater ecologies including living seabed ecosystems which take millennia to form. Physically disruptive of the seafloor and indiscriminately collecting everything in their […]
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Repel and attract
Inspired by the unexpected presence of tomato seedlings thriving in the water treatment plant at Seafield, Tonya McMullan is currently developing connections between waste, water, ecology and scent. This work […]
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PERIPHERI: tending to corners
During winter through to summer 2021-22, artists Elise Ashby and Stephanie Whitelaw designed and delivered a series of monthly art walks, exploring peripheral sites on the edge of Portobello. The […]
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Walking in the Footsteps of Time
Parade and Circular Walk as part of the Craigmillar & Niddrie Festival 2023
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Plot 55b
Felicity Bristow and Susie Wilson first began their residency in 2019 working the land from their garden shed at Plot 55b at Craigentinny Telferton Allotments. However due to the lockdown […]