Artecology co-founders Ian Boyd and Nigel George provide a creative talk via Zoom on the Island’s recent UNESCO Biosphere Reserve status and discuss their collaborative and community arts work with UK based carnival company, Shademakers.
Artecology is the ecoengineering R&D department of Arc Biodiversity & Climate - an innovative UK ‘environmental impact’ company based on the IW in Sandown. They work with industry and research partners to create bioreceptive construction and landscape designs for marine, freshwater and land-based development. Artecology shapes green life-cycle solutions from new build, to retrofit and repair, from city to sea.
They are a world-class, cross-discipline collaboration of ecologists, artists, scientists, engineers and architects developing constructed wildlife habitats within the built environment. In addition to their R&D work they have product sales, work on commissioned projects, give unparalleled ecological consultative advice and deliver training and talks.
Links
Some useful links mentioned in the Zoom session:
- Artecology website
- UNESCO site for Biosphere's
- Kathy Grogan, 'Learning Wild'
- The Grammar of Ornament
- Common Ground
- Shademakers UK
- Hullabaloo
Books suggested by IW Creative Network member Kay McCrann:
- 'Common Worlds of Children and Animals: Relational Ethics for Entangled Lives' by Affrica Taylor and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, (2020) Routledge
- And 'Multispecies Ethnography: Methodology of a Holistic research Approach of Humans, Animals, Nature and Culture' by Katharina Ameli, (2022) Lexington
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