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Singing Science
Writing with scientists and songwriters from Devon and beyond in the beautiful surroundings of Dartmoor is a memory with some wonderful contrasts. Balanced against the somewhat negative science messages of how climate change will be detrimental to the nat ...
From Beetles to Bananas
Creative Writing Workshop at Nethercott House, Farms for City Children, Iddesleigh, Devon July 19th 2018
The moorland glowed behind me more yellow than green, dried out, hot. With the Sat Nav ‘recalculating’ I headed downhill between hedgerows along na ...
Shells in Gardens
For a few years now, I have increasingly thought that art could be a powerful medium for science communication, capturing the minds of people who will not absorb the messages of traditional science communication for whatever reason (not interested, not ty ...
Are You Sitting Comfortably?…
Here's a little Climate Story about heatwaves, and the process of scientific inspiration.
Once upon a time, almost exactly 15 years ago in fact, a Climate Scientist went with his wife to a City of Towers in the Duchy of Tuscany, to celebrate their 10th ...
Bringing the Arctic to Exeter
The morning I spent at the RAMM museum in Exeter with a group of writers and scientists was an exhilarating experience. I had chosen a display of exhibits from the Arctic, fascinating artefacts from the peoples who make this frigid world of tundra, sea an ...
If we had to start from scratch, who could find flint and make an axe?
I certainly wouldn’t be able to. I realised this whilst I was looking at a wall of them with Jess Collins in Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum. On the 16th of June, we stood there for five minutes, the timeline of the Earth’s evolution surrounding us, ...
Inspiration at the Speed of Light. And Sound.
I took immediately to the Climate Stories workshop opportunity and worked feverishly on my own proposal to take part, drawing on many tentative brushes I had in my professional life with creative expression of science. As the time of the workshop drew clo ...
Tread Lightly on the Earth – Scientists’ Workshop, Dartington Hall
How do you create something that stands for everything you are trying to say AND acts as a (pardon the pun) banner around which everyone can rally? The answer lies in the very great imaginative talent of Fiona Lovell, our printmaking tutor from Double Ele ...
Adventures in Animation
It's the 3rd May, Day Two of our Climate Stories Scientists' Workshop.
I'm sitting in the magnificent Great Hall of Dartington Hall in Totnes, and I'm looking across to the printmaking tables of our printmaking workshop. 4 rickety trestle tables have b ...
Glistening Jewels
In the last few days there has been plenty of opportunity to reflect on the effects of climate change. More frequent and extreme weather events, melting ice, disruption to normal seasonal patterns of growth.
First we experienced the lowest temperature ...