DEEP PEAT: People, Ecology, Art and Terrain: Starting a Collaboration - Conference 17.11.21

Conference Schedule 
10.30   Registration and refreshments 
10:45   Zoom opens
11.00   Welcome and overview (Sophie Mahon, in-situ) 
                                           
11.10   Taking you into Scotland to a bog in Dumfries and Galloway:
A conversation between artist, Kate Foster and peat restoration ecologist, Emily Taylor.  
Anna Basley: peatland restoration ,  Jayne Muddoch: engaging communities, Kate Foster: art. peat and collaborating
 
Missed this the main body of this,  overview as I was on another call and will have to catch up at a later date. 

12.10   Comfort Beak
12.20   Pendle Hill Peat with Kerry Morrison & Sarah Robinson in dialogue

Lottery Funded Pendle Landscape Partnership - Peat restoration on the summit of Pendle, small top , but it is a piece of peat really close to people. 

Pendle Hill - Iconic landscape - birthplace of quaker hill, witch trials, aliens - doctor - lots of bio-diversity from upland peat lands.  3% of globe but 30% of carbon. UK more carbon that all forests of Europe combined carbon storage. 
Carbon Store recent - used to be bio-diversity for restoration - funding then impacts of climate cahnge - flooding and then the driver - nature based solutions for intensity - 3rd driver through water quality and climate. 
Peat restoration is multi dimensional.
​Pendle Hill 2010 

11.10   Taking you into Scotland to a bog in Dumfries and Galloway:
A conversation between artist, Kate Foster and peat restoration ecologist, Emily Taylor.  
Anna Basley: peatland restoration ,  Jayne Muddoch: engaging communities, Kate Foster: art. peat and collaborating
 
Missed this the main body of this,  overview as I was on another call and will have to catch up at a later date. 

Spaghnum Spat as a communal effort : Bog Splotters - 

- some memorials, Peat Graffiti, Some of the stones and peat was used as canvas so project set up to educate the public, alongside the gully and land management. 

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Project encouraged people to come and revegetate some parts of the hill. Working.

Collaboration brings uncertainty and unexpected outcomes - Activism doesn't necessary need to be loud. Collaboration with audience can be very much decided by the audience itself. Also innovative ways to develop action. or respond to the new information. Multi disciplinary practice can impact to causes that really matter. New collaborations. 

Lorna Smithers - Insitu, the yes on Model. to open up collaborations.  

Interesting seminar, some good points made in the am session but a lot of repetition from the previous web event. What stuck out to me around collaborations was the fact that outcomes for public collaboration is a little unknown, cant be planned but intention being wider because you are when dealing with public dealing with a set of individuals with a wider set of construct. 

Further research ideas: -
https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/resources-for-educators/classroom-resources/articles-and-how-tos/articles/educators/working-together-teaching-collaboration-in-the-arts/
Collaborative learning in the Arts 


https://www.a-n.co.uk/blogs/the-art-of-collaboration-an-analysis-seminar/
The Art of Collaboration: An Analysis (Seminar)