Category: Reviews
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Waters rising – review
Part of a series of reviews of exhibitions and projects. Waters Rising, Perth Museum (November 2024-March 2025) By Clemence Aycard Perth Museum (Scotland) reopened with a bang in 2024 after years of refurbishment. Its first exhibition, Unicorn, won a Museum Change Lives Award from the Museum Association for its social impact in collaborating with community
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The Green ages
This is a review by Kathy Moore of the book ‘The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability’, by Annette Kehnel. This brilliant book’s aim is a familiar one to us: to imagine a possible future by learning from and re-examining the past. Written in German, published there in 2021, and translated and published in English
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Reviews invited
We are inviting reviews of books and other content such as films, exhibitions or games which are about climate change or environmental issues. We’d love to know what books or media have inspired you to think, feel, talk and take action in response to the climate and ecological emergency. A review could be long or
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Daybreak: playing out possitopian futures
By Kevin Davidson, reblogged from Medium Last weekend I attended the Games Transformed conference to playtest the soon-to-be-released Daybreak, a cooperative game about stopping climatechange. The designers — Matt Leacock and Matteo Menapace — describe the game as “an unapologetically hopeful vision of the near future, where you and your friends get to build a sustainable
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Make Change Happen, the Museums Association Conference 2022
By Dorry Fox The Museums Association’s (MA) conference, held in Edinburgh in November 2022, was an informative and thought-provoking event that focused on the critical role that museums can play in addressing some of the most urgent challenges of today. Structured around the call to Make Change Happen, the programme explored the interconnected issues of
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Ecodramaturgy & Writing for Theatre
Here is a guest post by Matthew Short, whose work and approach sit well with our principles and approaches as a collective of practitioners. We’re happy to host posts about creative practice that engages audiences with climate and ecology themes. Get in touch on climatemuseumuk@gmail.com to enquire about using our platform. Matthew writes… Otter Wolf
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