Sustainability Spotlight, August 2020 - Guddling About
Prof Minty Donald and artist Nick Millar’s research project Guddling About uses participatory ‘micro-performances’ to explore interrelations between humans and water. The Guddling About micro-performances encourage people to interact with water in personal, sensory and poetic ways, and to increase their understanding of how water behaves, how it is managed, how it feels, and how it makes them feel. Enhanced awareness of water at a local level can help address water-related environmental issues such as flooding, scarcity, and pollution.
The practice-research methods developed in Guddling About were also applied in the Green-Blue-Grey Campus project, which was funded by the University of Glasgow’s Chancellor’s Fund. This project brought together arts and science researchers and University Estates to investigate the potential for green-blue infrastructure on Campus. It focussed on a design feature of the new campus development: a rain garden which functions as a sustainable drainage system.
Find out more about Minty's research on the School of Culture and Creative Arts Performance Ecology Heritage website.
Photo from the Performance Ecology Heritage website, used with permission.