RCCGlasgow
Pop-up Exhibition
Monday 1 - Friday 12 November
The New Glasgow Society – 1307 Argyle Street
Ever wondered why it is so hard to make the clear science on climate change into social change? Only a fraction of the money given to climate science each year makes it to people working in social sciences and humanities, but their work is critical to fighting climate change and transforming society. In partnership with the world-leading Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society, this exhibition profiles groundbreaking work on climate and society from around the world.
The event is a 12 day long public exhibition featuring films, experts from academia and civic society, and artistic engagements with climate change. The main exhibition consists of writing and images from over twenty different researchers around the world engaging with climate change in the humanities and social sciences.
The exhibition will include the unveiling of the new documentary Adaption, produced by Dr Dominic Hinde and Alex Blott, with the support of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a conversation by authors Cal Flyn and David Farrier on their engagements with climate change and the traces left behind by human societies.
Highlights include:
2 November – Launch of the short documentary project Adaption by Dominic Hinde and Alex Blott.
3 November – COP opening panel with the academic and writer Samantha Walton, Social Anthropologist Naveeda Khan and Creative Carbon Scotland’s Lewis Coenen Rowe.
5 November – Panel discussion on media’s role in fighting climate change with the School’s Dr Catherine Happer and professionals from world of media.
6-10 Professor Graeme MacDonald and colleagues from the international Climaginaries project present the installation Museum of the Future, looking at how we will remember the present. The exhibition deals with themes such as saying goodbye to meat, and the rising tide in Glasgow.
6 November – Launch of a special COP edition of Scottish Culture Magazine The Drouth. At the launch of this special collection of essays, reportage and visual engagements with climate contributors will speak about their work and the public will have a chance to preview the issue.
12 November Writer Cal Flyn, other of the hugely successful Islands of Abandonment and Edinburgh University’s Professor of Environment and Literature David Farrier, author of Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, discuss their work in light of the COP. This event is staged in partnership with the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.