The FIRE Lab team continued to work together over the last year to publish research and engagement work we did together and with others in the UK. In this recent article “When unlocking rivers results in building more infrastructure: A group mental model shares lessons from weir remediation in the United Kingdom“, published in Conservation […]
The FIRE lab team and an ensemble of artists/poets/scientists both within and beyond the academy have a new article published in the peer-reviewed journal, Cultural Geographies. The article contributes to work in creative geographies and is focused on river spaces and a multimodal practice (meaning that we used visual, aural, and linguistic forms of communication) […]
In late 2021 and early 2022, Daphne and Stephanie of FIRE Lab designed an interactive exhibition titled Join Us Underwater. The Join Us Underwater exhibition took inspiration, as well as used words and illustrations, from the Underwater Haiku project and took place at Oriel Science in Swansea city centre in April and May 2022. Stephanie […]
New article in The Conversation about fish passes by Stephanie Januchowski-Hartley, Swansea University and Virgilio Hermoso, Universidad de Sevilla Over one million dams and culverts (tunnels that encircle rivers passing under roads) block the movements of fish and other wildlife in Europe. Scientists estimate that less than 1% of catchments in the UK are free […]
Hi, I am Daphne, FIRE Lab’s visual artist. Before you proceed with reading this article, please take some time to look at the image below and pick a colour that relates to how you’re feeling at the moment. I recently joined the Creative Evaluation workshop series led by Jane Willis and organised by Engage, the […]
Join Us Underwater! 9-13, 20-24, 30 April AND 1-2, 7-8, 14-15, 21-22, 28-29 May 2022 @ Oriel Science, 21/22 Castle Street, Swansea, SA1 5AE
Hello again blog readers, this is Daphne. Since April 2020, I have been working and creating along with colleagues and people from around the world on the Underwater Haiku (UWH) project, a collaborative initiative merging poetry, visual arts, and science. If you’d like to read more about UWH project, here‘s a post I wrote about […]
In 2020, as we saw borders closing, our work forced into many of our homes, and distance brought between many of us and our friends, families, and communities, there was also opportunity to find ways to stay connected with other humans and non-humans. One way we at FIRE Lab, along with Asha Sahni, thought to […]
Reflections from the Team: Co-creating visual media about ecological processes for young people has just been published in a special issue of People and Nature. It is the result of a team effort by FIRE Lab, comics creator Ethan Kocak and media production company TankThink to create a comic and music video to engage 8-14 […]
Happy Friday! If you are visiting or live around Swansea, Wales, we have a fun (primarily) outdoor activity for you to join! It’s a QR Code Quest that starts at Square Peg in Sketty, where you’ll visit the hybrid artworks and gather your first clue. The Quest then guides you through Sketty, Uplands, and into […]
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