Our Story Weaver, Kaska Hempel, talks to the creative duo behind Art Moves Fife, Gillian McFarland and Kate Downes, about slow movement through landscape as a means to mobilise creative response to climate crisis, creative patience in thinking about solutions and tails wagging dogs.

You can find the audio tour illustrating the essence of the creative process during the first art move at Tayport Heath on izi.travel website or app here.

Credits

Production: Kaska Hempel

Resources

Art Moves Fife website https://www.artmovesfife.org/

Art Move at Tayport Heath - blog https://www.artmovesfife.org/blog/artmove-1b

Art Move at Tayport Heath - audio tour https://izi.travel/en/browse/a20cf047-db75-4f72-93e4-9ab98171d1c0/en

Our Story Weaver, Kaska Hempel, speaks with Marie-Anne Brown, a manager at Magpie in Banchory, about embracing a circular economy lifestyle, balancing social and climate responsibilities, and planning for extreme weather.

This is a final episode in our mini-series on climate driven extreme weather and adaptation in Scotland, marking the first anniversary of the devastating October floods in North East Scotland.

Credits

Production, recording and editing: Kaska Hempel

Resources

Magpie Shops https://www.magpieshops.org.uk/

Circular Communities Scotland https://www.circularcommunities.scot/

Aberdeen Voluntary Action https://www.avashire.org.uk/

Aberdeenshire South Food Bank https://aberdeenshiresouth.foodbank.org.uk/

DeesideCAN https://www.deesidecan.org.uk/

Number One https://www.facebook.com/numberonebanchory

SSEN powering communities to net zero fund includes funding for community-led physical and environmental resilience for communities within their supply network areas https://www.ssen.co.uk/about-ssen/our-communities/powering-communities-to-net-zero-fund/

The Scottish Government’s New Build Heat Standard will now allow wood burning stoves from 1 January 2025, based on rural and island community feedback (amendment on 8 November 2024)

https://www.gov.scot/news/wood-burning-stoves-to-be-permitted-in-new-homes/

SCCAN Adaptation resources

https://sccan.scot/climate-adaptation/

We continue on our theme of climate change fuelled flooding and how we are adapting to it in Scotland. In the last two episodes we touched on responses from creative organisations and farming. Today we focus on future-proofing of newly built public buildings.

In a podcast crossover, we share an episode from CampusCast series at Fife College, which focused on their Dunfermline Learning Campus as a pathfinder project for The Net Zero Public Sector Buildings standard. It’s the only pathfinder project that incorporated adaptation into their work, supported by Scotland’s Public Sector Climate Adaptation Network. The new campus is featured in the newly published Scottish National Adaptation plan as a case study.

CampusCast hosts, Sharrell Carroll and Naomi Wadsworth, are joined by industry expert Jonny Casey (Head of Climate Ready Leadership, Sniffer) to introduce climate adaptation, highlight what they are up to at Fife College and what you can do to get started with climate adaptation.

Credits:

CampusCast: Showcasing Sustainability podcast

Hosts: Sharrell Carroll & Naomi Wadsworth

Creative Director: Sharrell Carroll

Producer, Writer & Editor: Sharrell Carroll

Project Manager: Hayley Williamson

Researchers: Sharrell Carroll, Hayley Williamson & Naomi Wadsworth

Contributors & Advisors: Hayley Williamson & Naomi Wadsworth

Additional contributors: Lucy Jackson, Ethan Moss, and the Fife College community.

Music: Uppbeat

Resources

CampusCast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/110lS6bEVS0JcEIuU6XV1M?si=6b976a1750d74128

CampusCast on Adaptation Scotland website: https://adaptation.scot/our-work/fife-college-podcast-on-climate-adaptation/

Net Zero Standard https://www.netzerostandard.scot/

National Adaptation Plan for Scotland https://adaptation.scot/about/about-the-scottish-governments-national-adaptation-plan-snap3/

Scottish Public Sector Climate Adaptation Network https://adaptation.scot/our-work/public-sector-climate-adaptation-network/

SCCAN Adaptation resource pages https://sccan.scot/climate-adaptation/