Arts and the Environment
Wednesday, 10th October 2007

Chair:  Vanessa Bone (Partner, Creative Cultures)

David Rooke MBE (Head of Flood Risk Management, Environment Agency)
Welcome from CIWEM’s President

Michaela Crimmin (Head of Arts and Ecology, RSA)
Arts and ecology: issues and activities from the RSA and Arts Council England partnership programme

Daro Montag (Artist, Researcher and Lecturer, RANE, University College Falmouth) www.rane.falmouth.ac.uk 
This earth (knowing my place)

David Toop (Musician, Writer, and Curator of Sound)
Beyond the visual: inside and through sound

Peter Randall-Page (Sculptor)
'Seed' - an art and architecture collaboration at the Eden Project, Cornwall

Chair: Peter Harper (Head of Research and Innovation, Centre for Alternative Technology)

Clive Adams (Director, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World)
Nature and I are two: reconnecting people with the planet

Peter Brimblecombe (Environmental Scientist, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia)
Arts in the environmental sciences: an atmosphere in paintings

Tony Beckwith (Creative Development Director, Gunpowder Park)
The landscape of change

Katy Hallett (Arts Director, Sustrans)
Art & the travelling landscape along with the National Cycle Route

Joel Parkes (Project Manager, Free Form)
Making artwork for the environment

Chair: Clive Adams (Director, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World)

Jane Atkinson (Freelance Artist, RANE, University College Falmouth)
Trace elements 4: mapping by water

David Haley (Artist, Research Fellow MA, “Art As Environment” Programme Leader, MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University)
A drop in the ocean: a trace of life

Andrej Zdravic (Independent Film and Sound Artist)
Riverglass – a river ballet in four seasons

Chair: Tom Trevor (Director, Arnolfini Gallery)

Peter Fend (Visual Artist (Architecture), Ocean Earth Development Corporation)
Solutions to global warming, desertification, species loss and urban sprawl: an architectural practice

James Marriott (Co-director, Platform)
Water city - carbon city:  London’s social and ecological impact

Newton Harrison and Helen Mayer Harrison (Principals, Harrison Studio)
Two works in process – greenhouse Britain:   the losing of land, the gaining of wisdom, and Peninsula Europe:   the rising of waters, the warming of land

Arts and the Environment panel discussion
Additional panel members are:
Trudi Entwistle (Site Specific Artist and Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, Leeds Metropolitan University)
Eileen Woods (Artistic Director, Gunpowder Park)
Chris Drury (Artist)
Mark Fletcher (Director, Arup)
Dusty Gedge (Founder, Livingroofs.org)