Too much expert-led decision making has long been shown to deliver perverse outcomes for the environment and society. What if a more earnest collaboration with artists and the arts is the secret ingredient to unlocking a more egalitarian science and society relationship? Independent sculptor, dry stone waller, and landscape partnership innovator Ewan Allinson, discusses the role of the arts in landscape decision making.

Episode Links

• The Hefted to Hill project, as part of the Northern Heartlands Landscape Partnership
• Hill-Farming, Knowledge and Power, Medium article by Ewan Allinson
• Community Empowerment and Landscape Report by Chris Dalglish
• Marcel Duchamp, Fountain 1917
• Valuing Arts and Arts Research
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
• Agnes Denes, Wheatfield, 1982
• Alan Sonfist, Time Landscape, 1965
• John Glover landscape paintings
• Poetry by Wordsworth
• Guide to the Lakes by William Wordsworth
• AALERT 4DM (Arts and Artists and Environmental Research Today for Decision Making Network)
• Art is Not an Island Film, created for AALERT 4DM. Produced by Ewan Allinson and filmed and edited by Maria Rud with oversight by Eirini Saratsi.
• Taigh-Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre North Uist
• Uplands Alliance
• Artist-Scholar David Haley