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Moving Water: North Sea Edge
No full textDegree Show Catalogue documenting an ESALA MArch (Modular Pathway) studio ‘Moving Water: North Sea Edge’. Studio Leaders: Andrea Faed and Jack Green. 2024-2025.
Radical Harvest: Earth/Care/Reuse, Vol.2
No full textDegree Show Catalogue documenting the first year of a two-year ESALA MArch (Integrated Pathway) studio, ‘Radical Harvest: Earth/Care/Reuse’. Studio Leaders: Simone Ferracina and Asad Khan. 2024-2026
The Isle of Voices: A graphic adaptation and poetry inspired by the work of Robert Louis Stevenson with links to accompanying resources for students and teachers
No full textA graphic adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story, ‘The Isle of Voices’ by Hawaiian artist, Solomon Enos alongside a poem inspired by the story by Samoan poet Caroline Sinavaian Gabbard. The adaptation is the outcome of the AHRC funded research project, Remediating Stevenson: Decolonizing Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific fiction through graphic adaptation, arts education and community engagement. The book contains a wordless graphic adaptation; a summary of the story in modern English; ‘Echolocation’, a poem by Caroline Sinavaiana Gabbard; an illustrated biography of Stevenson and his relationship to the Pacific by Jack Brougham, as well as an outline of, and link to, teaching resources developed by Scotdec for use in Scottish classrooms at Curriculum for Excellence Level 3
D.T.N. Williamson: Edinburgh’s Pioneer of Hi-Fi Sound Reproduction and Flexible Manufacturing
Get PDFD.T.N. Williamson was one of the most creative engineers of the second part of the 20th Century. Yet his early life was full of life-threatening illness, failure, and rejection. He overcame all these setbacks. In his 20s, he designed an amplifier that enabled high-fidelity sound to be obtained from gramophones in vogue at that time, of a quality that was far higher than had ever previously been achieved. He devised a “lightweight” pickup for the gramophone needle. Then, he pioneered the use of computers for machining, enabling components to be made to precision, far higher than was available from conventional methods. In parallel, he developed a novel measurement system that was needed for such components.
On those foundations, he went on to develop an entirely computer-controlled process for batch manufacture, that became known as “SYSTEM 24”.
The Science Research Council appointed Williamson Chairman of its Manufacturing Technology Committee. He fostered the establishment of the “Teaching Company Scheme”, one of the most successful examples of UK industry-university cooperation. He promoted “Grinding Technology” and “Die and Mould” research programmes in which academics in UK universities worked with industrial partners to overcome problems faced by manufacturing industry.
Those achievements were recognised by Williamson being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society; and both Heriot-Watt and Edinburgh Universities awarded him honorary degrees of Doctor of Science.
This book portrays the fascinating life and work of D.T.N. Williamson
BridgING
No full textBridgING is an assemblage of work produced by students from the MA Interior, Architectural & Spatial Design programme at Edinburgh College of Art. This work has been developed through a year-long engagement with Edinburgh’s George IV Bridge, and produced a wide range of creative, critical and imaginative research outcomes and design responses. Through these activities, the student cohort has tested and probed the thresholds and definitions of the interior, to propose original projects that can shape and contribute to the stories of Edinburgh’s rich and vibrant urban context
Edinburgh Historic Walks: A Summary of Hidden Histories
Get PDFEdinburgh Historic Walks: A Summary of Hidden Histories is the result of months of student-staff collaborative research and community engagement. It summarises the histories explored in the funded project Edinburgh Historic Walks, created to challenge the historical neglect of marginalised communities in Edinburgh. Each chapter in the booklet explores a different topic, containing four to five locations along a 30-minute walking route. Each location is directly related to an aspect of marginalised history, involving women, people of colour, LGBTQ+, and other diverse communities.
These self-led walking routes enable the recovery and recognition of lost narratives in Edinburgh’s history, connecting people with the city and joining the dots between untold stories. Included are tales of inequality and injustice, societal change and revolutionary acts – such as the suffragette bombing of the Royal Observatory. Showcasing this heritage is a vital step forward in building a more inclusive historical picture and modern-day society. We hope this book ensures the histories are open, tangible, and accessible to a wide audience, and helps bring some of these pioneering Edinburgh individuals back into the public conscious, and into the history books
I Call It a ‘Garden’, a Place of Seeds: Geoffrey Dutton’s Lessons in Curiosity and Exploration
No full textGeoffrey Dutton (1924–2010) was a distinguished biomolecular scientist who was simultaneously also a poet, mountaineer, wild water swimmer, and the creator, caretaker and chronicler of a Highland garden in Perthshire, Scotland. Dutton saw no conflict between science and poetry, and eight acres of a steep and rugged hillside provided him with an experimental ground to explore this and other complex interrelationships in his search for the new. For fifty years, Dutton maintained what he called a ‘marginal garden’ – a marginal site guided with marginal effort to maximum marginal effect. His lifelong ecological dialogue with the garden was ahead of its time and is today largely forgotten, despite Dutton’s multiple publications in both prose and verse. Amid the garden’s slow transition back into the wild margin, this publication is a celebration – of a special place, a singular body of work and an insatiably curious individual
Heritage in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) and Beyond
Get PDFThis Blue Paper makes the case for putting Ocean Heritage at the heart of ocean science and sustainable development. Often overlooked in ocean governance, Ocean Heritage—both tangible (like shipwrecks) and intangible (like traditional knowledge)—holds vital insights for shaping effective, inclusive, and climate-resilient marine policy. Produced by the Cultural Heritage Framework Programme (CHFP), the only Ocean Decade programme focused on heritage, the paper shows how cultural perspectives strengthen all 10 Ocean Decade Challenges. Drawing on over 20 global initiatives, it offers practical recommendations to embed heritage in science, planning, and policy. At the Decade’s midpoint, this is a bold call to treat culture not as an accessory—but as a right and a requirement for truly sustainable oceans
Mujeres Tz’utujiles: Recetas para la Recuperación en Chuk Muk
No full textThis recipe book emerges from the collective work of the "Recipes for Recovery" project (2023-2025), a transformative feminist and decolonial action-research proposal that is part of the "Ixchel" project. As part of "Recipes for Recovery", we committed to documenting the agri-food traditions within the work of Tz\u27utujil Maya women who make possible the continuation of Maya ways of life in Chuk Muk after a disaster resettlement. Chuk Muk was developed to house people displaced by a landslide that partially buried the community of Panabaj in 2005. In disaster recovery processes, the inclusion of local culture is important to build and rebuild resilience among resettled communities. Rituals, social organisations, and local crops are part of this culture. With this recipe book, we want to share the way women articulate their present and their Tz\u27utujil culture by reappropriating the knowledge of plants and food from their mothers and grandmothers. Through work in their family gardens and kitchens, Tz\u27utujil women have planted the seeds of their own recovery process. These recipes have helped women build important connections between their lives before and their lives now, creating a continuity of Tz\u27utujil ways of life that endures
Daire’s Airc, Vol. 2
No full textDegree Show Catalogue documenting the second year of a two-year ESALA MArch (Integrated Pathway) studio, ‘Daire’s Airc’. Studio Leaders: Iain Scott and Mark Bingham. 2023-2025