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Details: By Svenja Meyerricks

The Centre for Human Ecology co-hosted ‘Time for a Basic Income in Scotland?’, a conference and interactive forum which

draws on cutting-edge action research on Basic Income in Europe and elsewhere
discusses key Scottish social and economic challenges and
explores options for introducing a Basic Income to Scotland.

You can watch the recorded the video recording for the talk in our videos section.

Date and Time: Sat 26 November 2016, 10:00 – 15:15 GMT

Location: The Pearce Institute, 840-860 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 3UU

What is a Basic Income? An Unconditional Basic Income would involve regular payments to all residents in a country, enabling them to control the balance between paid and unpaid work in their lives.

Keynote speaker: Guy Standing, co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network, Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies and internationally acclaimed author of groundbreaking books cadana casino on work, security and the economy.

This event is brought to you by the Citizen’s Basic Income Network Scotland, the Centre for Human Ecology, Galgael and Govan Folk University, with kind support from RSA Scotland.

Created: 06 November 2016

Events

Details: By Svenja Meyerricks

Posted by Svenja Meyerricks on Friday, August 19, 2016

Tim Ingold: ‘The Sustainability of Everything’

You can watch the recorded talk in our videos section.

Saturday 10th September, 11am

Fairfield Hall, The Pearce Institute, 840-860 Govan Rd, Glasgow G51 3UU

We are delighted to invite you to our next public talk at CHE this September. Tim Ingold’s work has been very influential in social anthropology and beyond, exploring human-environmental relations, craft and skills. At CHE, he will focus on sustainability and the ‘bigger picture’ through the lens of his work.

“What kind of world has a place for us and for everything else, both now and for future generations? What does it mean for such a world to carry on? How can we make it happen?”

Tim Ingold is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has written on evolutionary theory, human-animal relations, environmental perception and skilled practice. He is currently exploring the interface between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture, and is the author of Lines (2007), Being Alive (2011), Making (2013) and The Life of Lines (2015).

Although there is no set ticket price, we ask for donations towards the room rent and future CHE/GFU events.

Created: 19 August 2016

Events

Details: By Luke Devlin

Liminal community projects for sustainability: where do we go from here? With Svenja Meyerricks
13th April 2016 1800-2000

CHE Library, 2nd Floor, The Pearce Institute, 840-860 Govan Rd, Glasgow G51 3UU (near Govan underground station)

Booking essential: free, or gift what you can. All funds to to our speaker and to support our charitable work.
Book here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2537847

CHE roundtable discussion with Svenja Meyerricks on ‘Liminal community projects for sustainability: where do we go from here?’

What roles do community projects for sustainability and low-carbon living play in the wider political landscape, in Scotland and globally? Svenja explores how through the lens of ritual theory, community projects open up liminal spaces of learning and social transformation on a small scale, and create communitas or social bonding. However, these liminal spaces remain relatively marginal as long as the final stage is missing – an integration of the learned sustainable practices into wider low-carbon infrastructures, and social practices within ecological limits.

This Centre for Human Ecology roundtable discussion begins with a short talk discussing case studies of community projects which Svenja undertook as part of a PhD thesis (available here). Svenja focused in particular on how community projects have been part of the climate change narrative in Scotland through the Scottish Government’s Climate Challenge Fund, and on narratives which have emerged through community action in practice.
The talk will be followed by an in-depth discussion – we invite in particular community practitioners, activists and scholars to explore together barriers, potentials and tools to deepen practices within community projects.

About Svenja:

Dr Svenja Meyerricks received her PhD from the University of St Andrews in 2015 for her thesis titled ‘Community projects as liminal spaces for climate action and sustainability practices in Scotland’. She also holds an MSc in Human Ecology (University of Strathclyde 2008) and an MA in Social Anthropology/ Philosophy (University of Glasgow 2007).
She currently works in Milton Community Garden and Food Hub for North Glasgow Community Food Initiative, and is a Director of the Centre for Human Ecology.

Created: 07 March 2016

Events

Details: By Luke Devlin

In association with Scottish Drug Policy Conversations (SDPC)

The Human Ecology of Drug Use: roundtable hosted by Mike McCarron

Tuesday 19th July 2016 1830-2030

CHE Library, 2nd Floor, The Pearce Institute, 840-860 Govan Rd, Glasgow G51 3UU (near Govan underground station)

Join us for this roundtable where we will discuss drug policy in Scotland, and the wider social, personal, and cultural aspects of drug use. We expect a wide-ranging, frank and stimulating discussion: all are welcome to contribute.

Mike is a CHE Trustee who, as a concerned citizen, advocates critical public discussion about drug use and its impacts. He is co-organiser of Scottish Drug Policy Conversations.

http://scottishjusticematters.com/launch-scottish-drug-policy-conversations/

Mike qualified in social work in 1978 and worked in Glasgow statutory settings addressing offending, alcohol and drug problems, community care services and child protection, community development in disadvantaged areas and supporting the voluntary sector.

A spell as full-time councillor, also active at the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities during the late 1990s, was followed by 10 years involvement in the development and implementation of Scotland’s Drug Strategy.

Created: 14 July 2016

Events

Details: By Luke Devlin

The People in Place : The Placemaker in Us. Integral@Work: A spirited blether about what really matters with Ian Wight
Wednesday 3rd Feb 2016 1800-2000

CHE Library, 2nd Floor, The Pearce Institute, 840-860 Govan Rd, Glasgow G51 3UU (near Govan underground station)

Booking essential: free, or gift what you can. All funds to to our speaker and to support our charitable work.

You are warmly invited to CHE’s first event of the new year, a roundtable blether led by Ian Wight.

OVERVIEW: How might we go about making a place we can all call home? What do we make of place? What rates as place? What’s the story here, the underlying poetry?

We’ll look into what we might mean by place, especially vis-à-vis space, wondering about its sacred and secular attributes, and its combination of primalcy and potency. It will encompass attention to our ‘sense of place’, in terms of sensing place within us – an inter-meshing of ‘outer’ and ‘inner’ sense-making. We’ll prospect what we might regard as the qualities of place, with particular interest in place as an integration of physicality, functionality, conviviality and spirituality. And we’ll speculate on the essence of place as something we make together, as a form of coming home together. What metaphors, or story-lines, or poetry, might resonate as part of our common meaning-making?

About Ian Wight:

Ian, a Canadian Scot, has been – in roughly equal measure, over the past four decades or so – an educator of professional planners, and a professional planning practitioner. He is now exploring his refirement in his native Scotland, kindling his abiding passions, which include an advocacy of planning as placemaking, as wellbeing by design. Ian’s most recent academic credential is a Diploma in Human Ecology, through CHE, in 2009. He loves a really good blether that bridges the personal, the professional and the spiritual – drawing on an integral perspective.

Ian served as the Head of the City Planning program at the University of Manitoba from 2003 to 2008.
He is a long-time member of the Canadian Institute of Planners. He was a founding board member of the Council for Canadian Urbanism and an inaugural member of the Integral Institute.

Created: 28 January 2016