Susan Riva La Tzoumaz is in the heart of the 4-Valley ski region in the Swiss Alps. The Swiss Ski School welcomes skiers from around the world, offering ski and snowboard lessons. The ski school also trains young skiers to become ski instructors. This learning organization teaches skiing in the heart of a beautiful Alpine …
Mountainscape: Learning to Ski in the Swiss Alps Read More »
Berit Bareksten, sociologist at HVL, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences Jewellery in memory of beloved ones. My totally black bracelet, a gift from three of my friends – one of them dead already. She wasn’t ready to die from us. She had just moved into her new language of love – Italian. She became …
Dr Alice Charlotte Bell (Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, University of Lincoln) In 2022 the artistic partnership, Fossey+Bell, Dr. Steve Fossey and Dr. Alice Bell; artists, practice-researchers and educators at the University of Lincoln, undertook a research experiment. Methodologically, we used artistic multidisciplinary approaches to immerse ourselves in a landscape undergoing a process of rewilding. As researchers we sought to …
Performing Eco-Recovery: A Trial Run in Our Skins Read More »
Peter Leyland During our discussion about space on the 13th of February, I thought about the metaphysical concept of the microcosm and the macrocosm which features in many of John Donne’s great poems. Here are two verses from two very different poems, The Good Morrow and A Valediction of Weeping, which could be appropriate today. “And now good morrow …