24 March 2021
BY:
Claire Hector
Introducing the Wild Glades Festival about the natural world, led by The Glades and Bewonder*, curated by Artecology and Arc. Tune in online this Thursday 25th and Friday 26th March for loads of fantastic content from the Isle of Wight Biosphere’s artists and ecologists and from their partners working on rewilding Bromley and beyond!
24 September 2020
BY:
Claire Hector
From solitary bees to putting biodiversity into South & South East In Bloom, community rewilding is pure gold for people and for wildlife!
4 August 2020
BY:
Claire Hector
The planting of elms and the subsequent return of the White-letter Hairstreak to the heart of a busy town is an urban rewilding success.
27 July 2020
BY:
Claire Hector
From world-class science and back garden safaris, Sea Eagle origami to magic tricks, flag-making, live music, dance school, carrot whistles and clay, animation and much more, Hullabaloo At Home turned Covid-19 adversity into amazements with a festival you can explore for ever more online!
13 July 2020
BY:
Claire Hector
Commissioned by The Common Space and Down to the Coast, this new report and blueprint is the next step in revitalising the first Henry Cotton-designed 1930s golf course, celebrating its layers of natural, cultural and military heritage and year-round appeal, and bringing a new coastal Biosphere Centre to tangible life in the Bay.
18 June 2020
BY:
Claire Hector
Step inside ‘Discovery Bay’ At Hullabaloo at Home on Friday 19th June and the extraordinary diversity and inspiration of science and the spectacular natural world will be rolled out before you…! Contributions to Discovery Bay at Hullabaloo At Home have been piling in from all corners of the UK and the Isle of Wight Biosphere…
22 April 2020
BY:
Ian Boyd
Covid-19 is in truth our fourth modern crisis, exposing and concentrating the three already before us when it struck: public health, biodiversity and climate. It is this quartet of deeply connected and fundamentally ecological stresses that demands systemic change in our recovery. Shaping Better Places is the template we use and our answer to a post-Covid future.
17 April 2020
BY:
Claire Hector
‘If we’re building places that make people ill and we are, what possible hope do we have for a resilient future? By thinking ecologically, we can design places that are healthy for people because they are healthy for wildlife.’ Catch Ian Boyd’s talk on taking an ecological approach to public health and development. Designing Habitat for Humans at Futurebuild 2020 now available on CoLab.
2 April 2020
BY:
Claire Hector
Public Announcement…! Sandown Bay’s grassroots community spectacular is go! Join Arc in the Discovery Bay ‘marquee’ at Hullabaloo At Home where we’ll help you build your own Biosphere and a wild new Roomiverse!
21 March 2020
BY:
Claire Hector
As the cracks appear in the business as usual approach, maybe it’s a chance to revisit the norms.
3 December 2019
BY:
Claire Hector
Our free and homespun celebration of people, place and the festive season is back! Join us all at Sandown Bay’s cliff-top Battery for this year’s The Christmas Garden…
26 September 2019
BY:
Claire Hector
Signs of change! The Willow Walk is a 1km case study of shaping better places! Part-living field study guide, community project, urban rewilding and we believe a good example of how businesses can help to build natural and social capital on their doorstep.
20 September 2019
BY:
Claire Hector
Fridays for Future… Climate crisis and biodiversity loss is finally going global. Whether or not we are personally interested in the environment doesn’t matter, we are ALL in it and part of it and are affected by it. People are nature, simple. Find out about it, make informed decisions and recognise that it’s no longer business as usual.
10 September 2019
BY:
Claire Hector
Our Isle of Wight’s end of summer bring-your-own-bucket celebration of people, place and nature, Under The Pier in Ryde was a packed and happy, species-rich spectacle last week with around 600 visitors on board with dozens of species discovered!
22 August 2019
BY:
Claire Hector
While Artecology are out at sea with Marineff and half of Arc are out on dormice detail, Claire’s been staring at walls…looking at the team’s back catalogue & current work, old public art to Artecology biograffiti and bee walls and how we’re rethinking the concrete tide. Luckily she hit a wall and this blog ends before she got on to our #rewilding work! Walls the Album continues later this summer.
15 August 2019
BY:
Claire Hector
Under the Pier in a Biosphere… where people, wildlife and place come together!
26 July 2019
BY:
Claire Hector
The Isle of Wight has been recognised by UNESCO for its outstanding natural and cultural capital, and its creative ways in helping people and nature thrive together.