9 June 2023
BY:
Claire Hector
discovering Sandown Bay’s wild and not so wild spaces – through words, pictures, things to do, things to learn, ways to get moving, and all with the help of a shrew, a rock pipit, ivy bees and gulls, a tiny boy and a whole heap of other everyday wildlife.
9 March 2023
BY:
Claire Hector
This March – Upcoming Volunteering Opportunities with Project Seagrass
4 October 2022
BY:
Claire Hector
Exploring the West Wight’s wildlife and landscape as part of the UNESCO Sites Across the Channel programme by reviving Isle of Wight’s Fort Vic Foray…
10 May 2022
BY:
Claire Hector
The Common Space’s Iris Manifesto for Sandown is no ordinary manifesto… now it’s an Iris Garden too!
18 January 2022
BY:
Claire Hector
Seagrass, the underwater wonder-crucial to both the biodiversity and climate crises, is the focus of a new collaboration on the Isle of Wight Biosphere. ARC have been commissioned to support WWF, Project Seagrass and Swansea University’s Seagrass Ocean Rescue
23 August 2021
BY:
Claire Hector
Arc’s recent Place Plan for Cowes, Isle of Wight is coming to life as local organisations team up to revive greenspace and public realm.
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!
8 December 2020
BY:
Claire Hector
Thanks to Bournemouth University and our colleagues Jess Bone and Dr Roger Herbert for this short film showing the Artecology R&D artificial rockpools (or as we call them, Vertipools) at work in Poole Harbour. Artecology‘s rockpools were commissioned as part of the cross-Channel, EU-funded Marineff research project and here you can see Bournemouth Uni’s team
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.
30 July 2020
BY:
Claire Hector
Communities, people, will be unable to cope with the socio-economic and ecosystem shocks of climate change and biodiversity loss, let alone pandemic, when simply getting through the day is made harder by the built environments they inhabit. The need to build living and working places that are truly resilient, healthy and sustainable has never been so clear. The call for a different, better relationship between the human and natural worlds has never been so loud.
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…
18 June 2020
BY:
Claire Hector
Announcing our Specially Commissioned Hullabaloo Artists and Musicians
18 June 2020
BY:
Claire Hector
HULLABALOO… Postponed? Cancelled? NEVER! The Show’s Going On (line!)…! Sandown Bay spectacular Hullabaloo, a grand community celebration of discovery and exploration, fun and wonder is back and changing shape bringing the Bay…and the Isle of Wight Biosphere’s first birthday… straight to your home! Hullabaloo is an outstanding mix of science, nature, art with live music,
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.
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.
20 March 2020
BY:
Claire Hector
Spontaneous urban rewilding this Spring… what wildlife is making the most of the empty spaces outside your window?