Welcome to the Sandown Bay Story Quests from The Common Space

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.

Wild Glades… Bromley’s first Biodiversity Festival goes online

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!

Building for Biodiversity update… Artecology’s artificial rockpools for Marineff project

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

Cities & Health, Covid-19 Issue – Redesigning Habitat for Humans by Ian Boyd

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.

HULLABALOO NEWSFLASH: DISCOVERY BAY JUST GOT BIGGER!

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…

HULLABALOO AT HOME…

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,

Coronavirus – Arc Biodiversity & Climate’s Response

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.

Hullabaloo… At Home!

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!

In the pink…

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.

Spring in Strange Times

20 March 2020
BY:
Claire Hector

Spontaneous urban rewilding this Spring… what wildlife is making the most of the empty spaces outside your window?