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Dave Maric is now a member of Making Routes

Jun 24

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Landscaping with Beavers

We have just returned from a wild weekend at the Bamff beaver project in Perthshire. Bamff hosts the longest established population of reintroduced beavers in Scotland and is located amidst the growing population of beavers in the Tay valley. The Ramsay family, who own the estate, are key players in current debates about beaver reintroduction in Scotland. Over three days at Bamff we learned about the beavers and their landscape, and participated in a set of creative experiments in landscaping…See More

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Dec 14, 2018

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Reflections on our latest visit to Knepp

On 14th– 17th September 2018, I returned to Knepp Castle Estate for a third time with Jamie Lorimer, along with three new visitors: Sofie Narbed, Jenny Swingler and Scott Twynholm. On previous trips we had scoped out, explored and experimented with this complicated site; learning to read, interpret and work with the wild processes and inhabitants of the Wildland Project (Overend and Lorimer 2018). This time, we planned to make something: to create a text that tangled together our artistic…See More

Oct 29, 2018

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The Six Wild Ways of the Oak

An audio essay by Jamie Lorimer, Sofie Narbed, David Overend, Jenny Swingler and Scott Twynholm. Written at Knepp Wildland Project in West Sussex.The Six Wild Ways of the Oak is a creative response to the wild ways of Knepp Castle Estate, focussing on the different topologies through which we might conceive of the oak.This project was funded as part of Jamie Lorimer’s British Academy Fellowship at the University of Oxford. Thanks to Penny Green, Tom Forward, Rina Quinlan and all the staff at…See More

Oct 8, 2018

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Sep 25, 2018

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New Article

Jamie Lorimer and I have published an article on our rewilding work at Knepp Castle Estate. 'Wild Performatives: Experiments in Rewilding at the Knepp Wildland Project' is available in GeoHumanities.Many thanks to Professor Baz Kershaw for his generous and constructive comments as we revised the essay, and sincere apologies to Baz for omitting acknowledgement of this contribution.See More

Jul 10, 2018

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Mar 19, 2018

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Retreating: Thinking, Making, Being

Over the past few years I have undertaken numerous creative residential retreats. This prompted me to think about the benefits of these processes for artists, writers, thinkers and performance makers. All images are the author's own from the Performing Wild Geographies event at the Knepp Estate in October 2017.Retreating: Thinking, Making, BeingThe word retreat implicitly has the promise of a “treat” within it, referring to the notion of a treat as "anything that affords pleasure." Treat comes…See More

Jan 25, 2018

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Jan 16, 2018

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Performing Wild Geographies: An ethnographic report

The event: Performing Wild Geographies, a two-day creative workshop, took place at Knepp Castle Estate, West Sussex (2nd-4th October 2017). Focused on collaborative performance-making strategies between artists and academics from disparate disciplines, the event aimed to be a cross-disciplinary experiment around wild(er)ness and rewilding, drawing in particular on the Knepp’s Wildland Project case, in the southern block of the estate.The event was led by Jamie Lorimer (Geography, University of…See More

Jan 15, 2018

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A Creative Document of Performing Wild Geographies, 2nd - 4th October 2017, Knepp Estate

IntroductionPerforming Wild Geographies brought together artists and academics working in the fields of rewilding, human geography, paleoecology, conservation, performance studies, theatre, visual arts and journalism, in order to explore the potential for transdisciplinary collaboration in rewilding. The two day research event took place at a pioneering rewilding project: Knepp Estate in West Sussex. It involved presentations and workshops from leading academics in rewilding and leading…See More

Jan 15, 2018

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London Drift at Meet at 11 Bedford Square, London for an afternoon's walking

March 15, 2018 from 1pm to 6pm

A creative walking workshop in Central London, exploring the sites of astonishing fossil discoveries: from extinct elephants and hippos in Trafalgar Square, to reindeer and bison in South Kensington. We will playfully uncover the vestiges of former Thames terrace deposits, laid down during successive cycles of warm and cold climate, which can still be detected beneath two millennia of urbanization, together with the stone tools of London’s Palaeolithic occupants, the last people to see these…See More

Jan 5, 2018

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Under the Surface of Knepp

Under the Surface of Knepp(This was written as a response to the Performing Wild Geographies event which took place at Knepp Estate on the 2-4th October 2017).An arch of ghostly manta raysEntrance to a wild placePetrified and stackedBleached brown coral reefSignalling death and endPalimpsestsof lasts Although the Knepp Estate is around fifteen miles from…See More

Dec 12, 2017

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