Cathy FITZGERALD
University of Galway, Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Research fellow 2017
New Zealander Dr Cathy Fitzgerald, living in Ireland, the home of her Irish ancestors, is the founder of the independent Haumea Ecoversity at https://haumeaecoversity.com
Her developing ecopedagogy on ecoliteracy and values-based transformative learning, with reference to developments in ESD and the Earth Charter activate agency for creative and cultural professionals for wise, compassionate and beautiful creativity.
Consultant, speaker, advisor and mentor Cathy's work rests on an earlier career in research science and a childhood passion for the arts and wild forested places.
Her ongoing ecological (ecosocial) art practice to transform a conifer plantation toward ecological forestry in 'The Hollywood Forest Story' (begun in 2008), was the basis of her arguments to offer a clear and accessible Guattari ecosophy-action research framework to more easily explain the transformative learning in embedded in ecological art practice for her Creative-led PhD: The Ecological Turn: Living Well with Forests ...).
She brings this framework to advise creative direction for the Drummin Bog community restoration Project, in South County Carlow, Ireland. In doing so, she explores and shares new ideas of creative ecological practice for ecosocial wellbeing to other creative professionals, local authority art professionals, the community and online audiences.
Concluding in her doctoral thesis in 2016, Cathy realised that art education, siloed from environmental understanding and limited resources, would not be able to assist creative learners how to address the ecological emergency in the short decade timeframe the world scientists have given.
In 2018, with the support of the Carlow Local Enterprise Board and Art Office, Cathy developed a unique online Haumea Ecoliteracy programme for creative professionals. Her and her collaborator philosophy educator Dr Nikos Patedakis (California) courses on 'Essential Ecoliteracy', 'Ecosensual Philosophy' and 'Embracing the Earth Charter' are attracting mid-career, postgraduate and experienced art professionals, from across the world.
See https://haumea.ie
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Creative Practice-led PhD title -- The Ecological Turn: Living Well with Forests to Articulate Eco-Social Art Practice using a Guattari ecosophy action research framework (2018).
Supervisors: Dr Paul O'Brien, National College of Art & Design, Ireland (retired)
Dr Iain Biggs, Bath Univ., UK. Environmental Humanities Fellow
Prof. Jessica Hemmings, Former Head of Visual Culture, National College of Art & Design, Ireland
Internal examiner: Prof. Siún Hanrahan, Head of Academic Affairs, National College of Art & Design, Ireland
External examiner: Prof. Richard Povall, Dartington College, Devon, UK.
Cathy was nominated by Prof Richard Povall, to the international EcoArt network during her PhD viva.
Supervisors: Dr. Iain Biggs, Dr. Paul O'Brien, and Prof. Jessica Hemmings
Phone: +353872857129
Address: RAHEEN CROSS
KILLEDMOND
Her developing ecopedagogy on ecoliteracy and values-based transformative learning, with reference to developments in ESD and the Earth Charter activate agency for creative and cultural professionals for wise, compassionate and beautiful creativity.
Consultant, speaker, advisor and mentor Cathy's work rests on an earlier career in research science and a childhood passion for the arts and wild forested places.
Her ongoing ecological (ecosocial) art practice to transform a conifer plantation toward ecological forestry in 'The Hollywood Forest Story' (begun in 2008), was the basis of her arguments to offer a clear and accessible Guattari ecosophy-action research framework to more easily explain the transformative learning in embedded in ecological art practice for her Creative-led PhD: The Ecological Turn: Living Well with Forests ...).
She brings this framework to advise creative direction for the Drummin Bog community restoration Project, in South County Carlow, Ireland. In doing so, she explores and shares new ideas of creative ecological practice for ecosocial wellbeing to other creative professionals, local authority art professionals, the community and online audiences.
Concluding in her doctoral thesis in 2016, Cathy realised that art education, siloed from environmental understanding and limited resources, would not be able to assist creative learners how to address the ecological emergency in the short decade timeframe the world scientists have given.
In 2018, with the support of the Carlow Local Enterprise Board and Art Office, Cathy developed a unique online Haumea Ecoliteracy programme for creative professionals. Her and her collaborator philosophy educator Dr Nikos Patedakis (California) courses on 'Essential Ecoliteracy', 'Ecosensual Philosophy' and 'Embracing the Earth Charter' are attracting mid-career, postgraduate and experienced art professionals, from across the world.
See https://haumea.ie
_______________________
Creative Practice-led PhD title -- The Ecological Turn: Living Well with Forests to Articulate Eco-Social Art Practice using a Guattari ecosophy action research framework (2018).
Supervisors: Dr Paul O'Brien, National College of Art & Design, Ireland (retired)
Dr Iain Biggs, Bath Univ., UK. Environmental Humanities Fellow
Prof. Jessica Hemmings, Former Head of Visual Culture, National College of Art & Design, Ireland
Internal examiner: Prof. Siún Hanrahan, Head of Academic Affairs, National College of Art & Design, Ireland
External examiner: Prof. Richard Povall, Dartington College, Devon, UK.
Cathy was nominated by Prof Richard Povall, to the international EcoArt network during her PhD viva.
Supervisors: Dr. Iain Biggs, Dr. Paul O'Brien, and Prof. Jessica Hemmings
Phone: +353872857129
Address: RAHEEN CROSS
KILLEDMOND
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ECOLITERACY ECOPEDAGOGY VALUES 4 CREATIVE PRACTICE by Cathy FITZGERALD
This article delves into the intersections between emerging ecological art practices and values-based transformative learning for sustainability education.
Cathy Fitzgerald, an Earth Charter educator
who has been leading non-formal education
programmes on ecoliteracy and the Earth
Charter in Ireland, shares her experience and
insights in bringing ecological art practice into
education for sustainable development
programmes.
Changing how Art is taught since 2016.
Founder Director Dr Cathy Fitzgerald with Co-Director Dr Nikos Patedakis
The renowned meditator and artist Chogyam Trumpa is believed to have once said:
“To change the world, you have to change the culture; to change the culture you have to change society;
to change society you have to change the art;
to do that, you have to change how art is taught’
A recent art and sustainability study report for County Carlow and Ireland by Cathy Fitzgerald (Fitzgerald, 2017) highlights comprehensive cultural research, policy and strategies that are being implemented in Britain to foster the cultural sector to engage with issues of sustainability. This presentation reviews the report, which includes a discussion of the reasons why we in the cultural sector must act urgently, and demonstrates the diverse ways creative practitioners can engage with complex scientific issues. The study highlighted strategies from developed national art and sustainability programmes in England and Scotland, which include: assisting national and local cultural institutes to adopt energy audits so they become public champions of sustainability-learning for their visitors and audiences, and which also reduce running costs and make carbon savings ; curating events to educate cultural practitioners in sustainability science; and developing strategies that enable closer partnership between art and science and improved ecoliteracy for the sector.
some interesting developments occurring
between contemporary visual art reveal
current ideas of how society relates to
nature. And following recent trends in the
UK, Ireland too is creating a dialogue
between the art and science communities...
Ecological art practice The Hollywood Forest Story by Cathy FITZGERALD
Fitzgerald,2019a, b). Albrecht argues that with a shift to the Symbiocene era, society prioritises functioning symbiotic ecosystems over erroneous economic growth-at-all costs indices that permit the ecocidal atrocities of the Anthropocene. In this chapter, I present The Hollywood Forest Story and new-to-Ireland continuous cover forestry practices, which I have explored
and adopted to transform the small monoculture conifer tree plantation in which I live in rural South East Ireland, into a thriving, mixed species, permanent forest (Woodworth, 2020).
Exploring Close-to-Nature continuous cover forestry within an ecosocial practice becomes an act of symbiotic placemaking in creating 2.5 acres of biodiverse landscape that benefits more-than-human flourishing.
The Hollywood Forest Story, begun in 2008, is a live and ongoing ecosocial art placemaking practice. I introduce the Guattarian ecosophy and action research theory method framework that explains durational ecosocial art practice (Fitzgerald, 2018a, b).
Blogging my multi-constituent ecoso cial art practice significantly helps my collaborators, my community, and myself develop ecoliteracy to assess this more ecological forestry as a critical alternative to dominant extractive monoculture industrial forestry that is inherently ecocidal in the long term (Fitzgerald, 2018a, pp. 110-14). Therefore, I use extracts from my blog 'The Holywood Forest Story' (www.hollywoodforest.com) and the action research part of the ecosocial art practice framework to detail the key stages of symbiotic placemaking.
The chapter aims to explain the Earth-aligned values of an ecosocial art practice - for its contribution to symbiotic placemaking- to community development professionals, art educators, creative practitioners, and cultural policymakers.
Earth Writings: Bogs, Fields, Forests, Gardens (2020) received the Geographical Society of Ireland Book of the Year Award at the 53rd annual Conference of Irish Geographers held in Limerick in May 2022. The book, which focuses on community-engaged arts and geography practices in Ireland, was supported by the Maynooth University Department of Geography Research Incentive Fund, Kildare County Council, and Creative Ireland. Edited by Karen E. Till Professor of Cultural Geography at Maynooth University, the volume was designed by Pure Designs and features writings by artists, curators, and academics: Patrick Bresnihan, Nessa Cronin, Monica de Bath, Cathy Fitzgerald, Gerry Kearns, Pauline O’Connell, Seoidín O’Sullivan, Lucina Russell, and Karen Till. The award was in the edited collection category and decided by an international awards committee.
The criteria for consideration were that the works: had been published for the first time (in Irish or English) between 1st January 2018 and 31st December 2021; were of clear relevance to a theme related to the geographies of Ireland and/or were authored by a geographer employed in Ireland at the time of publication; and were comprised substantially of previously unpublished work. Books are available for purchase at the Temple Bar Arts Book store Dublin https://shop.templebargallery.com/collections/books-publications/products/karen-till-earth-writings-bogs-forests-fields-gardens or online at https://haumea.ie
Dr Cathy Fitzgerald was interviewed by Dr Nessa Cronin, Irish Studies, NUIG about her ongoing ecological art practice: The Hollywood Forest Story, begun 2008 - " the little wood that could". See the Earth Writings podcasts page for a conversation between Cathy and Nessa.
See more about the evolving Irish Earthwritings.ie programme in association with Cork University Press at https://earthwritings.ie
Update:
In 2022-3, Dr Cathy Fitzgerald is providing ecoliteracy training via her Haumea Ecoversity https://haumea.ie for a 3-county Irish Arts Council Invitation Award, led by County Carlow Arts Services, for Carlow, Kildare and Meath. Gnáthóga Nádúrtha (Natural Habitats) is an arts-led community engagement programme centred on wetland restoration https://drumminbog.com/2022/02/07/3047/ Cathy will again work with Earth Writings collaborators Monica de Bath and Lucina Russell.
This article appeared in Minding Nature, Vol. 12. No. 3 (Fall 2019), a publication of the Center for Humans and Nature (www.humansandnature.org).
The proposed framework builds on my ongoing Hollywood Forest Story eco-social art practice, ecological knowledge and actions, and critical review of a suitable theory and methodology. From 2008, this includes transforming Hollywood forest, the monoculture conifer plantation where I live in rural South County Carlow in Ireland, into a permanent forest.
This thesis is framed by critical reflection on and is an extension of new mappings of the emergent art and ecology field. Suzi Gablik (2004), Sacha Kagan (2011), David Haley (2011a; 2016), Linda Weintraub (2012) and others chiefly view transdisciplinarity as best describing long-term art practices that aim for a deeper understanding of sustainability in emergent eco-social contexts. While transdisciplinarity is evident in such practices, I propose a hybrid theoretical- methodological framework to fully articulate the overarching purpose and common methodology of transversal eco-social art practices.
I apply Félix Guattari’s theoretical concept of ecosophy, which articulates transversality, with an action research methodological approach. I thus define eco-social art practices as working creatively in an ecosophical-action research mode to develop ecoliteracy and agency for their practitioners, collaborators and audiences. Such practices encompass emergent transversal endeavours directed by innovative, yet recognisable pattern of social enquiry. My research draws attention to recent advances in understanding the value of artful activities in action research for sustainability from Chris Seeley and Peter Reason (Seeley, 2011b; Seeley and Reason, 2008) and the usefulness, and under- explored potential of online social media to support the connected learning and sharing of eco-social art practice. The significance, challenges and transferability the eco-social art practice framework advances are characterised and evaluated in application to my practice and the exemplary eco-social art practice of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison. From these studies, I conclude that the eco-social art practice framework has potential to advance understanding that transversal practices are as critical as scientific, economic and political responses to advance a life-sustaining, ecological turn.
Keywords: art and ecology, eco-social art practice, Guattari, transversality, ecosophy, action research, ecoliteracy, agency, blogging, continuous cover forestry, social art practice
The text and audio-visual material in this eBook reflects the central creative practice of blogging for this eco-social practice, from my blog www.hollywoodforest.com. My blog follows the ongoing (since 2008) transformation of a monoculture tree plantation into a permanent, mixed species forest following new-to-Ireland Close-to-Nature continuous cover forestry practices.
*****
Alternatively, a copy of the eBook is available as a print-on-demand book http://www.blurb.com/b/9056929-the-hollywood-forest-story
or as PDF http://www.blurb.com/b/9056929-the-hollywood-forest-story
Note: if reading the print or PDF version, the videos from the eBook can be seen on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/album/1668287
See the accompanying written PhD thesis at https://ncad.academia.edu/CathyFitzgerald
This creative PhD by Practice was undertaken at The National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland.
My research analyses diverse practices, including my own, which involve the ongoing (since 2008) transformation of a conifer plantation in rural Ireland, into a permanent forest. While art and ecology practices may appear dissimilar, my work determines broad commonalities in aims and method approaches. Consequently, my research proposes a guiding theory and a clear methodology to describe the common drivers and methods found in these multi-constituent practices. The eco-social art practice theory-method framework I developed employs Guattari’s ecosophy and action research.
I also explore the value of social media to advance ecosophic refrains by accelerated ‘connected learning’. I highlight how blogging has been my primary art research and creative practice method. I present a summary journey of the framework applied to my eco-social art practice through an interactive audio-visual ebook format.
Overall, I argue the theory-method eco-social art practice framework empowers practitioners’ articulation of these important value-creating endeavours. Importantly, it increases understanding of the art and ecology field as an innovator of practice particularly suited to respond to 21st- century eco-social concerns.
See more at www.hollywoodforest.com
Her research analyses these apparently diverse practices, including her own, which involves the transformation of a conifer plantation into a permanent forest, video workings, blogging and national 'Close-to-Nature' continuous cover forest policy development in Ireland.
Cathy's research highlights an absence of a guiding theory and a clear methodology to describe the common drivers and methods found in these practices. In response, she develops a theory-method framework to characterise these commonalities, using Guattari's ecosophy, particularly his concept of transversality and action research. She also explores the value of social media to advance accelerated 'connected learning'; blogging has been a primary art research and creative practice method, and she presents her theory-method framework applied to her eco-social art practice through an interactive audio-visual ebook format.
Cathy argues the eco-social art practice framework empowers practitioners' articulation of these important value-creating endeavours and increases understanding of the art and ecology field as an innovator of practice particularly suited to respond to 21st-century eco-social concerns. To view the summary and accompanying video 'Reversing Silent Spring' that shows highlights from this 8-year and ongoing project see www.hollywoodforest.com
This article delves into the intersections between emerging ecological art practices and values-based transformative learning for sustainability education.
Cathy Fitzgerald, an Earth Charter educator
who has been leading non-formal education
programmes on ecoliteracy and the Earth
Charter in Ireland, shares her experience and
insights in bringing ecological art practice into
education for sustainable development
programmes.
Changing how Art is taught since 2016.
Founder Director Dr Cathy Fitzgerald with Co-Director Dr Nikos Patedakis
The renowned meditator and artist Chogyam Trumpa is believed to have once said:
“To change the world, you have to change the culture; to change the culture you have to change society;
to change society you have to change the art;
to do that, you have to change how art is taught’
A recent art and sustainability study report for County Carlow and Ireland by Cathy Fitzgerald (Fitzgerald, 2017) highlights comprehensive cultural research, policy and strategies that are being implemented in Britain to foster the cultural sector to engage with issues of sustainability. This presentation reviews the report, which includes a discussion of the reasons why we in the cultural sector must act urgently, and demonstrates the diverse ways creative practitioners can engage with complex scientific issues. The study highlighted strategies from developed national art and sustainability programmes in England and Scotland, which include: assisting national and local cultural institutes to adopt energy audits so they become public champions of sustainability-learning for their visitors and audiences, and which also reduce running costs and make carbon savings ; curating events to educate cultural practitioners in sustainability science; and developing strategies that enable closer partnership between art and science and improved ecoliteracy for the sector.
some interesting developments occurring
between contemporary visual art reveal
current ideas of how society relates to
nature. And following recent trends in the
UK, Ireland too is creating a dialogue
between the art and science communities...
Fitzgerald,2019a, b). Albrecht argues that with a shift to the Symbiocene era, society prioritises functioning symbiotic ecosystems over erroneous economic growth-at-all costs indices that permit the ecocidal atrocities of the Anthropocene. In this chapter, I present The Hollywood Forest Story and new-to-Ireland continuous cover forestry practices, which I have explored
and adopted to transform the small monoculture conifer tree plantation in which I live in rural South East Ireland, into a thriving, mixed species, permanent forest (Woodworth, 2020).
Exploring Close-to-Nature continuous cover forestry within an ecosocial practice becomes an act of symbiotic placemaking in creating 2.5 acres of biodiverse landscape that benefits more-than-human flourishing.
The Hollywood Forest Story, begun in 2008, is a live and ongoing ecosocial art placemaking practice. I introduce the Guattarian ecosophy and action research theory method framework that explains durational ecosocial art practice (Fitzgerald, 2018a, b).
Blogging my multi-constituent ecoso cial art practice significantly helps my collaborators, my community, and myself develop ecoliteracy to assess this more ecological forestry as a critical alternative to dominant extractive monoculture industrial forestry that is inherently ecocidal in the long term (Fitzgerald, 2018a, pp. 110-14). Therefore, I use extracts from my blog 'The Holywood Forest Story' (www.hollywoodforest.com) and the action research part of the ecosocial art practice framework to detail the key stages of symbiotic placemaking.
The chapter aims to explain the Earth-aligned values of an ecosocial art practice - for its contribution to symbiotic placemaking- to community development professionals, art educators, creative practitioners, and cultural policymakers.
Earth Writings: Bogs, Fields, Forests, Gardens (2020) received the Geographical Society of Ireland Book of the Year Award at the 53rd annual Conference of Irish Geographers held in Limerick in May 2022. The book, which focuses on community-engaged arts and geography practices in Ireland, was supported by the Maynooth University Department of Geography Research Incentive Fund, Kildare County Council, and Creative Ireland. Edited by Karen E. Till Professor of Cultural Geography at Maynooth University, the volume was designed by Pure Designs and features writings by artists, curators, and academics: Patrick Bresnihan, Nessa Cronin, Monica de Bath, Cathy Fitzgerald, Gerry Kearns, Pauline O’Connell, Seoidín O’Sullivan, Lucina Russell, and Karen Till. The award was in the edited collection category and decided by an international awards committee.
The criteria for consideration were that the works: had been published for the first time (in Irish or English) between 1st January 2018 and 31st December 2021; were of clear relevance to a theme related to the geographies of Ireland and/or were authored by a geographer employed in Ireland at the time of publication; and were comprised substantially of previously unpublished work. Books are available for purchase at the Temple Bar Arts Book store Dublin https://shop.templebargallery.com/collections/books-publications/products/karen-till-earth-writings-bogs-forests-fields-gardens or online at https://haumea.ie
Dr Cathy Fitzgerald was interviewed by Dr Nessa Cronin, Irish Studies, NUIG about her ongoing ecological art practice: The Hollywood Forest Story, begun 2008 - " the little wood that could". See the Earth Writings podcasts page for a conversation between Cathy and Nessa.
See more about the evolving Irish Earthwritings.ie programme in association with Cork University Press at https://earthwritings.ie
Update:
In 2022-3, Dr Cathy Fitzgerald is providing ecoliteracy training via her Haumea Ecoversity https://haumea.ie for a 3-county Irish Arts Council Invitation Award, led by County Carlow Arts Services, for Carlow, Kildare and Meath. Gnáthóga Nádúrtha (Natural Habitats) is an arts-led community engagement programme centred on wetland restoration https://drumminbog.com/2022/02/07/3047/ Cathy will again work with Earth Writings collaborators Monica de Bath and Lucina Russell.
This article appeared in Minding Nature, Vol. 12. No. 3 (Fall 2019), a publication of the Center for Humans and Nature (www.humansandnature.org).
The proposed framework builds on my ongoing Hollywood Forest Story eco-social art practice, ecological knowledge and actions, and critical review of a suitable theory and methodology. From 2008, this includes transforming Hollywood forest, the monoculture conifer plantation where I live in rural South County Carlow in Ireland, into a permanent forest.
This thesis is framed by critical reflection on and is an extension of new mappings of the emergent art and ecology field. Suzi Gablik (2004), Sacha Kagan (2011), David Haley (2011a; 2016), Linda Weintraub (2012) and others chiefly view transdisciplinarity as best describing long-term art practices that aim for a deeper understanding of sustainability in emergent eco-social contexts. While transdisciplinarity is evident in such practices, I propose a hybrid theoretical- methodological framework to fully articulate the overarching purpose and common methodology of transversal eco-social art practices.
I apply Félix Guattari’s theoretical concept of ecosophy, which articulates transversality, with an action research methodological approach. I thus define eco-social art practices as working creatively in an ecosophical-action research mode to develop ecoliteracy and agency for their practitioners, collaborators and audiences. Such practices encompass emergent transversal endeavours directed by innovative, yet recognisable pattern of social enquiry. My research draws attention to recent advances in understanding the value of artful activities in action research for sustainability from Chris Seeley and Peter Reason (Seeley, 2011b; Seeley and Reason, 2008) and the usefulness, and under- explored potential of online social media to support the connected learning and sharing of eco-social art practice. The significance, challenges and transferability the eco-social art practice framework advances are characterised and evaluated in application to my practice and the exemplary eco-social art practice of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison. From these studies, I conclude that the eco-social art practice framework has potential to advance understanding that transversal practices are as critical as scientific, economic and political responses to advance a life-sustaining, ecological turn.
Keywords: art and ecology, eco-social art practice, Guattari, transversality, ecosophy, action research, ecoliteracy, agency, blogging, continuous cover forestry, social art practice
The text and audio-visual material in this eBook reflects the central creative practice of blogging for this eco-social practice, from my blog www.hollywoodforest.com. My blog follows the ongoing (since 2008) transformation of a monoculture tree plantation into a permanent, mixed species forest following new-to-Ireland Close-to-Nature continuous cover forestry practices.
*****
Alternatively, a copy of the eBook is available as a print-on-demand book http://www.blurb.com/b/9056929-the-hollywood-forest-story
or as PDF http://www.blurb.com/b/9056929-the-hollywood-forest-story
Note: if reading the print or PDF version, the videos from the eBook can be seen on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/album/1668287
See the accompanying written PhD thesis at https://ncad.academia.edu/CathyFitzgerald
This creative PhD by Practice was undertaken at The National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland.
My research analyses diverse practices, including my own, which involve the ongoing (since 2008) transformation of a conifer plantation in rural Ireland, into a permanent forest. While art and ecology practices may appear dissimilar, my work determines broad commonalities in aims and method approaches. Consequently, my research proposes a guiding theory and a clear methodology to describe the common drivers and methods found in these multi-constituent practices. The eco-social art practice theory-method framework I developed employs Guattari’s ecosophy and action research.
I also explore the value of social media to advance ecosophic refrains by accelerated ‘connected learning’. I highlight how blogging has been my primary art research and creative practice method. I present a summary journey of the framework applied to my eco-social art practice through an interactive audio-visual ebook format.
Overall, I argue the theory-method eco-social art practice framework empowers practitioners’ articulation of these important value-creating endeavours. Importantly, it increases understanding of the art and ecology field as an innovator of practice particularly suited to respond to 21st- century eco-social concerns.
See more at www.hollywoodforest.com
Her research analyses these apparently diverse practices, including her own, which involves the transformation of a conifer plantation into a permanent forest, video workings, blogging and national 'Close-to-Nature' continuous cover forest policy development in Ireland.
Cathy's research highlights an absence of a guiding theory and a clear methodology to describe the common drivers and methods found in these practices. In response, she develops a theory-method framework to characterise these commonalities, using Guattari's ecosophy, particularly his concept of transversality and action research. She also explores the value of social media to advance accelerated 'connected learning'; blogging has been a primary art research and creative practice method, and she presents her theory-method framework applied to her eco-social art practice through an interactive audio-visual ebook format.
Cathy argues the eco-social art practice framework empowers practitioners' articulation of these important value-creating endeavours and increases understanding of the art and ecology field as an innovator of practice particularly suited to respond to 21st-century eco-social concerns. To view the summary and accompanying video 'Reversing Silent Spring' that shows highlights from this 8-year and ongoing project see www.hollywoodforest.com
The ultimate work of art, is to create ourselves anew. Practising the 'art of living' may well be the most vital and challenging work of our time.
enormous influence cinema, and particularly our hugely popular forms of “nature cinema” have, on how well we perceive
and relate to the earth and its inhabitants. and
its inhabitants.
Chapter 19. Fast Slow: Prefabricated architecture, DIY earth building, personal and planetary well-being
SARAH BREEN LOVETT, CATHY FITZGERALD, HARRISON GARDNER, DUNCAN MAXWELL, NIKOS PATEDAKIS, CATHY SMITH AND LUCY WEIR