Pleased to say we have a chapter in a new book, expertly edited by @miranda-matthews.bsky.social - Ecologies in Practice: Arts Interventions in the Earth Crisis - about our work in #Dharavi on #Compound13Lab - available open access: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... Please order for libraries etc!

Life balancing on a morning walk. Apparently standing on one leg is good for the constitution, so these geese have got that. #balance

What are genes and chromosomes? The depth of eyes, the strength of bones, a glint of hair, a breadth of smile, patterns stretching mile on mile, to give our thoughts and beings homes. 24.11.14 #smallpoem

Sometimes when words keep to themselves, I like to wrap them up as well, in something warm or else just light, and so we’re drawn together right. 17.11.14 #smallpoem

A lovely lake to imagine leaping, at Victoria Park today

Being at one would mean No more feeling in-between A sense of presence in the now Of course with time to wonder how And somewhere calm to rest a while, Before the next day sends a trial Feeling at one would mean Jumping a lake, clearing it clean. 5.11.14

Treading water to stay afloat, Wondering why I have no note Of bass or pitch to keep me level In the ways I used to revel, But now I feel the need to settle Somewhere I can test my mettle And see the pieces slot together For my happiness with whatever. 29.9.14

*Ecology in the Art Curriculum*: Centre for Art & Ecology & Centre for Arts & Learning Goldsmiths are collaborating with the British Ecological Society on 29.9.25 for an exciting day of workshops and activities for Art Teachers. Registration is on this link. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ecology-in...

England to Scotland, Have us Scots please! Without you we’d crumble and fall to our knees, losing the glory of hills, glens and lochs, of fiery hair and fleeting fox, a depth of culture so ancient and strong, and passionate people we’ve loved so long, keep us please, to brave our high seas. 18.9.14

I love my child, can’t say how much, but more than pages piled, up to the sun and such, and past the Milky Way, before the light of any day, started to reach us here, before stars twinkled and appeared, more than skies need to wrap the world, and more than my life unfurled. (17.09.14)

So do you believe in Piaget or Lev? Vygotsky, Vygotsky, I like what he gotsky, Piaget in stages has been out for ages, Vygotsky the jet ski, ZPD, CPD (9.09.14) #tonocriticalacclaim

Mummy why are you on the phone? I’m having my dinner, leave it alone! Or better still give it to me, I know how to use it as well you see, I can make the pictures wobble with crosses And send nice messages to all your bosses, I can call all the people you never call, Believe me I can have a ball.

It annoys me so much that X deactivated my account, with the poetry on it that I wrote as a new mum in 2014-15, to no critical acclaim, so I’m going to post some of them. This has cropped up because I was ‘commissioned’ to write a poem for my brother’s wedding this month.

Michael Rosen’s guide to having a happier day: listen to music, get a good night’s sleep ... and add raisins to ice-cream

If you are in Birmingham on 10 June, you could view the films made in our ODAF project ‘Theatre for Climate Justice Education in Bangladesh’ - being presented at Soul City Arts by TheatrEX Director Sudip Chakroborthy. #climatejustice #drama #Bangladesh

Centre for Arts and Learning invites you to, ‘(Un)Knowing the (Un)Known & The sphinx of the work to-be-made’, a seminar with Juuso Tervo & Dennis Atkinson. This is a free online event, 17.30-19.00 (BST), 18 June 2025. #arteducation #artpractice #pedagogy www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unknowing-...

Centre for Arts and Learning warmly invites you to, ‘Making’ Sense – Embodied Experiences in the Art Museum and Alternative Ways of Knowing, Kimberley Foster and Lisa Newby. 14 May, 5.30-7. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-sen...

A good morning and blossoming possibilities

Excellent talk yesterday!

Thank you to everyone who joined us and contributed to today’s rich and thought-provoking seminar, Beyond Representationalism, presented by Professor Jan Derry at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Creative Conversations with Emeritus Professor Dennis Atkinson 7 May, please join us, all welcome! @bathspauni.bsky.social https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/cccibathspa/t-xmnmlol

You’re invited to ‘Theatre for Embodied Critical Consciousness’ 26.3.25 @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social with Sudip Chakroborthy, Ummey Hanee & Ahammad Raufur Rahim of TheatrEX @britishcouncil.bsky.social Also Amanda Kipling will present her research. #drama #theatre #dramaeducation #ecology #climate

New life in the park. Sometimes called ‘the people’s park’, being peopled by lots of other than humans.

Spring sprung!

Centre for Arts and Learning invites you to ‘Known & Unknown’: Theatre for Embodied Critical Consciousness  26.3.25. You are invited to a roundtable with Dr Sudip Chakroborthy,TheatrEX Bangladesh & Dr Amanda Kipling. #theatre #Drama #dramaeducation #Bangladesh www.eventbrite.com/e/cal-known-...

Big cats… where do they spring from? Answers on a postcard please

'Children and young people are being asked by the government to give their views on what matters to them. For those aged 10-21 years old, and up to 25 years old for those with special educational needs and disabilities. SURVEY LINK: ➡️ www.iwill.org.uk/NYS-Deliver-... www.bbc.com/newsround/ar...

Centre for Arts and Learning warmly invites you to a seminar and workshop - ‘Known and Unknown’: Frank Bowling’s Birthday with the Frank Bowling Studio, 26.02.25 5.30-7pm, at Goldsmiths University of London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/known-and-...

This is beautiful 🦋 @erinmanning1.bsky.social https://3ecologies.org/

‘Spanish Dance’, watercolour on recycled paper. Made while listening to Dante practice the piece of the same name by Tchaikovsky, for a piano concert today

Colleagues in the Faculty of Education at the University of Seville are organising this conference. There is time to send abstracts until January 26. Seville is an interesting place to visit. congresodepedagogia.com

Skating ducks and coots

Miniature icebergs in the park today

‘… and to those North Sea waves whispering sunken stories’ by Sammy Baloji at Goldsmiths CCA. A geode-like terrarium for tropical plants, having an aspect of wondering where they’re being transported to. Baloji refers to extractivism of natural resources and Belgian colonialism of the Congo region.

The wonderful Quantocks in Somerset on a clear day.

It’s rare to see a second when children aren’t playing with the amazing ‘Quantum Jungle: Festive Edition’, designed by Robin Baumgarten for Young V&A. It’s inspired by cats playing with doorstop springs. Will always see my door spring differently after this.

Thankful today to women creating exciting food. Listening to Grace Dent on Women’s Hour Radio 4. This year’s cake is from a recipe by Meera Sodha, and we also made these caramels designed by Benjamina Ebuehi in @theguardian.com

Here’s to caring, magical times in all our winter celebrations ✨✨🌟✨✨🌟✨✨🌟✨✨

The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity

Such a treat to go to Ecstatic Dance London, where there’s free movement, no talking till the ‘fruit social’ and just water and cacao to drink. Then yoga this morning. All good for the mind-body-environment.

Lots of school visits to observe PGCE Art and Design students currently. Here is an ingenious thing for holding tubes of paint, at Norbury High School. I really like the squeezy materiality of it. #arteducation

‘News Items’ created by the MA Arts and Learning students ltoday #artspractice #practiceresearch

A Gingko tree near the London Buddhist centre. Apparently good for memory, so also good to remember it before the leaves fell.

Calling univ profs & lecturers! If you want to bring concepts from Doughnut Economics into your teaching, we've just launched a webpage bursting with resources for you: 7 slide decks, reading lists, videos & activities - all open access. Dive in & pls reshare! doughnuteconomics.org/university-c...

Blue skies recently in Somerset. Not so today, gales, leaves flying and wishes for the trees to stay up.

We had a Climate Researchers event at work this week (Goldsmiths). It was really good to meet people in Art, Design, Law, History of Economics, Management Studies… all with different areas of research. Sociable climate networking in the times of #COP29 is good for hope.

In 2021-22 I developed an Ecologies in Practice research programme with speakers such as @bridgetmck.bsky.social. Then in 2022-23 I worked with CMUK and practice researchers to explore how arts methods can address eco-anxieties for young people. Here’s our project website. www.ecoartslearning.net

Cop29: ‘We’re here for life and death reasons,’ says ex-climate minister of Pakistan

Accurate description of where we are at. #Cop29

Reading Calvino’s Complete Cosmicomics currently. It’s posthumanism pre-posthumanism. Mostly wonderful.