Changing the visual design mid-way in a video project is quite unusual, but pivoting to a softer animation style with stick figures proved successful for both the client and us.

1. From time to time, we might move, or be moved, from one place to another. When that movement comes to an end – or at least, to a temporary pause – we find ourselves displaced. Before we have any chance of settling, let alone flourishing or thriving in our new environment, it is important […]

My client is not in a hurry. (Antoni Gaudí) I have spent most of the last two weeks in Catalonia, first in Cap de Salou with Iona, then at the Walking Assembly 2026 in Girona and the Pyrenees, and yesterday as a solo tourist in Barcelona. I returned late last night. Today, I have been […]

Last weekend, members of the Environmental Humanities Network PhD Lab exhibited their work at Whitespace Gallery in ‘On Falling Tide: Artistic responses to Cramond Island’. Researchers Alice Eaves, Anna Stacey, Annie Gallagher, Deirdre Macleod, Emma Meehan, Irene Aldazabal and Harriet Crisp collectively produced a multimodal exploration of Cramond Island featuring drawings, maps, poetry, fabric printing, […]

The Democratic Intellect: Scotland and her Universities in the Nineteenth Century George Elder Davie (First edition 1961; third edition 2013, Edinburgh University Press) The Scottish university system differed markedly from the English one. It prioritised broad general education and a strong philosophical foundation: Four-year general degree (usually entered at age 15–16), providing a broad education […]

In June 860, the Carolingian kings Louis the German, Charles the Bald and Lothar II all met at Koblenz on the River Rhine. This ‘summit’ meeting was one of several in late Carolingian Francia, as the kings negotiated their relations with one another. This particular meeting was convened to draw a line under Louis’s unsuccessful […]