Find information about the project’s events by following the links below.
Forthcoming Events
‘Gaining Ground: Bomb Rubble, Reclamation and Revenance’
School of Art Research Forum
29 January 2024, 4.15– 6pm (Hunter Lecture Theatre, ECA)
This talk introduces research I have been working on that looks at how places used to dump bomb rubble after the Second World War have taken on new uses and valuations as habitats, places of creativity, heritage and as sites of memory and forgetting. Here I discuss some of the research methods I have employed for this including interviews with local photographers and my own speculative recreation and repositioning of a bombed-out house. A summary of this was recently published in Journal of Contemporary Archaeology and in The Conversation.
Past Events
Talk for Edinburgh World Heritage: ‘The Spoils of Progress: Edinburgh’s peripheral waste landscapes’ [watch recording here]
12 October 2023
EWH website
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University of Sheffield invited talk: The Archaeology of Waste Landscapes
(23 March 2023, 4.20 pm)
SHA 2023 (Lisbon) Presentation: Reimagining the West Lothian oil shale industry
(6 January 2023, 1.30pm)
TAG 43 (University of Edinburgh) Conference Session:
Absence: perspectives from archaeology and heritage
(15- 17 December 2022)
Conference Session at Society for American Archaeology’ Meeting: Making Ground: the Archaeology of Waste Landscapes
(31 March 2022)
Reimagining Waste Landscapes seminar series (February – March 2022)