Relearning with Animals

Intro

Brief introduction paragraph and funding info

Workshops

Future Fables: 3-4 August 2024, Edinburgh

This series of creative writing workshops, part of the "Re-Learning to Live with Animals" project, invited participants to share stories about their encounters with the Water of Leith's wildlife. We shared stories about our encounters with animals along the Water of Leith. We collectively imagined what stories people would tell about living alongside the river's many denizens in a climate-changed and re-wilded future. After a short stroll along the river to gather inspiration, we wrote "future fables" together to think about how the Water of Leith might have transformed over the years, and how it might have changed our own lives and the animals we lived with.

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Who are we

Cameo Marlatt is a poet and independent creative researcher with an interest in zoopoetics, lyric nonfiction, and arts-based participatory research.

Guillem Rubio-Ramon is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh’s School of GeoSciences. His research integrates more-than-human geographies and political ecologies to study the reciprocal influence of animals and humans on each other’s socio-cultural, economic and political lives.

Shawn Bodden is a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh in the School of Social and Political Science. His research focuses on community experiences of environmental change, with a particular interest in multispecies interaction.

Contact

You can get in touch by contacting us at e-mail

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