A radical holistic edge-fusion learning space with a collection of really useful collaborative tools for making social-ecological just change.
A radical holistic edge-fusion learning space with a collection of really useful collaborative tools for making social-ecological just change.
Workshops
HEdge Space
A Holistic Do-it-Together Tool kit.
Praxis tools to support people bring about just change, together
Workshops
Climate Camp Art Zine Workshop Weekend
Date: October 2022
Location: North West Clare Family Resource Centre, Ennistymon, Co. Clare
Duration: 2 Days
Zine Team:
Co-Researcher: EC: Workshop Participant, zine content co-design and co-production
Lead Researcher: GH: Workshop brief design, Infrastructure, and documentation.
EM: Workshop Facilitator: Workshop co-design, zine content co-design and zine co-production
Purpose:
To bring the creative reflections produced at the climate camp community lino print workshops together in a sharable publication. The art-zine is a community cultural artefact, a learning publication, and a means of solidarity building and a call to action for future climate camps and other actions. The zine distributes counter-cultural representations and counter-knowledges from the movement, to the movement and beyond, the movement.
Workshop Method: Zine making, mixed media
2 Day Weekend Workshop Outline:
Day 1:
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Meet and Greet, Tea and Trees grounding & connection exercise
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Hot dog book: Short zine making exercise
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Zine history and design
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Reflection on zine purpose and content
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Lunch
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Exploring the linoprint art from climate camp and other source material from the camp, such as photos, artwork
from other climate camp workshops and text reflections. -
Creating zine pages from the source material
Day 2:
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Meet and Greet,
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Working on zine pages
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Lunch
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Organising the zine page order and staple together.
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Zine and climate camp final reflection.
The purpose of this workshop was to gather the reflective creative material produced at climate camp into a zine to share with the community, beyond the community, and as a call to action for future camps
The handmade quality of zines creates a personal connection between the makers and the people who get the zine
What is a zine?
A zine is a small, self-published, non-commercial booklet that usually has original or appropriated texts and images on a particular subject. Zines are often reproduced via photocopier and bound in DIY ways, such as folding and stapling and disregards the traditional conventions of professional design and publishing houses, proposing an alternative, confident, and self-aware contribution.
Historically, zines have provided community for socially isolated individuals or groups by enabling the expression and pursuit of common ideas and purpose. They give marginalised or counter-culture groups an opportunity to voice their perspectives, knowledge and activities with other members of their own communities or with a larger audience. Zines therefore have community, cultural, and historic value as tangible traces of the voice and activities of marginal communities, many of which may otherwise be little-documented.
We got started with Tea and Trees for grounding
Tree huggers in Ennistymon, Co. Clare
Exploring the historical and political world of zines, and zine making design details
Looking at a range of zines from different social movement contexts using EMs zine collection
Hot Dog: Mini zine making activity
Making Tools
Zine development:
Content requirements, audience/user. content, aesthetic
The Zine Ripple Effect
This issue is created in solidarity with the ‘Love our Lough’ campaign, and 10% of profits will be donated to Save our Sperrins’.
Both collectives work to cherish, celebrate and protect these vast elders for present and future generations.
This is a concrete example of how a cultural artefact and educational publication can travel through the public domain and show up in unexpected places. Pages from the zine were printed in Airmids Journal as a call to action for camp 2024, this was particularly resonant as a call to action was part of the zines purpose, as well as community building. Was interesting to discover it in the journal, being so fundamental to its origins!
I discovered this at a Journal launch and workshop I attended at common knowledge on 24/2/24. As a result, I then gave out 40 zines at the launches evening event. A really useful question was asked many times: When is the next camp on?
Solidarity, alliance building, cultural representation and education exchange occurring 2 years after the zine was made. This is really useful.
This is helpful in trying to establish the usefulness/impact of the interventionist Hedge space workshops in addition to co-researcher feedbacks and other public feedbacks
The Shannon LNG terminal in Co. Kerry was denied planning permission
Planning board refuses permission for €650m Shannon LNG terminal – The Irish Times
it is a positive development that, between the time of conducting community consultations and the publication of this report, An Bord Pleanála has decided to reject the planning application for a €650 million LNG terminal proposed for the Shannon Estuary (Fair Clare, 2023, p. 118)
However, consent has since been granted for the developers to appeal the decision
High Court permits Shannon LNG to challenge refusal of €650m Co Kerry gas terminal – The Irish Times
Climate Camp and this zine contribute to the sustainable development goals by campaigning against the development of a new fossil fuels LNG terminal in Co. Kerry which is contrary to sustainable development.
Co-Researcher Praxis Journey Trail
HEdge Space at Climate Camp and Zine Questionnaire
Public Responses
All 6 questionnaire responses can be found here in the JotForm link with table of responses https://eu.jotform.com/tables/223306127289355
This form reads by scrolling right to left
Resources
Climate Camp Zine. Ireland 2022 - Issuu
How to Make a Zine: A Guide to Self-Publishing a Tiny DIY Book (mymodernmet.com)
How to make a zine – The Creative Independent
Zine | History, Definition, Printing, Making, & Facts | Britannica
Generation Zine: Why the Revival of Zine Culture Is Crucial Today | New University | UC Irvine
Climate Camp Ireland – Climate Camp in North Leitrim, Ireland | 9th-13th August 2023
Airmid's Journal An t-Earrach 2024 (Digital Download) — Wild Awake
FutureProof Clare - Shannon LNG
fair-clare_socio-economic-rights-a-just-transition-in-clare-final-pdf_-_final_2.pdf (tasc.ie)
Planning board refuses permission for €650m Shannon LNG terminal – The Irish Times
High Court permits Shannon LNG to challenge refusal of €650m Co Kerry gas terminal – The Irish Times