Could insurance be the unlikely environmental hero in forcing business practice and individual behavioural change? The Waste.Agency two months on... Photo by Graham Barker, John Lewis Bag in Regent's Canal When beginning the Waste.Agency intervention two months ago, the intention was to draw in people from the insurance industries to bring a perspective that might be at odds with artists and academics regarding how the economy is constructed. What surprises has been the gr

A fascinating conversation during Tuesday (24 Nov 14) lunchtime took place with a Lloyd's Register employee discussing the difference in sea salt densities in the northern and southern hemispheres and the risk to super freighters. While developing our thoughts and approach to our upcoming series on plastic in the sea, discussion turned to the risk to ship propellers. A senior worker comes in from Lloyd’s Register who joins the conversation and explained in great detail that

This blog post asks whether plastics in water could potentially damage power plant cooling systems and if there were a risk identified would it lead to an insurance claim? If the answer is yes, then we want to explore how such a claim could be mitigated and whether it is in the insurance industry’s interest to take a lead role in reducing plastic entering the seas and rivers. Photo: Martin Nikolaj Bech under creative commons _______________ Kloe Wu is on a work placement at

John McKiernan is this week's Londonist Out Loud Podcast guest discussing The Tights Ball and other Platform-7 abstract performance art interventions with N Quentin Woolf on London Bridge train station's platform seven Click to Listen Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show focuses one man and his tights. John McKiernan of Platform 7 has collected thousands of pairs of used tights and rolled them into a ball. The pair talk at London B

RE-IMAGINING LADIES TIGHTS CATFORD AND ACROSS LONDON BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM GATHERINGS: age UK, Lewisham & Southwark, 10 Catford Broadway, Catford, SE6 4SP Collecting old tights and stockings, public washing, creating yarn while storytelling, a promenade photoshoot before producing something new, this project will re-imagine how women perceive these easily discarded garments. When women wear tights or stockings, how do they view themselves? How does it make them feel and how ar

In response to the Deluge artwork, at Tapescape Catford: The Intervention I, by artist Paul Halliday, sociologist Francisco Calafate Faria presented a paper discussing obsolescence, waste and redundancy to an open audience in disused Blockbuster Video store, Catford, London, SE6. DELUGE: DISEMBOWELLING BLACK BOXES An essay by Francisco Calafate Faria responding to Deluge In the beginning there was the motion picture film - a sequence of photographs with a sound track. The ree

In response to Deluge artist Paul Halliday and sociologist Francisco Calafate Faria presented papers discussing obsolscence, waste and redundancy to an open audience at Tapescape Catford Regarding Obsolescence An essay by Paul Halliday responding to his own art installation 'Deluge' Ob-sol-escence. What does this word mean? Such an intriguing word. A word that points to a rich etymological journey contained within the form itself; possibly even hinting at some remaining trace

Throughout Summer 2011 Paul Hazelton is an international artist, presently preparing for a commission for the New York Museum for Art & Design, born and grew up in Cliftonville, Kent. Throughout the summer project, Paul was pivotal to the success of the Moonbow Margate intervention, with many of the interesting artworks and performances that appeared having in some way Paul’s prints on them. Paul Hazelton's thoughts on the project: 'My first intervention at Moonbow was the w

Cliftonville based artist, Clare Pattinson created a series of innovative food menus that were designed specifically for the hand made menu holders as part of the ‘What is Food?’ exhibition at The Lido in Margate, and also for the Dining Club of Margate. Food Police The three menu holders are humorous, interactive mechanical toys, inviting the diner to partake in the animation of the characters on top of the wooden mechanical boxes. The characters signify the food police