Wastelands speak to us as “waiting lands” (to borrow from the German term die Brachen) – but what are they saying to us? What knowledges, skills and practices do we need to engage with them? What kind of futures could wastelands have in the city (of Glasgow and beyond)? Often seen as dormant, useless or derelict land, wastelands are also places of nature and social life. They are sites of risk and play; non-design and regulation; property rights and trespass; contamination and renewal. Wastelands are, then, places of paradox, which lay bare the complex actualities of cities whilst also suggesting alternatives ways of making them.

 
In our fourth seminar in the ‘Wastelands and the City’ series, entitled Re-making from Waste: Re-imagining Glasgow with time, space and nature, Frances Robertson, Callum Sutherland, and Seamus Connelly will focus on different areas of the City of Glasgow. In this session we bring together an artist-theorist, a human geographer, and a public servant to think dynamically and openly about the possibilities afforded by such sites as well as to reveal the engagements already taking place in the City. Peter McCaughey, Director/Lead Artist of WAVEparticle, and part-time lecturer in the Department of Sculpture & Environmental Art at the Glasgow School of Art, will act as initial respondent to the speakers’ presentations.
 
For additional information and to sign up, email ross.beveridge@glasgow.ac.uk. 
 
Date: 11 June 2025
Time: 15:00-17:30
Location: Reid Lecture Theatre, Glasgow School of Art 164 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G3 6RQ

 

First published: 20 May 2025

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