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project partners
Wilderland is a partnership project between the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), North Mayo Heritage Centre, Mayo County Council’s Arts Service and Environment, Climate Change and Agriculture Department, TASC Think-tank for Action on Social Change, and artist Elaine Harrington.
Wilderland is funded by Creative Ireland’s Creative Climate Action Fund, and is a catalyst project intended to raise awareness of the biodiversity crisis and encourage behavioural change towards people-led climate action. The supporting goal is to raise awareness foster support for Wild Nephin National Park’s creation of a wilderness sanctuary for biodiversity and habitat preservation.
The project will create a public space for discussion about the biodiversity and climate crises and explore our relationship to our environment through creative workshops and climate awareness events that promote sustainable use of materials and stewardship of the landscape, using collaborative, co-creative activities to initiate conversation about how we use and protect our natural environment, its resources and its plant & animal life.
climate justice
Wilderland is collaborating with TASC Think-tank for Action on Social Change to bring their People’s Transition to Mulranny. It’s a participative decision-making model that gives people and communities a voice in, and ownership of, the transition to a zero-carbon society.
Find out more on how your and your community can get involved on the Mulranny People’s Transition project page.
permacomputing
In an attempt to embody the ecological principles that motivate Wilderland, this website, aims to be sustainable, by following permacomputing principles.
A blend of the words permaculture and computing, permacomputing is a potential field of convergence between technology, cultural work, environmental research, and activism. It aims to promote and experiment with a more sustainable relationship with computer and network technology.
Wilderland is collaborating with graphic designer and lecturer Colm O’ Neill, to extend its sustainable thinking by considering the digital and communication requirements of the project. This means acknowledging that computation and the internet can have a direct, negative, impact on the climate.
Wilderland is self-hosting this site on a server made from recycled computer parts. The site is made to have very low bandwidth requirements, and that can easily be ported, and archived.
At a time when computational culture seems to be increasingly characterised by electronic and energy waste, permacomputing instead encourages a more sustainable approach by maximising the life of hardware, minimising energy consumption and focusing on the use of already available computing devices and components.
Find out more about the Permacomputing project.
