2016
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People Powered Money
From March 2016 – March 2017, Harrison worked as part of the ‘Glasgow Pound Working Group’, to explore possibilities for developing a citywide community currency to serve the people of Glasgow and build a stronger local economy.
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The 2016 Hot 100
3 Nov 2016
The List (p.31) -
Dundee lecturer Ellie finding Glasgow Effect taking its toll
15 Oct 2016
The Courier (p.19) -
A Better Railway for Britain
Writing as founder and coordinator of Bring Back British Rail, Harrison reflects on the last seven years’ campaigning for the public ownership of our railways in this preface for the campaign’s first report, launched in the Houses of Parliament in London on 13 October 2016. (Word count: 663)
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Scottish Artists Union AGM
Harrison was invited to be guest speaker at the 2016 AGM of the Scottish Artists Union, the union she has been a member of since 2010. She offered some insights into her research and work during The Glasgow Effect, in relation to some timeless trade union themes: solidarity and exploitation.
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The Sustainability of a Sustainable Lifestyle
22 Sep 2016
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Get Glasgow Moving
Speaking as founder of the Bring Back British Rail campaign at the Get Glasgow Moving! Building a citywide Public Transport campaign meeting, Harrison gives an account of her experience of various public transportation systems in cities around the UK to show how and why Glasgow must radically transform its own. (Timecode 08:54-19:25)
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Rail re-nationalisation debate
27 Aug 2016
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What can the world learn from radical approaches to socially engaged art-making?
Harrison was invited to introduce the Radical Renewable Art + Activism Fund project as part of this panel discussion chaired by Anna Cutler at the third International Teaching Artist Conference (ITAC3) exploring ‘Best, next and radical practice in participatory arts‘. (Timecode 00:56-09:05)
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The RRAAF Founding Symposium
Harrison outlines the vision, mission and values of the Radical Renewable Art + Activism Fund at the start of its Founding Symposium at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow on 23-24 July 2016.
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Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf
2 Jul 2016
QUAD, Derby -
Loving the Inbox: the Artist as Bureaucrat
1 Jul 2016
ArtReview Asia (p.68-71)
