Search Results for “Neil Scott”
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The Glasgow Effect: A Discussion
…I want about Scottish Culture or the experience of poverty in Scotland. And I don’t think that’s necessarily a good thing. And I’m saying this coming from a very specific…
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Bus Regulation: The Musical (Strathclyde)
…Neil Cooper describing it as “Ellie Harrison’s glorious piece of agit-prop theatre”. https://www.facebook.com/blatantselfpromotion/photos/10162237540361336/ Bibliography Barclay, K, 2017, Scottish Buses during Deregulation, Amberley Publishing Barclay, K, 2019, Scottish Buses during Deregulation:…
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Notes towards Becoming a Good Citizen
Neil Scott interviews Ellie Harrison about her transition from obsessive ‘data collector‘ to active political campaigner. The neoliberal orthodoxies of the last 30 years lie in tatters: free market capitalism…
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Cos I Can
…from Locavore, have a humanities degree, make my own homemade gnocchi and dabble in ironically old-fashioned hobbies like knitting and hiking, I’m allowed to voice the following opinions. How Scottish…
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Dark Days
…Tramway as part of Creative Carbon Scotland’s Glasgow’s Green: Imaging a Sustainable City event on 14 March 2015 (both pictured below). Two other event participants: Caren Gilbert and Neil Scott,…
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The Glasgow Effect
…the 26 November and I heckled one of the Scottish Government ministers who was stood at the lectern giving a big speech about how great the Scottish Government was in…
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Independence will lead to Artistic ‘Desecration’
An explosion of confetti will greet the announcement of Scottish independence. This isn’t another one of Alex Salmond’s fanciful promises, but an installation by a visual artist named Ellie Harrison….
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After the Revolution, Who Will Clean Up the Mess?
…and the Referendum on Scottish Independence, there was a lot of interest in Scottish culture over the summer of 2014. Summerhall TV made a short film about Harrison’s work (above)…
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A Quiet Revolution in Public Transport
…result of a four year delay in the Scottish Government enacting the powers in the Transport Act 2019), SPT now has the opportunity to do something far more radical, which…
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Our public transport must be a joy to use
…even car sharing. But transport is now the UK’s biggest contributor to climate change. With the Scottish Government committed to net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2045, something urgent…
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The Hot 100: the definitive list of Scottish creative talent
No.93 Ellie Harrison Money. No other artist tackled this dominant topic as directly as Ellie Harrison in 2011, whose A Brief History of Privatisation summed up decades of government outsourcing…
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How to improve Scotland’s public transport system
…change, but it has failed to recommend the most obvious solution – better buses. The motion passed today will do nothing to meet two key aims of the Scottish Government’s…
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Environmental Policy
…also plans to work with web designer Neil Scott to streamline various aspects of this website’s design to reduce its energy use. Until then, as a reminder of the work…
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Website Archive
This is Version 4.0 of ellieharrison.com designed and built by Neil Scott in collaboration with Harrison. The website was finally launched in October 2015, after nearly three years of development…
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The Art School Handbook
…of money available to Scottish Universities, which is still controlled by Westminster: via the UK’s Research Councils (Collini 2013, p.12). The super-bureaucratic systems which have been recently introduced to “control…