Ellie Harrison

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2012
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What If… Artists Redesigned Economics?

Sustain Talks at Royal College of Art, London. Noel Douglas from Occupy Design UK, artist Ellie Harrison, and James Meadway and Ruth Potts from the New Economics Foundation discuss the failure of capitalism to deliver on social and environmental wellbeing, and explore the structures that might be, redefining economic parameters. Chaired by Cecilia Wee, RCA. Visual Communication graduate 2012, Livia Lima presents her work on alternative currencies.

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Other Lectures

  • Art, Activism & the Absurdities of Economic Growth
  • The Glasgow Effect
  • The Glasgow Effect: A Discussion
  • The RRAAF Report Launch Event
  • The RRAAF Debate
  • Sustainability in Practice
  • Ethics: Extremism & Compromise
  • Transmediale: Capture All
  • Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • In conversation with Ewa Jasiewicz
  • Time & Motion: Redefining Working Life
  • For the Love of It
  • What If… Artists Redesigned Economics?
  • 21 Revolutions
  • The Story
  • How to Reconcile the Careerist Mentality with our Impending Doom
  • One Minute Manifesto
  • Hedonism vs. Asceticism: A control freak’s guide to the MFA
  • This is… Ellie Harrison
  • Data Visualisation
  • In conversation with Sally O’Reilly
  • Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector
  • The Live Lecture

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Ellie Harrison is an artist & activist based in Glasgow (UK). On 8 January 2017, she presented The Glasgow Effect: A talk by Ellie Harrison at Glasgow Film Theatre. In 2019, she was commissioned to develop Bus Regulation: The Musical for Manchester Art Gallery and her first book The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint was published by Luath Press. In 2020-21, her Early Warning Signs are installed at four ‘host venues‘ around the UK and her Vending Machine features in the 😹 LMAO exhibition exploring humour in data visualisation at the Open Data Institute in London.

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It was a great honour to give evidence to Scotland's Climate Assembly this weekend on behalf of Get Glasgow Moving. My presentation outlined the β€˜rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes’ to our public transport system necessary before 2030 to address the climate emergency 🌍 ... See MoreSee Less

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Land travel - Ellie Harrison - SCA Weekend 3

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Here's a little project I've been working on this year during lockdown - compiling a comprehensive Bibliography for my book 'The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint', which was published by Luath Press in November 2019 πŸ“šπŸ€“ The book itself has Endnotes, but no Bibliography, so I thought it would useful to draw together all the resources referenced in one alphabetical list, including links to those available online. ... See MoreSee Less

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The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint

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Fancy a bit of holiday reading? πŸŽ„ My book 'The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint' is on sale direct from publishers Luath Press πŸ“•πŸ“™πŸ“’πŸ“—πŸ“˜ Order by 15th December to receive in time for Christmas πŸ‘‡ ... See MoreSee Less

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The Glasgow Effect — Luath Press

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Terrific book. Very readable and so interesting. All your answers to why things (often not great) happen in Glasgow.

If you care about Glasgow read this book.

I finally finished it! An online comprehensive Bibliography for the Book. I hope it's useful: glasgoweffect.ellieharrison.com/bibliography/

PlayEllie Harrison, Early Warning Signs (2011 - onwards)

It’s great to be part of this lecture series on Artists & Climate Change alongside inspiring organisations Sculpture Placement Group, Ostrero & Creative Carbon Scotland. I'm speaking about my art, activism and awareness raising activities this Thursday 3 December, 7pm ✊ It's free to all Scottish Artists Union members, so come join us! artistsunion.scot/events ... See MoreSee Less

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Brilliant news about the Divest Dundee campaign today! 🀩 Ive been campaigning for more than five years to get my workplace - the University of Dundee - to commit to divesting its endowment from fossil fuel companies. Today they finally did it! Thanks to People & Planet and to Hannah Feuerstein and all the brilliant students who have helped pile the pressure on!

Brilliant news about the Divest Dundee campaign today! 🀩 I've been campaigning for more than five years to get my workplace - the University of Dundee - to commit to divesting its endowment from fossil fuel companies. Today they finally did it! Thanks to People & Planet and to Hannah Feuerstein and all the brilliant students who have helped pile the pressure on! ... See MoreSee Less

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Read the university press release here: www.dundee.ac.uk/stories/university-divest-fossil-fuel-companies

Read Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee student Hannah Feuerstein's blog for People & Planet explaining how we won the Divest Dundee campaign! ✊ peopleandplanet.org/blog/2020-11-13/divestment-dundee-how-we-did-it

Read the Friends of the Earth Scotland press release here: foe.scot/press-release/dundee-uni-divests/

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