lecture
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The Glasgow Effect: Social Mobility in Scotland – Ellie Harrison & Kenneth Calman
22 Aug 2019
ScotlandsFest, Edinburgh Festival Fringe -
A Tale of Two Cities – Ellie Harrison & Jemma Neville
20 Aug 2019
Edinburgh International Book Festival -
World-class Transport for Glasgow
Speaking on behalf of the Get Glasgow Moving campaign, Harrison presents a petition signed by 10,727 people calling for ‘World-class Transport for Glasgow‘ to Glasgow City Council’s Wellbeing, Empowerment, Community & Citizen Engagement Committee.
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The Future of Public Transport
10 Nov 2018
We Own It conference, London -
Roundtable Discussion on Transport Bill
Speaking on behalf of the Get Glasgow Moving campaign, Harrison makes the case for publicly-owned buses and for a properly regulated and integrated public transport network, at the Rural Economy & Connectivity Committee’s Roundtable Discussion on the Transport Bill at the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh.
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Art & Energy
9 May 2018
Free Exchange, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Northamptonshire -
Art, Activism & the Absurdities of Economic Growth
Harrison’s first TEDx talk gives an overview of her work in the decade that followed the global financial crisis of 2008. She examines the inherent contradiction between the continual and infinite ‘growth’ demanded by capitalism and the ‘sustainability’ necessary to prevent climate change, and explains how some serious analysis of her own lifestyle within our globalised economic system, led her to make some extreme decisions.
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Think Outside the Circle
26 Oct 2017
Transform Scotland AGM, Glasgow City Chambers -
Energising Culture
9 Mar 2017
Julie's Bicycle, Barbican, London -
In Conversation with Kathrin Böhm
26 Jan 2017
NN Contemporary Art, Northampton -
The Glasgow Effect
On 8 January 2017, just one week after completing her year-long ‘durational performance’ The Glasgow Effect, for which she refused to travel beyond Glasgow’s city limits, or use any vehicles except her bike, for the whole of 2016, Harrison gave a talk about the work at the Glasgow Film Theatre. On 4 November 2019, she published a book providing the complete context for her thinking and action.
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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.
Project website