Starting from Trash. A CELPiE Practice-Sharing Event.

Join colleagues (staff and postgraduate researchers) for an informal practice-sharing workshop as we explore waste as a heuristic for dialogue and teaching across disciplinary areas on 15 April, 3 to 4.30pm in the Old Union Diner.

Fresh on the heels of a similar convening with the York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI), Dr Ruth Ezra, School of Art History (and co-editor of ‘Wastework,' 2024), will offer a brief presentation before opening up the room to a moderated discussion. What lessons does the emerging field of discard studies have to teach the historical humanities? How can the study of resilient socio-ecological systems today help researchers better map the creative environments of the past while also informing best practices for sustainable studios of the future? What Vertically Integrated Projects (VIPs) might waste inspire, and how can we use research and teaching on waste to shift policy at our own university?

All are welcome to come and brainstorm as we “start from trash” to envision how waste charts new connections across our research, writing, teaching, and impact work. Colleagues may also wish to float ideas for how we can bridge classroom and laboratory, lecture theatre and museum gallery, to work with the St Andrews Centre for Critical Sustainabilities (StACCS) on future opportunities that cut across their three designated priority topics: Carbon, Capital and Community.