Ecogeographer brings together ongoing and completed projects ranging in size from small projects with like-minded individuals and collectives to large undertakings with more-than-profit businesses, charities, trusts and galleries. All these projects focus on innovation in the field of art, design, sustainability and deal with landscape-based issues.
MOBILE WELL-BEING – HEALTHY NATURES POST-PANDEMIC: 2022
Invited to investigate, with a team of researchers, the connections between mobilities and post-pandemic changes of lifestyle through stakeholder and scholar driven creative workshops in Baroniet Rosendal, Norway. Funded by The Nordic Research Council in the Humanities and Social sciences (NOS-HS).
BY WALKING: 2020-22
One of 30 researchers invited to initiate a network for collaboration, discussion and experimentation within the area of research methodologies concerned with walking. Working remotely & in Vålådalen, Sweden. Funded by Riksbankens jubileumsfond, Sweden.
SOS MANGROVE – IN RESPONSE TO MV WAKASHIO OIL SPILL
Creation of indicator Mangrove illustrations for scientific App data collection with Reef Conservation, Mauritius and Dr. John Martin, University of Plymouth.
UNLOCK NATURE: NATURE LIBÉRÉÉ 2020-21
Co-exploring community perceptions of nature in Mauritius using digital participatory methods during lockdown.
MAPPING LANDSCAPE VALUES 2021
Co-developing a perceptual mapping analysis service with cartographer Shaun Lewin. This project has received funding from the Agritech Cornwall Innovation Grant Scheme funded from the ERDF as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020.
GREAT LITTLE TRAINS OF WALES 2021
Picture sourcing & databasing for a new website to promote Welsh sustainable transport with Fiona Fyfe Associates.
RIGHT PLACE RIGHT TREE 2020-21
Providing illustrations and QGIS assistance for guidance to ensure that the right tree is planted in the right place, and that local variations in landscape character are sustained and enhanced through appropriate tree planting.
Ruritage 2019-22
Rural regeneration through systemic heritage-led strategies. Developed perceptual based workshops using rapid material prototyping and visual methods to assist in the monitoring of landscapes. Now co-developing data collection.
Coral Communities 2017-18
Building Socio-Ecological Resilience to Coral Reef Degradation in the Islands of the Western Indian Ocean. Co-created an innovative arts-based method to help communities visualize and build on ideas of resilience using participatory methods.
Film. Dominica Williamson with Plymouth Marine Laboratory and partners.
tagscape 2016-ongoing
Gathering, sensing and picturing perceptual and natural data. Leverhulme artist-in-residence. Researched and produced innovative participatory mapping methods at Univeristy of Plymouth’s School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Setting up TAGSCAPE exhibition at RGS-IBG Annual International Conference.
Disposable Cup 1995-ongoing
Self initiated project. Collecting and exhibiting disposable cups since 1995. For instance: ‘Drinking from the World: The Disposable Cup’ exhibition at Basile Gallery, Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana, USA, 2010.
House of Springs: Trengwainton 2016-18
Artist, designer and facilitator in heritage garden project. Created the initial look and feel of project, co-created plant-based workshops and delivered seasonal plant illustrations for digital, print and exhibition use.
Cornwall Archaeological Society 2017
Directed the creation of an image archive and overall design strategy. Redesigned website and continue to improve website with subcommittee.
The Giant Outdoors 2015
Oral history and archaeological mapping. Beta Version 1.0 launched
Directed and designed an interactive map in the form of a web app to interpret and reflect on an archaeological landscape. Working to develop a version 2.0.
Rate My View 2015
Created promotional material for downloadable App. Managed creative team to output video and print assets.
The Giant’s Quoit 2014-15
Directed, designed and managed all print and digital assets for this award winning project. Also developed educational and outreach resources and oral history.
Eden Project Florilegium 2014
Redesigned newsletter and website. Working with committee to improve outreach.
The First Wave 2012-13
Made 14 oral history interviews in Cornwall and Ireland. Inteviewed professional and local surf heros such Dan ‘Mole’ Joe , Chris Hines MBE, Andy Hill and Alan Duke.
Eden Project Florilegium 2007–2009
Worked towards first botanical plate for scientific archive. Continue to submit, publish and exhibit work. For instance, exhibiting in Radical Botany, Eden Project, 2020.
theirwork 2005-6
Co-developed ethnographic mapping software – – read about the project in Re-thinking Maps
Green Map System 2003-2004
Design director for Green Map Atlas. Published in Fuad-Luke, A. (2005) ‘Green Map Atlas’, The Eco Design Handbook, London: Thames and Hudson (2nd edition) p.177.
