StACCS/Wardlaw Museum project
StACCS and the University’s Wardlaw Museum have begun a new collaboration on an exhibition and events programme in summer 2025, with the working title “Imagining Sustainable Futures: What Stories Do We Need?”.
The recently-redeveloped Wardlaw Museum has become a focus for just the kind of interface between academics and the world at large that StACCS is all about, so this is a great opportunity. The plan is to showcase a wide range of the excellent, cutting-edge research on sustainability that is already happening across the university (and maybe spark some new research projects too). Along the way, we’ll be using the exhibition as an opportunity to explore a diverse range of views about what sustainability is, or could mean, for different people. Does sustainability have to simply mean ‘green issues’? Is there more than one way to imagine the future? Who shapes the stories we tell about the past, present, and (crucially) the future? And who gets to decide what the future holds?
Matt Sheard and colleagues at the Wardlaw have been expertly guiding us through some very enjoyable initial brainstorming sessions. A lot more discussion will be taking place over the next few months, and we expect more and more people to get involved in this exciting process. We’re already starting to think through the ways in which we can use the museum itself as a research space, and as an opportunity to build partnerships with the communities beyond the University. More soon…!