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Place, Climate Change and the Experience of Loss When places deteriorate due to climate change, people's connections to them (attachment) are also affected. The loss of the life possibilities sustained by places as a result of climate change is at ....

Paper alert: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Our researcher, Pablo Fernandez Velasco, together with Virginia De Biasio, connects the experience of ecological grief to place attachment and incommensurable losses.

Sometimes we need some fresh air to get writing done. PMM on a writing Residency in Chazelet (French Alps) for Son of a Punk.

research at its best yesterday: XScape @xscape-project.bsky.social Material Minds workshop Varieties of Externalism, showcasing fab new work from Andy Clark & team across philosophy, archaeology, & computational cognitive science, + visitors Lucy Osler & Rob Clowes on AI, me wrapping up intense day

Registration is now open for Trans Cosmologies 2.

30 April–1 May 2026
University of Stirling

A two-day in-person multimedia event exploring trans cosmologies, memory, ethics and artistic practice.

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Thinking with Play: A Tabletop Kōrero — conversation What can games teach us about relationships, conflict, and cultural knowledge? This in-person workshop invites participants to experience TRIBAL, a one-on-one tabletop game shaped by Māori ideas of p...

Games do not only model conflict. They can also carry stories, identity, and cultural knowledge.

Thinking with Play is an in-person workshop with Dr Aramiha Harwood at Creative Stirling, featuring live play and kōrero around TRIBAL.

Thu 23 Apr, 11:00–12:30
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Experts, artists, and others build novel skills in different, hybrid systems. Deliberate ecological design can shape conditions in which technologies operate, rather than accepting whatever configurations emerge from market forces or design defaults. @leverhulme.ac.uk and @memoryplace.bsky.social

Spatial memory has always been fragmentary and imperfect, more of a collage than a detailed map, and deeply dependent on enculturation in specific environments. New digital tools do reconfigure cognitive systems, but not always for the worse. Our title echoes Andy Clark's great 'Being There' (1997).

Being Where? Putting Memory, Technology, and Wayfinding Together Again - Review of Philosophy and Psychology Review of Philosophy and Psychology - Although wayfinding is a central domain for 4E research, much work on spatial cognition and navigation still operates within an internalist framework. This is...

‘Being Where? Putting memory, technology, and wayfinding together again’: new open-access paper, led by Mac Mingon with @ajgillett.bsky.social We set ‘techno-gloom’ about GPS degrading basic human navigation skills against historical shifts in ‘wayfinding ecologies’ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Can games become a way of remembering?

Dr Aramiha Harwood (Ngāpuhi) explores how tabletop game design grounded in Māori values can transmit knowledge, identity and storytelling.

📅 Wed 22 Apr · 16:00–17:30
📍 University of Stirling + online

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Have you ever listened to a river?
Centre associate Lizzie Robertson is the subject of a short film by Chris Leslie. Using a hydrophone, she explores sound, memory and urban ecology in a landscape shaped by industrial pasts and environmental change.
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In person only @ University of Stirling next Wednesday

Looking forward to this unique opportunity to tale a walk around Pathfoot looking at site specific works - also online - please come.

Chris Renolds — Visiting Speaker | CSPM #oralhistory #conflictresolution #northernireland YouTube video by Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory

How can oral history engage with Northern Ireland’s difficult past without forcing agreement? Historian Chris Reynolds reflects on agonistic memory and the value of keeping contested perspectives in dialogue - bridging the gap between the academy and public impact.

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online roundtable tomorrow, Tues 3pm UK, 4pm CET, embodied and distributed remembering in writing and reading, memory and literature! - me with some fab literary/ cultural/ cognitive scholars, plus open discussion

Voices of ’68 and ’74: Oral history and agonistic memory in Northern Ireland In this talk, Professor Chris Reynolds (Nottingham Trent University) explores how oral history can help people engage with Northern Ireland’s difficult past without forcing agreement or closure. He ar...

This Wednesday, 16:00 — Chris Reynolds (Nottingham Trent).

Voices of ’68 and ’74: oral history and agonistic memory in Northern Ireland.

Hybrid seminar (Stirling + online). Register now.

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Trans Cosmologies 2: Art, Ritual & Memory
30 Apr–1 May · University of Stirling

A two-day gathering of trans, gender-nonconforming and queer artists and thinkers exploring memory, ritual and cosmology through performance, scholarship and dialogue.

More details and registration soon.

Wonderful to have @cperistianis.bsky.social at the Centre @memoryplace.bsky.social for the month of March!

Artist Talk with Toby Paterson RSA Join the Art Collection and the Centre for the Sciences of Memory and Place for an artist talk with renowned artist Toby Paterson RSA.

Join us & the @stir.ac.uk Art Collection Artist talk with Toby Paterson RSA

How do artists think about architecture and the experience of place?

27 March 2026
13:00–14:00
Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling

Free event. In person and online.

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Tues March 10 online panel: memory, writing, & reading. Is remembering distributed across books, screens, characters, fictional places, traditions, drafts, notes, fellow readers.? I'm in with a short provocation, with colleagues from Norway & Denmark, 3-5pm UK, 4-6pm CET: mailchi.mp/57f930178c24...

A new paper co-authored by Centre researcher Dale Leorke rethinks the university library beyond the repository.

If the library is still the “heart of the campus”, what does it now embody?

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This Wednesday, 16:00 — @cperistianis.bsky.social

How do you farm land patrolled by soldiers?

Since 1974, Greek Cypriot farmers have cultivated fields inside the Buffer Zone — alongside military forces and UN peacekeepers.

In person & online.
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Place is not passive—Memory is not settled
We work across cognitive science, social science & the arts to examine how people find their way. In contested pasts & rapidly changing environments, understanding place and memory underpins how we locate ourselves—intellectually, socially and historically

Great new work by @tmcasimiro.bsky.social and colleagues: contemporary archaeology of a densely reworked palimpsest of graffiti and other marks made in the 70s & 80s on a surveilled military boundary wall, analysis layered with testimony from locals who were young then @stir.ac.uk @leverhulme.ac.uk

Nice to see this RR out

Thank you Paul Max Morin for making these short videos - great introduction to visiting researchers @memoryplace.bsky.social

Voices of ’68 and ’74: Oral history and agonistic memory in Northern Ireland In this talk, Professor Chris Reynolds (Nottingham Trent University) explores how oral history can help people engage with Northern Ireland’s difficult past without forcing agreement or closure. He ar...

REGISTER NOW How can we engage contested pasts without forcing agreement? SEMINAR - Voices of ’68 and ’74: Oral history and agonistic memory in Northern Ireland 11 March | 16:00–17:30 (UK) University of Stirling | Hybrid
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