The Field was a 13 acre area of ancient woodland and grassland located 1 mile north of Stansted Airport, Essex.
Participants were invited to join us for
- monthly conservation days (usually the 3rd Sunday of the month)
- green wood working
- traditional woodland and grassland management - including using scythes, laying hedges, dead-hedging
Throughout The Field project we were particularly interested in creating access for urbanites to wild green spaces where they can light fires and chop down trees. We hoped to encourage an understanding that preserving the biodiversity of animals and plants benefits us all, even when they are creepy and scary or seemingly boring and pointless.
We feel that we need to put effort into affording city people, and especially the children of cities, access to the countryside so that they may understand why it is worth preserving, globally.
For
those who enjoy reading academic articles, more information
about The Field can be found in:
Living Beings: Perspectives on Interspecies Engagements
and an article in Ethnos
Living Beings: Perspectives on Interspecies Engagements
and an article in Ethnos
The Field | The exhibition 2017
