My current understanding is that the IC is a way to indirectly interface with the more-than-human. In that process, we are confronted with the extent to which relationships between people and the rest of nature have been dismembered or stunted. The process encouraged honest conversations about nature’s pressure points and thresholds in ways that rang with honesty, grief, disdain, and motivation.

In late February 2025, Jake Randall and Tolmeia Gregory started to release ‘Lights, Climate, Action’, a podcast series discussing film and TV through a climate lens. Curious about the production process we came up with 10 questions for the hosts. We hoped to build a better understanding of the use of cinema as a conduit for lasting climate consciousness and wanted to explore the mixed landscape of film and TV engaging with climate breakdown.

In late November, I met with Jed Dutton to write a story for the pollen project. The basis of this article is a write-up of the conversation we recorded in an Edinburgh bar.  Jed is the founder of an Edinburgh organisation called The Big Green - a staple of the city’s independent dance and clubbing scene. I’ve always been intrigued by its roots and growth and wanted to speak to Jed to understand the story behind the twist in the Big Green business model which diverts ticket costs to local eco charities and social initiatives like neighbourhood food banks. 

Interview and article by Lucy Gavaghan.

This short essay is interested in the idea of liberty, specifically individual liberty. The notion that freedom (and its correlating responsibility) is expressed and possessed by a single individual. Liberty is a key feature of legal personality. Human rights and (corporate) law protect various types of freedoms that are expressed by an individual. This notion that liberty can be atomised and placed in a single individual is essential to our current understanding of legal personality.

Reaching a hand across time and space, the giant and ancient power of these hills is to offer the ultimate perspective on our own fallibility. To show what is most important to value and protect. To make man-made fabrications – the worship of capital, the exploitation and descruction of nature, and fuelling all, our suicidal egocentrism – pale in the light of it. I wonder, if our laws were made in such a place, would stubborn minds finally be made to find their enlightenment - to set us on a different course.

Legal definitions are extremely important. They set the rules of the game and draw the line that separates the players from the pieces. For example, any definition of legal personality has two main roles. First, it determines which beings can access the legal system as a person. Second, it outlines the rights and responsibilities of those legal persons within that legal system.