Wilderland aims to raise awareness of the biodiversity crisis and encourage re-engagement with our natural landscape. The project creates a public space for discussion about the biodiversity and climate crises and explores our relationship to our environment through creative workshops and climate awareness events within Wild Nephin National Park and with its surrounding communities.
All our events promote sustainable use of materials and stewardship of the landscape, using collaborative, co-creative activities to initiate conversation about how we use and protect our natural environment, its resources and its plant & animal life.
Our goal is to raise awareness and foster support for Wild Nephin National Park’s creation of a wilderness sanctuary for biodiversity and habitat preservation, and cultivate local ecology networks through community-led skills-sharing workshops and collaborative biodiversity and food-growing projects.
Find out more on our project pages.
project partners
Wilderland is a partnership project between the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), North Mayo Heritage Centre, Mayo County Council’s Arts Service and Environment, Climate Change and Agriculture Department, TASC Think-tank for Action on Social Change, and artist Elaine Harrington.
Wilderland is a recipient of the Creative Climate Action fund, an initiative from the Creative Ireland Programme. It is funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media in collaboration with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. The fund supports creative, cultural and artistic projects that build awareness around climate change and empower citizens to make meaningful behavioural transformations.
Find out more about Creative Ireland.
climate justice
The People’s Transition is a participative decision-making model that gives people and communities a voice in, and ownership of, the transition to a zero-carbon society.
Wilderland is collaborating with TASC to bring their People’s Transition to Mulranny, where they will engage with the local community to research nature-based solutions that will help them transition to low carbon, sustainable communities that can adapt to the challenges presented by climate change going forward.
Find out more on how your and your community can get involved on the Mulranny People’s Transition project page.
permacomputing
In an attempt to embody the ecological principles that motivate Wilderland, this website, aims to be sustainable, by following permacomputing principles.
Wilderland is collaborating with graphic designer and lecturer Colm O’ Neill, to extend its sustainable thinking by considering the digital and communication requirements of the project. This means acknowledging that computation and the internet can have a direct, negative, impact on the climate.
Wilderland is self-hosting this site on a server made from recycled computer parts. The site is made to have very low bandwidth requirements, and that can easily be ported, and archived.
At a time when computational culture seems to be increasingly characterised by electronic and energy waste, permacomputing instead encourages a more sustainable approach by maximising the life of hardware, minimising energy consumption and focusing on the use of already available computing devices and components.
Find out more about the Permacomputing project.
