Your NameKirsty Badenoch
Email Addresskirstybadenoch@gmail.com
Cohort AssignmentEurope with In-Person Intensive in Lisbon, Winter-Spring 2024
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life?

Artist, researcher and eduator (my background is as a trained architect, I have worked in landscape / urbanism for the last ten years)

2. What role do you see as yours to play?

I seek to connect with the magic / spirit of place, and to communicate and enable that within others.
I do this through drawing, making, envisioning and storytelling. I develop interdisciplinary, alchemic and messy site-based processes, and act as a conduit for exchange (between people and places, and between people and other people)

3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above?

To interrogate contemporary situations of environmental injustice / To listen and give voice to the landscape, in a language that contemporary society can hear, see and understand

To bring together interdisciplinary practitioners around environmental issues / To develop new ways of connecting and working together

4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are?

To strengthen my higher, listening, intuitive self
To develop my vocabulary and voice, to be able to better share this side with others

5. And for professional growth?

To develop my practice in a way that is no longer constrained by the built environment industry that I'm used to (which outwardly talks the talk but is hard to budge from convention, and very rarely follows through)

6. What have you invested in to get you where you are?

Sorry, I don't quite understand this question!

7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life?

Landscape Theory / Deep Ecology / Music / Buddhism
John Cage / Ram Dass / Tim Ingold / Juhani Pallasmaa / Giles Clement / Richard Sennett / Carolyn Merchant / Timothy Morton / Aldo Leopold

8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it?

I believe in interconnectivity, magic, and rights for all beings.

Date CreatedFebruary 1, 2024