Author Archives: Tim Collins

About Tim Collins

Born and raised in Rhode Island, USA Currently a Visiting Research Fellow Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Tim is an artist, educator and theorist working with the cultural issues of ecological restoration, natural regeneration and the form and function of post-industrial public space. He is currently working on a monograph on previous work that draws together ideas about art, ecology and aesthetics. He has also begun to organize a critical reader that examines the critical response to work in art and ecology. New writing on 3 Rivers 2nd Nature will be published in RACAR: The Canadian Art Review, it is complimented by an article on Nine Mile Run by Lora Senechal Carney.

Eden 3

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A focus on trees as ubiquitous living things

2006-Present.

This is a tree-focused international research initiative, intended to explore the relationship between the largest things in the world, and climate change. Artists and musicians work with technologists and scientists to reveal the biogenic interaction of trees with the changing atmospheric chemistry of cities. The intent of the project is to reveal a tree’s role in atmospheric exchange, while trying to understand the potential for human-nonhuman empathy, and its relationship to imaginative and responsible human response.

For more, read the Eden3 Project website.

3 Rivers 2nd Nature

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A 745 square mile multi-watershed project

2000-2005

A five year artists initiated research and planning project, taking the three rivers, fifty-two streams and the riparian banks as the aesthetic focus of a body of work which would support municipalities and non-profits interested in regional preservation and restoration. The project team spent four-years on the water working out of and with specific communities to map and examine the aesthetic form, function and values of the rivers and streams of Allegheny County Pennsylvania. The artists worked with attorneys, planners and scientists to examine regulation and policy, making contributions to water issues and land issues which would result in new parks, preserved lands and zoning protected open spaces.

For more, please see the 3r2n Project website.