As part of our 2021 ‘Museum of Rapid Transition’ programme, we designed three projects to coincide with Scotland’s hosting of the UN Climate Change Conference. The Awakening was one of them.
All inspired by the natural and cultural heritage of the Ecomuseum, the projects aim to both mark this very historic event locally and create experiences that help our communities and visitors take rapid climate action and transition to more regenerative ways of living.
The Ecomuseum believes that engaging people with their heritage has huge, currently under utilised potential to help people build more regenerative and resilient lifestyles and mobilise climate action in two primary ways. They are a knowledge & learning resource which can help contextualise what is happening and develop skills and mitigation strategies that build adaptive capacity and they are a participative force which can bring people together, challenge the status quo and create spaces both physically and in our minds to imagine that anything is possible.
In this section, you can watch a film about The Awakening, which involved the artists, Martin McGuinness and Fraser Grey, our Makar, Jim Mackintosh, and our Storyteller, Lindsey Gibb. You can also listen separately to Lindsey’s story that she created especially for this event and Jim’s poem, also written especailly for this event and read the blog post we wrote at the time which gives you some more background to the event.
The Awakening film by Stefan Morrocco:
The Awakening Story by Lindsey Gibb
Accept The Awakening Poem by Jim Mackintosh
Blog post about The Awakening