SCAN Summit 2024

GF Ramsay (b. Dundee, Scotland) is an artist working with poetry, ritual and analogue filmmaking. In 2017 & 2018 he burned hundreds of people’s regrets inside volcanoes across Eurasia. His fake epic poem Raven’s Reprise (2020) tells of a trickster raven travelling through the pandemic and remaking the world to her better designs. His short film CASTOROCENE (2021) sees beavers re-build the worl...

Fionn is an interdisciplinary artist from Glasgow who weaves spiralling narratives from multimodal research into stories of creation and disposal with a focus on material legacies and modern mythologies surrounding industry and environment. She addresses the transformation of fluid ecologies from the perspective of permeability with others by metabolising lessons from living and non-living collabo...

Lesley Young is the Director of the Bothy Project. She has a background in visual arts curating and production. In 2021 she worked with Sean Lynch to make Tak’ Tent O’ Time Ere Time Be Tint, a co-commission between by Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and Edinburgh Art Festival 2021. She is a founding member of the curatorial co-operative Chapter Thirteen and between 2007-10 initiated and ran The Salfo...

Dr. Josh Doble is Policy Manager, Community Land Scotland, he leads on policy advocacy and development to ensure that the benefits of community ownership and further land reform are understood at a national and regional level. Part of this role is to promote the connections between land reform and various key national policies, such as the Just Transition to Net Zero, the response to the climate c...

Alison Scott is an artist, writer and art-worker based in Scotland often working with other artists on projects. Her work is research-led, driven by film, performance and writing practices, and forefronts collaborative, speculative approaches to knowledge production. Recent projects—drawing on encounters with weather, oil, land, and the idea of the commons—engage with aspects of environmental poli...

Dr Nadine Andrews is a mindfulness and nature-connection coach/trainer and mountain leader. She works part-time in the Scottish Government providing social research, organisational learning and systems thinking expertise. She is also a Visiting Researcher at the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business Lancaster University, a member of the Climate Psychology Alliance, and an advisor on Reneé...