research & publications

What follows is only a selection of the most significant published work by others, and by us about PLATFORM's work. We will be making these texts and more available on this site soon.

For publications on oil corporations by the Unravelling the Carbon Web project go here.

New poetry anthology on climate justice launched: "No Condition is Permanent"

PLATFORM and African Writers Abroad proudly present 19 poets and 29 poems in a new volume crackling with acute observation and arresting calls to justice. 
The collection features powerful new work from acclaimed performance-poets Simon Murray (Sai Murai) and Dorothea Smartt, commissioned during PLATFORM's season "C Words: Carbon, Climate, Capital, Culture" (Arnolfini, Bristol, England in 2009). 
It republishes selected work from the anthology "Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa (Flipped Eye 2005) by Helon Habila, Sue Richardson, Davd Eggleton, Tolu Ogunlesi, Carmen Borja, and features major Bristol poets Ros Martin and Edson Burton. The anthology debuts fresh exciting work from participants in the "Full Circle/Killing TINA, Embracing Taboo" workshops run by Simon and Dorothea during C Words, and ends with a compelling piece by Zena Edwards. This is a rare volume which both balms the soul, galvanises the spirit, and stirs up hope and action.

Price £4, available from PLATFORM
44 pages, plus full colour centrefold photography from C Words
Pay us by Paypal (our account kevin@platformlondon.org)
Or send a cheque to our office 7 Horselydown Lane, London SE1 2LN
ISBN 978-9567365-0-5

http://africanwritersabroad.org.uk/

PLATFORM’s work discussed in publications

Slow Activism. Homelands, love and the lightbulb, Wallace Heim in Nature Performed: Environment, Culture and Performance, eds. B Szerszynski, W Heim and C Waterton, Sociological Review/Blackwell, 2004

The Groundwater Diaries. Trials, tributaries and tall stories from beneath the streets of London, Tim Bradford, Flamingo, 2003, pp 408 & 450

Seeing through place, Local Approaches to Global Problems, Malcolm Miles, in Recoveries and Reclamations, Advances in Art and Urban Futures Volume 2, eds Judith Rugg and Daniel Hinchcliffe, Intellect, 2002, pp 77 - 89.

Imagination is the root of all change, Jane Rendell, in Bridge, The Architecture of Connection, Lucy Blakstad, August Birkhauser, 2002, pp 30 - 37

Conversation Pieces : Collaborations and Artistic Identity, Grant Kester, catalogue essay for Unlimited Partnerships: Collaborations in Contemporary Art, curated by Jill Casid and Maria Deguzman, Cepa Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA, 2001, pp 2 - 8

Viral Art - Strategies for a new democracy, Malcolm Miles, in Journal of Visual Art Practice, (Intellect Press), Vol 1, Number 2, 2001, pp 71 - 79

Pathways to the Future, Thinking Differently, John Jopling, Sustainable London Trust, 2000, p 115

Art in a New Century?, Malcolm Miles, in Art Monthly Australia, Number 130, June 2000, pp 27 - 30

Quaking Houses, Art, Science and the Community, a collaborative approach to water pollution, Penny Kemp and John Griffiths, Jon Carpenter Books, 1999, p 66 - 70 and various

Millennial Thinking, Malcolm Miles, in Public Art Review, USA, Fall/Winter 1999, pp 15 - 19

Land and Environmental Art, Jeffrey Kastner and Brian Wallis, Phaidon, 1998, pp 39, 40, 169, 265

Art, Space and the City, Malcolm Miles, Routledge, 1997, pp 181, 184

Roles and Reasons, The Scope and Value of Artist-led organisations, Susan Jones, AN Visual Arts, 1997

The Art of the Possible, John Heyderman, London Cyclist, August/September 1997.

Future Nature, a vision for conservation, WM Adams, Earthscan 1996, p 113

Neither Time Nor Material, Performance, Installation, Drawing, Video 1982 - 1995, Nick Stewart - artist; catalogue Orchard Gallery Derry, Sheffield Hallam University, Arts Council Of England, 1995, pp 82 - 86

The Artist in the Changing City, Jennifer Williams et al, British American Arts Assoc, 1993, p 69/70, plus one b&w photo

The Lost Rivers of London, Nicholas Barton, Historical Publications, 1992, p 152 - 3.

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Digital Media

Websites:
Delta project on Seen & Unseen Website: Helix Arts.

CD-roms:
Seen & Unseen, collaborative solutions to pollution, Helix Arts, 2000

Brave New Economy, How to grow a better world, New Economics Foundation, 1999

London’s Thames, the living, working river, ThamesClean, 1998

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Print Media

Of Tipping Points and Sinking Ships - A Conversation
between James Marriott and Suzi Gablik, over issues of climate change
and addressing its challenges to the imagination - published by Green
Museum Website