Miranda Matthews
@miranda-matthews.bsky.social
artist, educator, researcher, author, ecologies in practice and representation
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Pleased to say we have a chapter in a new book, expertly edited by @miranda-matthews.bsky.social - Ecologies in Practice: Arts Interventions in the Earth Crisis - about our work in #Dharavi on #Compound13Lab - available open access:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... Please order for libraries etc!
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... Please order for libraries etc!
Compound 13 Lab, Mumbai: Learning Through Waste Ecologies
The political ecologies of waste in India are built upon complex economies of informal waste work, underpinned by hidden networks, underacknowledged socio-spatial relationships, and subaltern lives. E...
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January 7, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Pleased to say we have a chapter in a new book, expertly edited by @miranda-matthews.bsky.social - Ecologies in Practice: Arts Interventions in the Earth Crisis - about our work in #Dharavi on #Compound13Lab - available open access:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... Please order for libraries etc!
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... Please order for libraries etc!
What are genes and chromosomes? The depth of eyes, the strength of bones, a glint of hair, a breadth of smile, patterns stretching mile on mile, to give our thoughts and beings homes. 24.11.14 #smallpoem
September 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
What are genes and chromosomes? The depth of eyes, the strength of bones, a glint of hair, a breadth of smile, patterns stretching mile on mile, to give our thoughts and beings homes. 24.11.14 #smallpoem
Sometimes when words keep to themselves, I like to wrap them up as well, in something warm or else just light, and so we’re drawn together right. 17.11.14 #smallpoem
September 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Sometimes when words keep to themselves, I like to wrap them up as well, in something warm or else just light, and so we’re drawn together right. 17.11.14 #smallpoem
A lovely lake to imagine leaping, at Victoria Park today
September 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
A lovely lake to imagine leaping, at Victoria Park today
Being at one would mean
No more feeling in-between
A sense of presence in the now
Of course with time to wonder how
And somewhere calm to rest a while,
Before the next day sends a trial
Feeling at one would mean
Jumping a lake, clearing it clean. 5.11.14
No more feeling in-between
A sense of presence in the now
Of course with time to wonder how
And somewhere calm to rest a while,
Before the next day sends a trial
Feeling at one would mean
Jumping a lake, clearing it clean. 5.11.14
September 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Being at one would mean
No more feeling in-between
A sense of presence in the now
Of course with time to wonder how
And somewhere calm to rest a while,
Before the next day sends a trial
Feeling at one would mean
Jumping a lake, clearing it clean. 5.11.14
No more feeling in-between
A sense of presence in the now
Of course with time to wonder how
And somewhere calm to rest a while,
Before the next day sends a trial
Feeling at one would mean
Jumping a lake, clearing it clean. 5.11.14
Treading water to stay afloat,
Wondering why I have no note
Of bass or pitch to keep me level
In the ways I used to revel,
But now I feel the need to settle
Somewhere I can test my mettle
And see the pieces slot together
For my happiness with whatever. 29.9.14
Wondering why I have no note
Of bass or pitch to keep me level
In the ways I used to revel,
But now I feel the need to settle
Somewhere I can test my mettle
And see the pieces slot together
For my happiness with whatever. 29.9.14
September 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Treading water to stay afloat,
Wondering why I have no note
Of bass or pitch to keep me level
In the ways I used to revel,
But now I feel the need to settle
Somewhere I can test my mettle
And see the pieces slot together
For my happiness with whatever. 29.9.14
Wondering why I have no note
Of bass or pitch to keep me level
In the ways I used to revel,
But now I feel the need to settle
Somewhere I can test my mettle
And see the pieces slot together
For my happiness with whatever. 29.9.14
*Ecology in the Art Curriculum*: Centre for Art & Ecology & Centre for Arts & Learning Goldsmiths are collaborating with the British Ecological Society on 29.9.25 for an exciting day of workshops and activities for Art Teachers. Registration is on this link. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ecology-in...
Ecology in the Art curriculum, an interdisciplinary CPD event
Secondary School Art Teachers, join us for an afternoon of talks, workshops and networking with expert Artists and Ecologists.
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September 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
*Ecology in the Art Curriculum*: Centre for Art & Ecology & Centre for Arts & Learning Goldsmiths are collaborating with the British Ecological Society on 29.9.25 for an exciting day of workshops and activities for Art Teachers. Registration is on this link. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ecology-in...
England to Scotland, Have us Scots please! Without you we’d crumble and fall to our knees, losing the glory of hills, glens and lochs, of fiery hair and fleeting fox, a depth of culture so ancient and strong, and passionate people we’ve loved so long, keep us please, to brave our high seas. 18.9.14
September 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
England to Scotland, Have us Scots please! Without you we’d crumble and fall to our knees, losing the glory of hills, glens and lochs, of fiery hair and fleeting fox, a depth of culture so ancient and strong, and passionate people we’ve loved so long, keep us please, to brave our high seas. 18.9.14
I love my child, can’t say how much, but more than pages piled, up to the sun and such, and past the Milky Way, before the light of any day, started to reach us here, before stars twinkled and appeared, more than skies need to wrap the world, and more than my life unfurled. (17.09.14)
September 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I love my child, can’t say how much, but more than pages piled, up to the sun and such, and past the Milky Way, before the light of any day, started to reach us here, before stars twinkled and appeared, more than skies need to wrap the world, and more than my life unfurled. (17.09.14)
So do you believe in Piaget or Lev?
Vygotsky, Vygotsky, I like what he gotsky,
Piaget in stages has been out for ages,
Vygotsky the jet ski, ZPD, CPD (9.09.14) #tonocriticalacclaim
Vygotsky, Vygotsky, I like what he gotsky,
Piaget in stages has been out for ages,
Vygotsky the jet ski, ZPD, CPD (9.09.14) #tonocriticalacclaim
September 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
So do you believe in Piaget or Lev?
Vygotsky, Vygotsky, I like what he gotsky,
Piaget in stages has been out for ages,
Vygotsky the jet ski, ZPD, CPD (9.09.14) #tonocriticalacclaim
Vygotsky, Vygotsky, I like what he gotsky,
Piaget in stages has been out for ages,
Vygotsky the jet ski, ZPD, CPD (9.09.14) #tonocriticalacclaim
Mummy why are you on the phone?
I’m having my dinner, leave it alone!
Or better still give it to me,
I know how to use it as well you see,
I can make the pictures wobble with crosses
And send nice messages to all your bosses,
I can call all the people you never call,
Believe me I can have a ball.
I’m having my dinner, leave it alone!
Or better still give it to me,
I know how to use it as well you see,
I can make the pictures wobble with crosses
And send nice messages to all your bosses,
I can call all the people you never call,
Believe me I can have a ball.
September 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Mummy why are you on the phone?
I’m having my dinner, leave it alone!
Or better still give it to me,
I know how to use it as well you see,
I can make the pictures wobble with crosses
And send nice messages to all your bosses,
I can call all the people you never call,
Believe me I can have a ball.
I’m having my dinner, leave it alone!
Or better still give it to me,
I know how to use it as well you see,
I can make the pictures wobble with crosses
And send nice messages to all your bosses,
I can call all the people you never call,
Believe me I can have a ball.
It annoys me so much that X deactivated my account, with the poetry on it that I wrote as a new mum in 2014-15, to no critical acclaim, so I’m going to post some of them. This has cropped up because I was ‘commissioned’ to write a poem for my brother’s wedding this month.
September 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
It annoys me so much that X deactivated my account, with the poetry on it that I wrote as a new mum in 2014-15, to no critical acclaim, so I’m going to post some of them. This has cropped up because I was ‘commissioned’ to write a poem for my brother’s wedding this month.
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Michael Rosen’s guide to having a happier day: listen to music, get a good night’s sleep ... and add raisins to ice-cream
Michael Rosen’s guide to having a happier day: listen to music, get a good night’s sleep ... and add raisins to ice-cream
Philip Larkin wrote that ‘days are where we live’. Even in the bleakest of times, there are things you can do to improve yours. Former children’s laureate Rosen has some suggestions …
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August 31, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Michael Rosen’s guide to having a happier day: listen to music, get a good night’s sleep ... and add raisins to ice-cream
If you are in Birmingham on 10 June, you could view the films made in our ODAF project ‘Theatre for Climate Justice Education in Bangladesh’ - being presented at Soul City Arts by TheatrEX Director Sudip Chakroborthy. #climatejustice #drama #Bangladesh
June 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
If you are in Birmingham on 10 June, you could view the films made in our ODAF project ‘Theatre for Climate Justice Education in Bangladesh’ - being presented at Soul City Arts by TheatrEX Director Sudip Chakroborthy. #climatejustice #drama #Bangladesh
Centre for Arts and Learning invites you to, ‘(Un)Knowing the (Un)Known & The sphinx of the work to-be-made’, a seminar with Juuso Tervo & Dennis Atkinson.
This is a free online event, 17.30-19.00 (BST), 18 June 2025. #arteducation #artpractice #pedagogy
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unknowing-...
This is a free online event, 17.30-19.00 (BST), 18 June 2025. #arteducation #artpractice #pedagogy
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(Un)Knowing the (Un)Known & The sphinx of the work to-be-made
Juuso Tervo and Dennis Atkinson respond to the Centre for Arts and Learning 2025 theme of Known and Unknown
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June 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Centre for Arts and Learning invites you to, ‘(Un)Knowing the (Un)Known & The sphinx of the work to-be-made’, a seminar with Juuso Tervo & Dennis Atkinson.
This is a free online event, 17.30-19.00 (BST), 18 June 2025. #arteducation #artpractice #pedagogy
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unknowing-...
This is a free online event, 17.30-19.00 (BST), 18 June 2025. #arteducation #artpractice #pedagogy
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unknowing-...
Centre for Arts and Learning warmly invites you to, ‘Making’ Sense – Embodied Experiences in the Art Museum and Alternative Ways of Knowing, Kimberley Foster and Lisa Newby. 14 May, 5.30-7. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-sen...
‘Making’ Sense – Embodied Experiences in the Art Museum and Alternative Way
Kimberley Foster and Lisa Newby will discuss practice research and their recent collaborative dialogues with art museum collections.
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May 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Centre for Arts and Learning warmly invites you to, ‘Making’ Sense – Embodied Experiences in the Art Museum and Alternative Ways of Knowing, Kimberley Foster and Lisa Newby. 14 May, 5.30-7. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-sen...
A good morning and blossoming possibilities
April 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A good morning and blossoming possibilities
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Excellent talk yesterday!
Thank you to everyone who joined us and contributed to today’s rich and thought-provoking seminar, Beyond Representationalism, presented by Professor Jan Derry at Goldsmiths, University of London.
April 25, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Excellent talk yesterday!
Reposted by Miranda Matthews
Thank you to everyone who joined us and contributed to today’s rich and thought-provoking seminar, Beyond Representationalism, presented by Professor Jan Derry at Goldsmiths, University of London.
April 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Thank you to everyone who joined us and contributed to today’s rich and thought-provoking seminar, Beyond Representationalism, presented by Professor Jan Derry at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Reposted by Miranda Matthews
Creative Conversations with Emeritus Professor Dennis Atkinson 7 May, please join us, all welcome! @bathspauni.bsky.social
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/cccibathspa/t-xmnmlol
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/cccibathspa/t-xmnmlol
March 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Creative Conversations with Emeritus Professor Dennis Atkinson 7 May, please join us, all welcome! @bathspauni.bsky.social
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/cccibathspa/t-xmnmlol
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/cccibathspa/t-xmnmlol
You’re invited to ‘Theatre for Embodied Critical Consciousness’ 26.3.25 @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social with Sudip Chakroborthy, Ummey Hanee & Ahammad Raufur Rahim of TheatrEX @britishcouncil.bsky.social Also Amanda Kipling will present her research. #drama #theatre #dramaeducation #ecology #climate
March 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
You’re invited to ‘Theatre for Embodied Critical Consciousness’ 26.3.25 @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social with Sudip Chakroborthy, Ummey Hanee & Ahammad Raufur Rahim of TheatrEX @britishcouncil.bsky.social Also Amanda Kipling will present her research. #drama #theatre #dramaeducation #ecology #climate
New life in the park. Sometimes called ‘the people’s park’, being peopled by lots of other than humans.
March 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
New life in the park. Sometimes called ‘the people’s park’, being peopled by lots of other than humans.
Spring sprung!
March 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Spring sprung!
Centre for Arts and Learning invites you to ‘Known & Unknown’: Theatre for Embodied Critical Consciousness
26.3.25. You are invited to a roundtable with Dr Sudip Chakroborthy,TheatrEX Bangladesh & Dr Amanda Kipling. #theatre #Drama #dramaeducation #Bangladesh
www.eventbrite.com/e/cal-known-...
26.3.25. You are invited to a roundtable with Dr Sudip Chakroborthy,TheatrEX Bangladesh & Dr Amanda Kipling. #theatre #Drama #dramaeducation #Bangladesh
www.eventbrite.com/e/cal-known-...
CAL Known and Unknown: Theatre for Embodied Critical Consciousness
How can Theatre and Drama Education enable inclusive critical consciousness in global environments that are facing great crises?
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March 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Centre for Arts and Learning invites you to ‘Known & Unknown’: Theatre for Embodied Critical Consciousness
26.3.25. You are invited to a roundtable with Dr Sudip Chakroborthy,TheatrEX Bangladesh & Dr Amanda Kipling. #theatre #Drama #dramaeducation #Bangladesh
www.eventbrite.com/e/cal-known-...
26.3.25. You are invited to a roundtable with Dr Sudip Chakroborthy,TheatrEX Bangladesh & Dr Amanda Kipling. #theatre #Drama #dramaeducation #Bangladesh
www.eventbrite.com/e/cal-known-...