Natural Capital Issue FREE MAGAZINE You’re not Editor’s letter Contents In this special edition of Artefact magazine we are exploring ways to recali- 04 IN BRIEF brate contemporary life - learning from, mimicking and embracing nature; just sweetening reimagining London; up-cycling waste; celebrating craft and making; exploring 08 GREENING THE SCREEN the origins of festivals; investigating ways to shape the world by listening, Ria Sajit learning and taking action. This year we are exploring the theme of ʻNatural Capital’ - looking at how the natural world profoundly affects our lives, even 09 WHAT’S THE POINT OF PROTEST? your day… within the city. Josh Potter The articles and images in the magazine demonstrate that connecting with nature Cover image 11 FILMING GREENPEACE and exploring the roots that sustain and explain our world, is an exciting op- Action against Whaling Brigitte Lardinois portunity to access an incredible source of information, inspiration and innova- Factory Ship. Greenpeace Your support activists protest at the tion. It reminds us too, that if we become strangers to our natural environment, 16 OF JACKS AND GREEN MEN we will be unprepared for the challenges of our future. stern of whaling fac- Simon Costin tory ship. (Greenpeace means our Nature like all creative organisations and individuals must continue to be Witness book page 48-49) 18 ETHICAL FASHION adaptive and disconcertingly ʻintelligentʼ. Becoming a ʻstudentʼ of the natural (Greenpeace Changing the Sophie Hadley world rather than a conqueror, or a coloniser, is an exciting (and essential) World page 11 similar communities professional and personal approach to adopt in city life. photo) © Greenpeace / 22 GREEN GIRL Rex Wyler. Thomas Hibbitts 24 OVERFISHING can invest Danielle Agtani 28 CAPE FAREWELL: HOW ART CAN in education BATTLE CLIMATE CHANGE David Buckland Contributors 32 ALTERNATIVES TO MEAT This special edition of Artefact was written, photographed, edited, Diana Tleuliyeva and produced by students, staff and friends of London College of Communication, University of the Arts London 34 WALKING AND THINKING Danielle Agtani, Chiara Astuti, David Buckland, Anna Cennamo, Simon Costin, Tony Max Houghton Credland, David Cross, Sophie Demay, Ana Escobar, Noel Douglas, Darryl Edwards, Neil Farrin/Corbis, Martina Giulianell, Sophie Hadley, Tara Hanrahan, Jake 38 CLIMATE ENGINEERING: CAN WE Haynes, Thomas Hibbitts, Simon Hinde, Max Houghton, Wanting Huang, Human After TECHNO-FIX OUR MISTAKES? All, Imthiar Khan, IMV/istock, Ken Kirton, Brigitte Lardinois, Erlend Linklater, Sebastian Moss Rachel Littlewood, Lisa Matzi, David McCandless, Sebastian Moss, Rachael Neale, Ed Oliver, Veronika Papadopoulou, L Pettet/istock, Josh Potter, Tzortzis Rallis, 42 THE LAST WHOLE EARTH CATALOG Ria Sajit, Max Schwerdtfeger, Sarah Temple, Oswin Tickler, Diana Tleuliyeva, Various Mirjam Warg, Sean Wyatt-Livesly, Evelyne Wyss. 43 UNDERGROUND FARMS Raul Keme, farmer and cane cutter for Design Danielle Agtani BSCFA sugar cane producers, Belize Oswin Tickler, Smallfury Designs 44 THE POWER OF REASON Publishing information Max Schwerdtfeger Published by the London College of Communication, London SE1 6SB 45 CHOOSING THE FUTURE David Cross Website: artefactmagazine.com Some sugar cane farming families in Belize struggle Facebook: artefactmagazine 46 REVIEWS to support their children’s education. The Belize Sugar Twitter: artefactlcc Cane Farmers Association co-operative used their Instagram: artefactmag 48 SEEN ON CAMPUS Fairtrade Premium* to fund student grants. Over the Feedback to: [email protected] 49 EVENTS last four years, 1,474 students have benefted. 50 LAST WORD Imthiar Khan choose products that change lives fairtrade.org.uk/fortnight *The extra sum that farmers and workers receive to invest in business or community improvements Registered charity no. 1043886 Photographer: Simon Rawles 2 3 IN BRIEF What has changed CLIMATE CHANGE? IT’S HAPPENING AND WE NEED YOU! since The Cove? Time is running out. Climate change is PARTICIPATION: All UAL students are You’ve probably heard about the 23,000 happening and without a serious glob- welcome and encouraged. dolphins killed in Taiji, Japan each al plan to shift away from our prof- year. You have probably heard this it-driven, fossil-fuelled economy, our DEADLINE: Friday 27 March 2015 through the media, and the likes of existence as a species is threatened Register and send your artwork to: change.org. In fact the number has this century. [email protected] drastically fallen, to around 835, since the 2009 release of The Cove, an The climate crisis is not just a undercover documentary that revealed threat, but also an opportunity to re- In conjunction with the Campaign the slaughter to the world. design the world’s approach to the is- Against Climate Change we also want sue - one that shifts the economy away you to bring your visuals and posters While it is important to celebrate from fossil fuel-based capitalism to to a demonstration in London on March that the number fell by around 21,000, one that is more democratic and resil- 7 2015. This is what the organisation the fact that dolphins are still being ient. One that we can all share. says to expect from the demo: killed is a disgrace. The Cove also revealed how dolphins, the epitome of 2015 is a crucial year for the cli- “Following on from the tremendous happiness and freedom, are are being mate. In December, governments will success of the People’s Climate March captured and placed in dolphinariums come together in Paris at the COP 21 in September 2014, the Time to Act on for the amusement of humans. UN Climate Summit, an international Climate Change march will bring peo- conference on climate. Its aim is to ple together again on the streets of Taiji is the largest supplier of dol- chart a new course for the climate and London on March 7 2015, to demand real phins to marine parks around the world climate change. We must make our voic- change. There is no mandate for cli- with each dolphin selling for up to es heard. We know that they will not mate-wrecking business as usual. This $150,000. The Cove, created by the act unless we make them, and we can no demonstration aims to raise the pro- Oceanic Preservation Society, follows longer accept the lack of any action file of climate change. It is also in- activists, filmmakers and divers as being taken. tended to energise and strengthen the they penetrate a cove in Taiji to re- climate movement – not an end-point veal its distressing and dark secret. CALLING ALL ART STUDENTS but a stepping stone, with planning We need your posters and memes relat- throughout 2015 towards the crucial The team used hidden microphones and ed to the climate change movement, to Paris COP21 summit.” cameras to uncover how Taiji commits bolster the campaign on the streets the largest slaughter of dolphins each and on the internet throughout the KEY DATES year. The Cove is not just a work of year. investigative journalism but an un- March 7th 2015 forgettable story which has inspired COP 21 is coming at a time where we See you in the streets in London with audiences worldwide to take action. are reaching a turning point in global your poster on the Time to Act on Cli- environmental politics. Many believe mate Change demonstration. Images of chaos and fear strike you that this is the last opportunity to (http://www.campaigncc.org/TimetoAct) within the first half an hour as you mobilise the climate movement and in- experience the capture of the dolphins spire a new environmental resistance September 2015 in this tiny cove in Taiji. You see across the world. Workshops at LCC to mass-produce the dolphins trapped in nets, trying to best posters. escape, and five humans restraining We want to make this debate bold, vis- a dolphin while it thrashes in fear. ible and expansive, within both our December 2015 You soon begin to realise that this is physical and digital spaces. Visual See you in the streets in Paris with only the tip of the iceberg. communication can be the first step your posters outside the Cop21 meeting to start this discussion, engage with (http://www.cop21paris.org) LONDON’S NATURAL BEAUTY The boats take the dolphins, which audiences, represent networks and sup- weren’t selected to be shipped abroad, port direct action for climate. Read more and receive updates at: Oc- Photographer Evelyne Wyss takes metic- by all the media and advertisements into a secret cove. They are slaugh- cupy Design UK - http://occupydesign. ulous close-ups of plants, flowers and that surround us” tered and sold for their meat. This is Occupy Design UK is launching the COP org.uk/ leaves to reveal, in her words, ʻsome- the footage the team wanted to get, to 21 Call for Graphics campaign, aiming thing inspiring, a surprise, something She argues that conventional ideas of prove what was being kept secret in to create and gather visuals in re- Words: Tony Credland I hadn’t realised, was there.’ natural beauty – a blood-orange sunset the whaling industry in Japan sponse to the issue of climate change ot a bouquet of roses – have lost much and support the climate movement. Evelyne is a first-year advertising of their impact through repetition. The Cove also explores whaling legis- Later in the year we will be inviting student at London College of Communi- Instead, she looks for beauty in the lation, the history of dolphin per- UAL students to join us in a workshop cation and her work questions conven- often neglected natural world of the formers as well as context to explain at LCC to mass develop and produce our tional ideas of beauty. city streets. how the issue in Taiji exists today.