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Interwoven - Why Craft, Heritage, and Collaboration Matter More Than Ever

"This article by University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Swansea College of Art senior lecturer Catherine Brown, a maker and long‑standing advocate for craft education, offers an intimate insight into the Interwoven project’s process and purpose, capturing how weaving, heritage materials, and interdisciplinary collaboration come together in meaningful and often unexpected ways. Catherine’s perspective not only grounds the project in lived experience but also illuminates why the act of making, and the stories embedded within it, continue to matter in contemporary Wales."

Gower Cockle Gatherers

Delighted to share this special film, ‘Gower Cockle Gatherers ’ on Saint David’s Day, filmed by Andy Davies, made in collaboration with Liz Williams, with a special introduction by Gareth Thomas, BRIDGES, UWTSD.

The Interwoven Project

The Interwoven Project explores how the Arts and Humanities can contribute to addressing contemporary ecological and environmental challenges. Supported by the Catalyst Fund, Interwoven brings together researchers from Coastal TALES with staff and students from WISA, working in collaboration with Clare Revera of Welsh Baskets. The project’s central aim is to co-design a sustainable heritage basket for Coastal TALES’ societal partner, Câr-y-Môr, as an environmentally friendly alternative to the plastic bags and baskets currently used for shellfish and seaweed harvesting.

Highlighting Publications from 2025: The environmental and economic legacy of Wales' industrial past. Coastal Tales: Kilvey Hill (Swansea) and the Teifi as Projects of Contentious Urban Woodland and River Restoration

We begin this series focussing on publications from 2025, with a paper written by Luci Attala, Louise Steel, and Gareth Thomas, BRIDGES IPO and UK Hub, UWTSD, and Nigel Robins: Geographer and specialist in Welsh industrial history. In a significant submission to the UK Parliament, a transdisciplinary team challenge traditional "top-down" approaches to environmental restoration, arguing that the true value of Wales’ industrial legacy lies as much in its "intangible" culture as in its ecology; demonstrating the value of local, historical, and cultural stories to foster climate change adaptation and coastal resilience. The paper was submitted as written evidence for the Welsh Affairs Committee of the UK Parliament, published 19 March 2025.

For the Love of the Sea: Technocratic Environmentalism and the Struggle to Sustain Community-Led Aquaculture

This article argues that sustainability governance in small-scale regenerative aquaculture arises less from formal regulation than from the relational, ethical, and temporal labour of practitioners. Based on an ethnographic study of Câr-y-Môr, Wales’s first community-owned regenerative ocean farm, the research combines over 250 h of participant observation, 25 interviews, and document analysis with transdisciplinary humanities-informed sustainability science (THiSS).

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