Sheffield Environmental Movement

Maxwell will be one of the keynote speakers at “Whose Landscapes?” a national symposium organised by the University of Reading on Tuesday March 30th

Whose Landscapes?: a virtual interdisciplinary symposium hosted by the Changing Landscapes Research Network – its a free online symposium any anyone can attend.

The symposium will explore diversity, in terms of both the extent of accessibility for different groups of people and landscape decision-making, with an aim to develop conversations and build interdisciplinary bridges. The focus of the Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives project is to explore biographical and narrative perspectives to the landscape and this approach has the potential to open up our understanding of landscape to a wider range of voices.

Please register for the symposium via Eventbrite.

An Interview with Maxwell – The Times Newspaper.

On 25th February a news article featuring and interview with SEM’s Maxwell Ayamba was published in The Times Newspaper.

Written by the newspapers’ Chief News Correspondent David Brown, the article was a response to a previous days article about Jurassic Coast beachgoers last summer after the last UK lockdown had ended.

Maxwell, SEM Project Coordinator and Founder, spoke about ‘white privileged spaces’ the lack of cultural understanding and as he responded to reporting which blamed ‘culturally diverse’ and ‘urban’ crowds for littering and vandalism on a Dorset beach.

You can read the article on The Times Newspaper website here.

Maxwell will be a special guest speaker at Destination: UK – an online event organised by the environmental charity Flight Free UK.

The online event starts on Thursday 25 Feb 2021 at 19:30 GMT on Eventbrite. You can book a place here.

Flight Free UK campaigns for people to make a ‘flight free year’ pledge which asks people to stay grounded for a year in order to reduce their carbon footprint, re-discover the joys of overland travel, and begin to shift the social norm away from aviation.

“Flying less is one of the best ways to reduce your carbon footprint. Could you take a flight free year?”