Mapping a Counter Narrative to Growth, Textile, Audio and Living Sculpture, Dimensions and Duration Variable, 2024

Mapping a Counter Narrative to Growth [2024]

What does an alternative to growth look like? Drawing together archive research and interviews with local activists, Mapping a Counter Narrative to Growth gently reveals how different values have shaped Darlington’s environment and how climate action can positively shape its future. Within the textile collage, archive material sit alongside maps of different sites of transition encountered across Hot Contents.

Interviews

Paul Foster, Stop Incineration North East (SINE), 10 minutes

Paul describes how waste incineration is driving down our recycling rates and shares how Stop Incineration North East (SINE) is campaigning against the Tees Valley Energy Recovery Facility and the rash of incinerators proposed for our region. Pictured alongside is a mock incinerator built by SINE with Darlington Friends of the Earth, which is used to bring attention to the issues of incineration at events across the North East.

Michael and Angela Green, Heritage Parkland Network, 11 minutes

​Michael and Angela share the journey that they and fellow local residents have taken to safeguard the Historic Blackwell Parkland in Darlington from development. The accompanying document, produced by the Heritage Parkland Network, captures how local residents navigated the consultation process to revise, shape and develop a positive outcome for the Historic Blackwell Parkland in Darlington Borough Council’s Local Plan.

Sally Bunce, 11 minutes

Speaking from Saltburn Beach, Sally Bunce shares how she and local residents, researchers and activists are responding to mass marine die-offs along the North East coast of England following the dredging of the River Tees. Pictured alongside are two images captured by Grecko Indie Media showing the aftermath of a mass die-off of marine life on Saltburn Beach.

Please note, this interview contains descriptions of loss of marine life which may cause distress.