FERGUS WALKER

We all have an innate ability, as a tool-making people, to make ourselves at home wherever we find ourselves - whether that be on a remote island, in tundra, in rainforest or in the high-rise inner city. This is a resourcefulness that comes with careful listening and observation of our environment, such that we come to understand our interaction with community and place. However as a species we face a crisis as we come to the painful collective realisation that we have built an environment of so many conflicting layers that we struggle to become skilful in ecology (the Greek root of which means ‘study of one's dwelling place') and we are destroying many parts of our environment even as we think we are solving problems or making progress.

Primary location: Edinburgh United Kingdom