Dr David Haley

A Drop In The Ocean: A Trace Of Life
A research proposal in the form of an artwork (film and gallery installation) to eventually develop a live artwork that follows the course of a bacterium (named Ulysses Species Nova) from an English river as it completes a trans-Atlantic water/weather cycle - a 'homebecoming'. Water sampling to seek the route of this bacterium’s Odyssey, will question the relationship between climate change and evolution. [More Details...]

A Walk on the Wild Side
Initiated in 2004 and in receipt of £1,000 ACENW ‘seed funding’, this project for URBIS (2007) will promote: a) ‘transformative reflective practice’ (Habermas) as an educational core skill, b) the development of biodiversity corridors and c) encourage community participation in spatial planning. The partners for this ecological arts programme include site-sight, GMPTE, the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology at Lancaster University, the Mersey Basin Trust and Landlife the National Wildflower Trust. [More Details...]

Drawing on Life
The Drawing on Life research project is a synthesis of traditional life drawing, ecology and evolutionary theory. Available to all MIRIAD students, I piloted this project through November/ December 2004 and will deliver a further course as a postgraduate ‘option’ in 2006. [More Details...]

Greenhouse Britain: Losing Ground, Gaining Wisdom
Harrison Studio & Associates (Britain). "As the waters rise gracefully, how may we withdraw gracefully"? Initially supported by DEFRA's Climate Challenge Fund and currently in negotiation with other funders and six venues for a simultaneous Mainland Britain launch in 2008. [More Details...]

In the Memory of Water
In collaboration with CLEAR: Centre for Landscape & Environmental Arts Research, Cumbria Institute for the Arts and the INTERFACE research centre at the University of Ulster on a three-way research project to synthesises different approaches to art, research and the landscape. . [More Details...]

River Dialogues: The Long Story
Working with Mid-Pennine Arts to develop a programme of ecological arts and research projects for the ‘Pennine Lancashire’ district,.. [More Details...]

Rivers From The Future
Knowledge gathered in the form of an expanded pattern book/journal will consider North West England's most valuable resource (bar none), freshwater, and how it may contribute to the creation of a 'New Suburbia'. This project is MIRIAD’s contribution to Confluence: water as a determinant of culture, a research programme in collaboration with INTERFACE (University of Ulster) and CLEAR (Cumbria Institute for the Arts). [More Details...]

Tides Turn, Waters Dance
Project being developed with artist, Wu Mali and the Bamboo Culture Project, Taipei. It considers how Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China may 'make time' as sea levels rise. [More Details...]