Relate North 2021: Everyday Extremes

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Relate North 2021: Everyday Extremes

Landscape in Pain: Shetland’s industrial scale wind farm and solastalgia

This presentation for Relate North 2021 research symposium considers the body of artwork, Landscape in Pain, as a means to ask how we achieve balance between sustainable development and care for the communities rich in resources, such as wind and tidal power, being mined by multi-national corporations across the northern region. Landscape in Pain is a response to the distress, solastalgia (Albrecht), produced by the environmental change to our environment caused by the development of the Viking Energy Wind Farm. This industrial scale wind farm will cover most of Shetland’s north central mainland and be visible from the majority of the archipelago. With 103 wind turbines, it will become one of the largest onshore wind farms in Europe. While Shetland is anxious to tackle the climate crisis, nonetheless many believe this project is not a viable, green, solution. Local objections to the wind farm include its disproportionate scale, destruction of peatlands and human impact.

Period	11 Nov 2021
Event type	Conference
Location	Tomsk, Russian FederationShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International