Region: Tayside, Forth Valley & Fife

Scotland’s traditional buildings must be carefully assessed and appropriately retrofitted to mitigate the potential damage of climate change to their historic fabric and cultural significance.

Join us as we delve into aspects of climate change policy, explore theoretical and practical solutions that are making a difference, and discuss how we can protect Scotland’s assets for the future.

A networking lunch will provide you with the opportunity to continue discussions and explore the Engine Shed.

Learning outcomes

You will:

1. Understand the emerging threats to Scotland’s historic built environment stemming from increased rainfall, increasing temperatures, and rising sea levels.
2. Learn about how HES (and Scotland as a whole) aims to combat the immediate effects of climate change at both policy and practical levels.
3. Identify the most immediate and damaging ways Scotland’s traditional buildings are affected by a changing climate and the best measures to be taken to address this challenge.

Who should attend?

We encourage graduates, heritage professionals and building practitioners from all disciplines interested in developing their knowledge and practice in traditional buildings to consider attending. We welcome anyone responsible for a traditional building or with an interest in the broader aspects of building conservation in Scotland.

Additional Information

Historic Scotland Members can claim 10% discount using the promo code HSMember Please bring your membership card with you on the day.

Visit the Engine Shed website for more information about getting to the Engine Shed in Stirling. https://www.engineshed.scot/visit/

LINK and our members exist to act on behalf of all our members – those members of the public who join our member bodies – and on behalf of future generations. We are communities of interest for Scotland’s environment. However, there is an emergent gap in how we work with local communities of place. How we do that is the subject of the 2023 Congress.

Recent environmental legislative proposals, including HPMAs, have been hijacked by industry and others, who have been much more effective at communicating with local communities of place and who hear less from us, as communities of interest. If we are to make headway on those environmental policies that we know will restore and conserve Scotland’s environment for people today and in the future, working with communities of place is going to be vital in achieving success.

In the afternoon session, we have two keynote talks from other networks, Community Land Scotland and Coastal Community Network, whose members are communities of place. This is followed by a choice of three workshop presentations led by LINK member bodies and others, themed around working with communities of place and exploring successes, lessons learnt and opportunities for collaboration. We will discover and discuss ways of working with local communities and be inspired to take new approaches. We will also explore opportunities for funded projects to work with communities of place and future environmentalists. You will be able to choose your workshop on arrival.

Workshop 1: Mike Daniels, Head of Policy and Kevin Lelland, Director of Development and

Workshop 2: Elouise Dalziel, Living Seas Policy & Engagement Officer: Supporting community voices in marine policy

Workshop 3: Helen McLachlan, Head of Marine Policy RSPB Scotland with Julie Stoneman, Saving Scotland’s Rainforest Project Manager Changing the marine conversation and learning from experience – placing coastal stakeholders at the heart of enhanced marine protections.

During the afternoon, Leigh, our Nature for All EDI Officer and colleagues from Ethnic Minority Environmental Network will be on hand to answer any queries relating to EDI or about the project.

In the evening, we’ll hear from Dr Richard Dixon, one of LINK’s Honorary Fellows, who will speak to us over dinner, with his experience of achieving policy change and the tactics that work, including engaging local communities and amplifying their voices. You will receive a form about your menu choices, and any access requirements, by email.

What is the film about?

Can one footprint imprint on our collective consciousness and create change?

A walk, a pilgrimage, an odyssey for the planet. Five hundred miles from London to Glasgow COP26: Eight weeks, 56 days and more than 56 host organisations, over a thousand walkers and thirty rolls of 16mm celluloid film.

The Camino to COP26 was a people’s walk carrying a message of love, hope, grief, fear, and connection with the natural world to leaders deciding on the future of our climate. Filmmaker Benjamin Wigley walked with the group, who became known as ‘Caministas’, filming their experiences and capturing the sense of pilgrimage on this emotional and purposeful journey. More than a thousand walkers, aged from eight to 80 plus, joined the Camino for a few hours, a day or more, or completed the entire route to Glasgow.

We are screening this film to coincide with COP28, which is taking place in Dubai from Thursday 30 November until Tuesday 12 December 2023.

Duration, release date and languages

The film screening will run for around 60 minutes and will be followed by discussion and networking. This film was released in 2022 and is in English. The film will be presented with descriptive subtitles (aka captions).

Refreshments

Tea, coffee and biscuits will be available during the screening and the discussion. Oh and popcorn, of course! However no evening meal will be provided so please make sure you have a meal before or after you attend, if required.

Travel & Accessibility Info

The film screening will take place at Colinsburgh Town Hall, B942, Colinsburgh, Fife, KY9 1LN. The Hall is fully accessible to wheelchair users. There are no steps or ramps. There is a disabled toilet.

The 95 bus runs hourly, with the bus stopping outside, here is the link to the timetable:

https://tiscon-maps-stagecoachbus.s3.amazonaws.com/Timetables/East Scotland/Fife/ESCOT_Special_Fife_95_395.pdf

There are two or three car parking spaces at the hall, with more space to park available on the road.

About Take One Action

This film screening is delivered in partnership with Take One Action, which is the UK’s leading global action cinema project. Take One Action presents world-changing films and nurtures communal exploration of the stories, ideas and questions at the heart of positive social change.