Sustainability Stories - Dundee Meeting

DUO (Dundee Urban Orchard) – where art and ecology meet

Recipient of QPSW Sustainability Grant 2011

DUO celebrates and raises awareness of sustainability through the planting and tending of small-scale orchards in and around Dundee. Orchards – their collective histories, grubbing up, and replanting – tell a local and global story about our relationship to nature, place, food, and community.

DUO utilises the creative arts as a medium for social engagement, community empowerment and ecological awareness. We invite Quakers (and other community groups) to widen their understanding of, and engagement with, contemporary art, as a vehicle for reflecting on the way we live in the 21st Century.
DUO furthers Quaker witness to sustainability by providing a model for socially engaged and ecological art practices; one that can be sensitively grafted onto other urban contexts, whilst also generating first-hand experiences and arresting images for Quaker outreach.

DUO is the collaborative practice of Jonathan Baxter and Sarah Gittins.

By Jonathan Baxter