Tag: Madelvic House

William Speirs Bruce: the life and times of a Polar explorer

Granton Hub History Group free talk

Granton:hub are holding a talk about Granton’s polar explorer William Speirs Bruce on 28th March 2018 at Madelvic House, Granton. Did you know he co-founded Edinburgh Zoo?

For this and more interesting facts visit the website at grantonhub.org and you can book your free Eventbrite ticket here .

Take three girls: LIFT exhibition

Three local women staged an exhibition of their artwork at Madelvic House on Saturday. Dee, Johan and are all involved in the Low Income Families Together (LIFT) project based at Muirhouse Millennium Community Centre.

The event proved to be a great success, and the women plan to follow it up with another exhibition in the Millennium Centre later this month.

Pictures: Pauline Nicol Bowie

Boswall Parkway: Re-Imagine Your Street

BIODIVERSITY WORKSHOPS

Thursday 1st February

3pm – 5.30pm or 6pm – 8:30pm

Granton United Church, Boswall Parkway

The Workshop will ask:

  • How might Boswall Parkway look in the future?
  • what challenges and opportunities might there be?

Funded by Adaptation Scotland, the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh is running this pilot project to consult with communities about solutions to climate change and adaptation.

Following an open application process, the Re-Imagining Your Gardens & Streets project was chosen to be our latest Community Engagement Pioneer Project. Jointly ran by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University, the project will investigate a range of community engagement techniques by running outreach events focused on generating ideas to transform streets in the Granton area into well adapted community spaces.

The design of streets and gardens can significantly influence an areas resilience to climate impacts, with large amounts of paved areas contributing to surface water flooding, reduced biodiversity and urban heat island effect. These spaces are also literally on our doorsteps, and represent a tangible and immediate route in to talking to communities about wider adaptation themes.

However, community improvements are best driven by community aspiration, so this project will focus on first introducing the broad concept of creating well adapted streets and gardens, and then facilitate a community conversation to find the ideal interpretation for this unique area.

We will be working with the creative practitioners from the Museum of Future Now to help community members imagine this aspiration future and the ideas they come up with will be turned into illustrations for display in the community hub.

Alongside this, a neighbourhood adaptation planning tool will be created to help other areas explore the possible routes to creating well adapted gardens and streets. This work will compliment other initiatives ongoing in the city, including Edinburgh Living Landscape and Edinburgh Adapts.

There’s still time to book your workshop place: contact Leone on 0791 873 6481 or email lalexander@rgbe.org.uk

 

 

From the Past to the Future: first Madelvic Car Rally

Electric car rally jointly hosted by the History Hub at Madelvic House and the Electric Vehicles Association

10 OCT back to the future

The first all electric Madelvic Car Rally – which will hopefully be an annual event – takes place this Sunday 22nd October 2017 from 11am to 12.30pm.  Continue reading From the Past to the Future: first Madelvic Car Rally