Kiera Chapman
Nature writer, research fellow University of Oxford, Co-I Planning for Nature kierachapman.com / www.planningfornature.org
- I don't think there has been a single day in 2026 when it hasn't rained in Sheffield, and the vast majority of days it has done nothing but rain. It is like living in a literally benighted atmosphere of murk. 😠☔🌧️💧
- This is an author pairing I didn't see coming. Apparently anarchist planner Colin Ward and crime writer Ruth Rendell were great mates and lived close to each other in Suffolk. And they produced this together.
- I'm hoping some of you will enjoy this beautiful and very short film - about development, harms to nature and OTTER-DETECTING DOGS! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rg6...
- Read a letter from one of Noam Chomsky's coauthors and it literally says "He was wrong to hang out with Epstein and he was wrong to say the women who were his victims were hysterics, but it's probably his wife's fault." Seriously.
- I'm on my way to Cardiff to give a talk and it's SUNNY! ☀️ Wales is looking stunning. JOY!!
- The thing that worries me about mockups like this is that there is always a politics to the aesthetic. We talk a lot about the destructive economic form of AI art, and its appalling environmental resources consumption, but we don't always link that to content.
- Top tip: to avoid having the British Union of Fascists logo on the side of your mock-up train, don't use horrible text-to-image AI slop instead of actual designers and artists. www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...
- After I had a hysterectomy I had to stop watching Schitt's Creek because Catherine O'Hara made me laugh so hard that I was in danger of having some kind of medical incident. She was a genius. 💔
- Women! Do you understand that some ways of designing urban areas can make spaces less safe for women? Yes? Then you understand more about planning than the government ministry responsible. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Kiera ChapmanRare butterflies bounce back after landowners in Wales cut back on flailing hedges
- Today I'm in Oxford for a workshop with the IPBES on transformative change for nature recovery. Hoping we can get beyond uncritical takes on "nature finance" and "market-based solutions". 🌱🌿🍀🌳
- England: "There is no way we can mandate swift bricks in every new build because errrrr ummmm <checks notes> developers will complain?" Scotland: "Hold my beer". www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Just had a meeting about our exhibition, Plain Things Wonders, which will be at the Weston in Oxford in the autumn, and I have decided to stuff a case with straw things 🍞 The history of wheat is a fascinating one.
- I am squeeing with delight at the cover for our new book! It's SO SHINY! Out in August.
