Ellie Harrison

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2014
Work Lectures

Department for Business, Innovation & Skills

Talk by Ellie Harrison to students at Funen Art Academy in Denmark, presenting the ideas behind the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills – a title borrowed from the UK Government for her studio during her six-week residency at the academy.

Further Reference

  • Audio Archive / Podcast

Other Lectures

  • Art, Activism & the Absurdities of Economic Growth
  • The Glasgow Effect
  • The Glasgow Effect: A Discussion
  • The RRAAF Report Launch Event
  • The RRAAF Debate
  • Sustainability in Practice
  • Ethics: Extremism & Compromise
  • Transmediale: Capture All
  • Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • In conversation with Ewa Jasiewicz
  • Time & Motion: Redefining Working Life
  • For the Love of It
  • What If… Artists Redesigned Economics?
  • 21 Revolutions
  • The Story
  • How to Reconcile the Careerist Mentality with our Impending Doom
  • One Minute Manifesto
  • Hedonism vs. Asceticism: A control freak’s guide to the MFA
  • This is… Ellie Harrison
  • Data Visualisation
  • In conversation with Sally O’Reilly
  • Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector
  • The Live Lecture

Tags

  • innovation
  • international
  • lecture
  • residency

News

Ellie Harrison is an artist & activist based in Glasgow (UK). In 2023 she won the Stephen Fry Public Engagement Award for her ‘Bus Regulation: The Musical’ Trilogy in Greater Manchester, Strathclyde & Merseyside (2019 – 2023).
In 2021 the Second Edition of Harrison’s book The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint was launched at the UN Habitat’s Innovate4Cities conference to mark the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, and chosen by the Ecologist for the Resurgence Book Club. Her Early Warning Signs were also exhibited at Glasgow’s Mitchell Library during COP26 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the project.
Harrison’s Vending Machine continues to feature in the 😹 LMAO exhibition exploring humour in data visualisation at the Open Data Institute in London.

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Artist, activist & author of 'The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint' 📚

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  • ellie@ellieharrison.com

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