An essay on Caribbean cosmology, rivers, hurricanes and healing in response to an ethnobotanical art series by Dora Papp. Download

[Cover image credit ©Dora Papp] Surviving Storms | CCC team members have been busy working to establish the ti kai collective a group of Dominican architects, vernacular heritage campaigners and architecture students who will undertake the first ever survey of Dominica’s distinctive ti kais (‘small houses’). The collective is made up of Dr Adom Philogene Heron (CCC lead researcher), Olive …

Led (via video link) by Dr Ricardo Leizaola, a Venezuelan visual ethnographer based at Goldsmiths University of London, these sessions encouraged the interns to begin to see and imagine the world through the medium of film. During the workshops Ricardo presented the camera and camera phone as a medium to capture scenes, shots & sound; offering techniques for beginning and …

In this second session Adom and Annabel introduced the interns to varied approaches of interviewing and the interns experimented with various interview styles and ways of asking questions. Download Presentation

In this session Adom and Annabel met with the Create Caribbean intern cohort for 2020/21, shared a groundwork for the project and invited the interns to consider what ‘resilience from below’ might mean in local terms. Download Presentation

Black Geographers were joined by Dr Adom Philogene Heron and Gabrielle Abraham to talk about Caribbean Cyclone Cartography. The project is working to map cyclone resilience in Dominica, and doing so in a way that represents not only the physical landscape of the island, but also the local histories and knowledge which inform people’s understanding of risks and their responses …

This is a conversation between Adom Philogene Heron, a lecturer in the Goldsmiths Anthropology Department and Schuyler Espirit, the founder of Create Caribbean and Programme Officer at the University of the West Indies Open Campus in Antigua & Barbuda. They are co-investigators on the ESRC funded project Caribbean Cyclone Cartographies. In this interview they discuss rooting and resilience in Dominica, touching …

  As a project team we draw heavily on the work of Dr Lennox Honychurch, Dominica’s foremost public scholar, who has written and presented widely on Dominica’s history, architecture, maroons and distinctive creole and indigenous culture. Over the years Lennox has distinguished himself is an anthropologist whose rich historical knowledge Dominicans repeatedly turn to in bid ground their present. Here …