Laura Pottinger

Embroidery on a deep orange square of cotton fabric. In the centre, a circle of pattered yellow and white fabric; from top left clockwise there are embroidered stitched in the shape of a bird, a blue feathery plant, a curling wave, a broken leaf, a white flower and a star

A deep orange coloured square of cotton fabric showing the back of embroidered stitches and long tails of cotton threads arranged in a spiralling formation around the square.

Beautiful square for #StitchAssemblyRGS25 featuring detail of key moments across the #RGS-IBG conference.

'The back with dangling “spiralling” threads signifies the invisible interconnections and on-going (future) weaving of seen and unseen'.

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@alisonjeffers.bsky.social

Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent

A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Sophy King, Natalie Linney, Henry McPherson, Kayley Pearson, Joey Pickard, Arianna Tozzi & Rachel Webster (3/3)

With @aurorafredriksen.bsky.social @em-shuttleworth.bsky.social @jpritson.bsky.social @draflint.bsky.social Anke Bernau, Abi Bleach, Amanda Cobbett, Khushi Dodhia, Antony Hall, Ingrid Hanson, Oliver Hughes... (2/3)

Embroidered moss made from a selection of textural green fabrics attached to plain cotton fabric stretched across an embroidery hoop. A brown label with the handwritten words 'laboratory incident' is attached to the fabric.

How might stitching help us get to know mosses on more intimate terms?

New coauthored paper from the MossWorlds project on stitching sphagnum moss and doing creative, interdisciplinary work in geography labs: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@uomcreativemcr.bsky.social (1/3)

Stitched quilt square - a central brown square overlaid with fabric and stitches forming an eye shape in the centre, a patterned fabric leaf shape at the top point, and narrow ribbons of fabric in beige, green and blue tones attached to the bottom point.

'Thank you very much for bringing this idea to the conference! It was so creative and fun! Sorry I went a bit out of the square shape.'

Stitched quilt square - rectangles of cotton and linen fabric in shades of pink, yellow and cream overlaid and attached with a running stitch and embroidered star or flower shape in the centre

'My daughter (thirteen years old) and I stitched up a small piece together. Thank you for conducting this project of kindness and creativity.'

Stitched quilt square - overlaid fabrics in warm orange and beige tones, with some frayed edges. A variety of different embroidery stitches, including broken lines that look like river tributaries or road networks. Blanket stiches around the edges of the quilt square

'My piece traces the geography of my learning journey, and my journeys across the country (...) The blanket stitch which runs along the top of the piece is the 'golden thread' which brings/holds it all together (which I am still seeking within my own research project : )'

Stitched quilt square 'Unhomely Home' - a muted pink background with three strips of fabric in grey and salmon tones overlaid at right angles in a cross hatch formation

Stitched quilt square 'Homely Home' - a dark grey background fabric overlaid with an orange circle (top left), a tall yellow triangle (right), a band of frayed blue denim (bottom), attached date palm fibres (left) and stitching in beige threads, giving the effect of a sun in a dark sky over water

'Homely home/Unhomely home.
Forgetting, remembering, designing, creating. Boring transformation making homes unhomes. Missing and protecting homely homes. Concrete jungle, generic spaces. Turned into dust. Lakes, woods, heaven on Earth. In my mind.'

Two overlapping stitched squares. The bottom has dark grey and yellow small shapes stitched onto a salmon pink background, and the top features an embroidered raised fist with the text AC2025 RGS Black Teacher. A small yellow flower sits alongside the stitched piece.

More stitched squares shared by remote participants in our #StitchAssemblyRGS25 session at #RGS-IBG conference last month. Big thank you to all who took part & shared their reflections!
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A comic style illustration of a large cat jumping out of a cardboard box that reads 'methods' on its side, towards a person sitting in a wheelchair who looks surprised. Text reads 'research can be lively, messy and chaotic!' Papers, pens and pencils are also flying out of the box.

Featuring illustrations from the brilliant Jack Brougham.
Open access article here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Excited to see our new M4C paper out in a brand new journal #JCRM

'Creative reflections on research practice: insights from the Methods Zoo'

Exploring methods-as-animals with @amycbarron.bsky.social @msrodekirchen.bsky.social @drallyb.bsky.social @smhall.bsky.social @profalibrowne.bsky.social

"The destruction of Palestine’s seed banks reveals ecocide as a weapon of temporal control — a strategy for extending genocide beyond the present moment into an undeterminable future."

My RGS highlight was the Stich Assembly workshop. This was my attempt to kick off the Watershed Moments project with @riverdonproject.bsky.social. Can you tell what it is?
#StitchAssemblyRGS25

Love this 😍 thanks so much for joining the workshop!!

Huge thanks to the #StitchAssemblyRGS25, this was so inspiring! Some short keywords this piece embodies:
#unfinished
#together
#outofthebox
#(un)directionality
#heartening
#multiplepaths

I look forward to seeing the joined quilt!❤️Hoping to reflect a bit of this spirit in the MobileWorlds Festival

This was so much fun! Making was a creative act of selfcare today and here is my square/map. Thank you Laura and co.

My output inspired by what I believe the vision & values of my work in creating a #GoodFoodNation to 'build a long table not a higher wall'

A table with people connecting and eating around it together. A space of equity.

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Loving the creativity theme of this years conference.

Encouraging us all to pause, reflect & challenge ourselves.

Not a natural stitcher but loved participating in #StitchAssemblyRGS25 this morning!

Birmingham campus tower in the sun. No people are around and the green trees and plants look peaceful.

Hands reaching for differently dyed and shaped material which are scattered across a white table, holding scissors.

Hands holding differently dyed and shaped material which are scattered across a white table. There is also some thread and a needle on the table, and a small pair of scissors.

✨ The Stitch Assembly is live at #RGSIBG2025 in Birmingham!

Whether you’re here in person or joining from afar, we want you to feel part of our creative community.

Find your moment to stitch & share! #StitchAssemblyRGS25 💫

🧵 A few snapshots so far 👇

Just getting started on my stitched contribution to RGS 2025. Is this another way of connecting #arts and #research, #PhysicalMobility and #DigitalMibility? Thank you for this beautiful initiative! #RGSIBG2025 #StitchAssemblyRGS25 🧵🪡

#mobileworlds #thirdcultures

#StitchAssemblyRGS25 ❤️

What our table produced in an hour: five little stitched squares

Little map-style stitched square

Creative stitching workshop at the RGS. Geography meets craft in a fabulous moment of sharing time & space. #StitchAssemblyRGS25

✨ Looking forward to the #RGSIBG2025!

Join us for the Stitch Assembly 🧵
⏰ Thursday, 11:10 - 12:50 (BST)
📍 Muirhead Building, Room 109

A creative space to stitch, reflect & connect - in Birmingham and beyond! 💫 #Creativity #StitchAssemblyRGS25

scraps of fabric and threads in a variety of colours

Prepping materials 🧵🏵️🧶for Stitch Assembly at #RGS-IBG

Follow #StitchAssemblyRGS25 for updates, reflections & stitched quilt squares from remote participants & our in-person session.

If you’re in Birmingham we’d love to see you there!
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🌍Are you attending the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Birmingham later this month?🌏

🚌You can request free bus travel around Birmingham during the week of the conference - just complete the form below by Sunday 17th August.

Geographers please share!

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agrowingculture 3 hours ago 2/5 This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron. Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept. This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

More. Of. This.

Solidarity with Greek dock workers.

This is EXACTLY what we need more of.

It's us, the working class of the world, that will stop this genocide. No one else.

Keep going! ✊🏽🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

#FreePalestine🇵🇸