Blissful rain and the Welly Walk, meet Alice Stevens.

In this episode we chat to Alice Stevens, creator of welly walks.
These are bright yellow tech wellies that people can walk around
in. Depending on the weather, the wellies would say different
poems, sensing the weather with low tech barometric sensors to
understand the weather at the moment. She is also the creator of
rain trail which uses paint to reveal illustrations that would
only appear if it rained. She has many more projects in the
pipeline such as ‘blissful rain, isinit?’, a dialogue around
using positive language around rain.


Alice is a Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design at Arts University
Bournemouth and is currently doing a PhD in the intersection of
British Weather, Creative Practice and Ecolinguisitics. This is a
field of language that studies that explores the relationship
between language, human societies, and the natural environment
and says that if we hide away in building we lose connection and
conversation about the weather and climate.


She leaves us with some poignant thoughts about the importance of
using positive language around the environment, for example
talking about 'blissful rain'. She is working on a new
installation ‘WeatherKin’ that will be used in bus shelters that
shares other people positive memories of rains.


You can find Alice on LinkedIn
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/alice-stevens-222667a0.


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