page_title: Dougald Hine
section_title: Projects
hierarchical_section_title: Dougald Hine / Projects
caption_attribution_description: English: Original video caption: "In 2009, Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine published Uncivilisation: The Dark Mountain Manifesto, a challenge to face the deep cultural roots of today's crises and a call for new stories for an age of climate change and ecocide. Today, the Dark Mountain Project has grown into an international network of writers and thinkers, artists and musicians, organising festivals, events and exhibitions, centred on the Dark Mountain journal. In this public conversation, Dougald and Paul will discuss some of the lessons they have learned from this journey and the questions it has thrown up: where are the new stories that could help us make sense of our situation? How do we live with ecological grief? What is the role of art and culture in a time of unravelling? What happens when we create a space in which we can talk about the darkness and doubt that we feel in the light of ecological crisis? And what does it mean to find 'the hope beyond hope' which the manifesto speaks of?"
context_page_description: Dougald Hine is a British author, editor and social entrepreneur. He co-founded School of Everything and The Dark Mountain Project, of which he is Director at Large. In 2011, he was named one of Britain's 50 top radicals by NESTA.
  Hine went to school in Darlington, and studied English literature at Oxford University. Following his first degree, he studied broadcast journalism at Sheffield Hallam and then spent four years as a BBC journalist. From 2005 to 2006, he lived and worked for a year in China's turbulent and far western province of Xinjiang. He has been involved a number of projects and initiatives. Hine noticed two blog posts written by Paul Kingsnorth in 2007, one a rant in which Kingsnorth announced his abandonment of journalism, and one in which Kingsnorth expressed satisfaction at the failure of an international climate change meeting. Hine and Kingsnorth exchanged emails, and in 2008 they met in a pub. Following their exchanges and meetings, they published Uncivilization: The Dark Mountain Manifesto in 2009.
  In 2012, he left London for Sweden. Since 2015, he has been working with Riksteatern, the National Touring Theatre of Sweden.
context_section_description: Pick Me Up (2004-6) was a weekly email newsletter intending to inspire people, through storytelling, to do something other than check their e-mail on Friday afternoons.
  The London School of Art & Business (2006). The group involved went on to found School of Everything.
  School of Everything was an internet startup intended to connect people who can teach with people who want to learn.
  The Dark Mountain Project (2009–present), has been one of his most important projects involving a manifesto, an extensive website, an annual festival run in collaboration with Paul Kingsnorth. The Dark Mountain project has resulted in three anthologies co-edited by Hine.
  The Spacemakers Agency (2009–present) was the first project in the re-development of Brixton Village, and there have been a number of related projects since including the West Norwood Festival.
  New Public Thinking (2010–present), a blog site which created a new space for public discourse and analysis aiming for a "better public discourse", resulting in an anthology of writings "Despatches from the Invisible Revolution".
caption: Kingsnorth and Hine providing a five-year retrospective on the Dark Mountain Project
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