Walking in the Void
Dougald Hine
1st April, 2021
At the climax of an exhibition inspired by the Dark Mountain manifesto, Dougald Hine wonders about the role of artistic ritual in facing the end of the world as we have known it.
Dougald Hine
Dougald Hine is co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project. In 2007, he responded to a blog post by Paul Kingsnorth and out of the conversations that followed, the two of them wrote Uncivilisation: The Dark Mountain Manifesto. He has held a variety of roles within the project, including as an editor of Issues 1 to 5. In 2017, he returned to the editor's seat for Issue 12: SANCTUM, a special issue on the theme of 'the sacred'.
Aside from Dark Mountain, Dougald has been responsible for the creation of a series of organisations, from School of Everything (a web-startup inspired by the work of Ivan Illich) to Spacemakers (a regeneration agency that grew from a meetup group he started in London in 2009).
His latest project is a school called HOME, founded in 2018 with his partner Anna Björkman. The school is based in Västmanland, Sweden.
My Posts
The Vital Compass
Dougald Hine
23rd December, 2020
Latest in our series Of Earth and Empire, a pivotal dialogue about moving out of 'the house that modernity built' between Dougald Hine and Brazilian academic, Vanessa Andreotti.
Riders on the Wolf
Dougald Hine
30th September, 2020
Our perception of climate change is often blinkered by scientific data and statistics. Dougald Hine reviews two books that delve into the kind of lexicon and attention demanded in an age of catastrophe.
The Price of Life
Dougald Hine
20th March, 2020
Dark Mountain co-founder Dougald Hine writes about our collective encounter with parental mortality, as the unfolding reality of the Coronavirus pandemic spreads across our lives
Now We Are Ten
Dougald Hine
17th July, 2019
Celebrating a decade of the Dark Mountain Project with the introduction to Uncivilisation, the manifesto that began it all
Dealing With Our Own Shit
Dougald Hine
26th June, 2019
To introduce our next Featured Mountaineer: Dougald Hine's conversation with the Mexican activist and intellectual, Gustavo Esteva, which originally appeared in Issue 4
After We Stop Pretending
Dougald Hine
22nd April, 2019
From our 'Age of Fire' Issue 15: Dougald Hine writes about Extinction Rebellion and the rupture of existing narratives around climate change – with image by Emanuel Depoorter
Find the Others
Dougald Hine
8th April, 2019
Introducing our new experiment to support local gatherings organised by Dark Mountain readers.
Ten Years on a Mountain
Dougald Hine
1st October, 2018
After ten years with Dark Mountain, co-founder Dougald Hine is preparing to move on.
Extending the Glide
Dougald Hine
29th March, 2018
What happens when a sustainability expert hits a wall of despair over climate change? Professor Jem Bendell talks to Dark Mountain co-founder Dougald Hine.
The Big Ask: Help Us Fund the Next Stage of Dark Mountain
Dougald Hine
11th May, 2017
Between the walking and the cooking and the fireside musings, much of our conversation that...