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.
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 HOME, a school for culturemakers, founded in 2018 with his partner Anna Björkman. The school is based in Västmanland, Sweden.
My Posts
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...
The Devil’s Door: A Call for Contributions to Issue 12
Dougald Hine
12th April, 2017
I first caught a trace of this phenomenon some years ago, visiting a Saxon church...
2016: You Want It Darker
Dougald Hine
25th January, 2017
‘As things stand, I don’t believe we will get a story worth hearing until we...
The Crossing of Two Lines
Dougald Hine
2nd March, 2015
War came and the building stopped. Stjepan joined the Partisans, fought against the occupying forces...
Uncivilisation Republished
Dougald Hine
26th January, 2015
The reading sets me thinking back, six years now, to the time when we were...
Dark Mountain: Issue 5
Dougald Hine
15th April, 2014
The ground shakes, nine miles from Cape Canavarel, and a young Tim Fox watches from...
Of Making Many Books
Dougald Hine
14th June, 2013
And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no...
These Companions That Speak Silently to Our Eyes
Dougald Hine
10th January, 2013
The remark jumped out at me because I had heard precisely the same claim from...
The Return of ‘The Vernacular’: A conversation with Sajay Samuel
Dougald Hine
12th July, 2011
More than any other thinker, Illich’s work marks the paths which led me to Dark...
Sensing & Knowing: A Conversation with David Abram
Dougald Hine
29th December, 2010
A philosopher, anthropologist and sleight-of-hand magician, he set off to learn about the the healing...