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...
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 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...
The Bleak Midwinter
Dougald Hine
24th December, 2010
What is unnatural, though, is how our modern midwinter customs seem calculated to make...
Defining the Mountain
Dougald Hine
22nd June, 2010
Responses to and reports about the festival – the first substantial Dark Mountain gathering – are popping up...
Getting Practical
Dougald Hine
29th April, 2010
This project is not about ‘doing nothing’ or ‘giving up’. It’s about what we do,...