OUR PROJECTS

Shifting Baselines

We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded project funding from Forth2O to support a new ‘Shifting Baselines’ project. We are doing this in collaboration with Fife Coast and Countryside Trust.

The project is innovative in its integration of storytelling, citizen science and environmental history into a single, community-led framework. Rather than treating engagement, data collection and research as separate activities, this project combines them to create shared understanding, trust and momentum for action. This approach represents a step change from consultation-led models to genuine co-design with communities.

We are running a series of workshops and community activities covering community stories, fishing, birds, tourism, industry and lost words. Alongside this we are working with D’Arcy Thomson to review environmental data that already exists and consider how to visualise and share this in a more accessible way for local communities.

We’ll share outputs from these workshops and community activities as they happen, and then pull all of this together as we approach project completion in September.

As part of this project we undertook analysis of Edinburgh Shoreline’s talking heads footage, community stories, 
views and creations gathered over the years. Elements relating to shifting baseline themes 
have been input into an interactive timeline.