Ben Mc Cabe

Ben is a PhD Researcher in environmental aspect of the arts.  He is a trained architect, urbanist, artist and gardener and cares for the natural world.  He is an alumnus of The King's Foundation in the UK, Foster+Partners Architects London, and a former Course Director of the British, Irish and Australian Academies of Garden Design.

Book Review: The Future of the Past – When cultural heritage meets climate change

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Cover of The Future of the Past

A rather clichéd question consistently asked of curators, connoisseurs and collectors in interviews is: ‘if this place was on fire, what would you save?’ The chosen piece is inevitably of …

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Book Review: Bogland – The Secret World That Defies Death and Protects Life

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Cover of Bogland: The Secret World That Defies Death and Protects Life by Merritt R. Turetsky

As a nursling of the rural Irish landscape, I was taken with the title of Merritt R. Turetsky’s book Bogland: The Secret World That Defies Death and Protects Life as …

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