Charity managing Glasgow’s arts, sport, libraries and learning for the city
A wave of urban art installations and residencies is transforming public spaces. From Logroño’s Round About Baths to Antwerp’s Zuidpark, cities are converting car-focused infrastructure into green, people-friendly spaces to combat heat and rainfall. New projects in Aberdeen and Glasgow add to a broader trend of accessible, site-specific art and urban design.
UK institutions are accelerating digitisation of herbarium and insect collections to enhance accessibility for research, bolster biodiversity records, and track climate-change effects. The projects connect major Scottish and English collections into national and UK-wide digital networks, enabling historical data to inform modern science.
A Court of Session has ordered a family to leave the Granton site immediately, as Scottish ministers push to recover land for a new £100m Art Works development. The family argued human-rights breaches, but judges found the eviction justified, citing safety concerns and the project’s urgency.