A Person Is Not An Individual

Aquaculture Cradle, Creathal Dualchas Uisgeach, Illustration by Isabel McLeish 2021 – inspired by the Multispecies Cat’s Cradle, Nasser Mufti’s, Staying with The Trouble, Donna Haraway 2016. Black pen drawing on white paper, illustrating a hand in the centre connected by string to a shell oil cap, a scallop shell, seaweed and a flame shell.

Duilich, chan eil seo ri fhaighinn ach sa Bheurla an-dràsta.

The first publication for the School of Plural Futures that came about through generative discussions is titled A Person is Not An Individual. The book consists of conversations, illustrations, photography, poetry, essays and more from all those who gave their time and energy to the school. Printed via Strath print, the publication was bound using the Making Publics Press at the ATLAS office.

A Person Is Not an Individual includes contributions from Katharine Barrington, Ari Borzea, Andrew Black, Maoilios Caimbeul, Ailish Culbertson, Cal Earl, Rufus Isabel Eliot, Heather Fulton, Ruth Little, Sarah Macleod, Catherine Machee, Murdo MacGillivray, Iain MacKinnon, Mairi McFadyen, Cheryl McIntyre, Isabel McLeish, Emmie McLuskey, Liam Neupert, Sara Oussaiden, Ainslie Roddick, Raghnaid Sandilands, Samir Sharif, Lea Shaw, Sebastian Taylor, Eilidh Towers, Matthew Arthur Williams, Grace Wright, Jordan Young and edited by Emmie McLuskey and Sebastian Taylor.