Resources

On this page, you can find:

  • stories, story collections and exhibition booklets
  • Briefing Papers
  • publications and guidance on how to make your own Waste Stories
  • presentations we have given about the Waste Stories project.

Scroll down to find them.

Stories, story collections and exhibition booklets

Art with Purpose Exhibition Booklet – featuring some of the work displayed during New College Lanarkshire Art Club’s Art with Purpose exhibition.

Arrochar and the Waste of the World – based on the words of Mary Haggarty, created in collaboration with the GRAB Trust, and featuring illustrations from the wonderful folk at Creative Triangle

Murdo and Meg Clean Up the Seas – an original Waste Story by Ron Butlin

Future Archaeologies of Marine Litter – the brochure that accompanies the physical and virtual exhibits developed with groups from the Scottish Islands Federation Marine Litter Working Group for our first Future Archaeologies of Marine Litter.

Washed Up and Blue – booklet accompanying the February 2025 Washed Up and Blue programme of cyanotype printing and creative writing, and subsequent exhibitions in D&G NHS properties. This programme was a partnership between Shambellie House, the Solway Firth Partnership and Waste Stories.

Waste Stories from New College Lanarkshire – booklet accompanying the April 2024 exhibition at the Mitchell Libary, Glasgow, of visual artworks created by students at New College Lanarkshire.

Briefing Papers

Waste Literacies. Anna Wilson, George Robertson and Agnieszka Uflewska. Waste Stories Briefing Paper no. 1 and CRADALL Briefing Paper 9/2024.

Foolish Foil: developing new folklore for the Waste Age. Anna Wilson, George Robertson and Agnieszka Ufklewska. Waste Stories Briefing Paper no. 2.

Waste Stories guidance for educators

The resources in this section introduce some basic processes for producing Waste Stories and include examples of stories created in response to specific themes.

Marine Litter-themed Waste Stories guidance, produced for the Solway Firth Partnership

Christmas-themed Waste Stories guidance, originally produced for RHET

Farms-themed Waste Stories guidance, originally produced for RHET

Activities to accompany the Solway Hoard exhibition

This booklet was created to accompany the Solway Hoard exhbition, which was a collaboration between the Solway Firth Partnership, Museums of the FutureNow and Waste Stories.

Presentations

Presentation by Anna Wilson at the Haunted Landscapes Conferrence, Falmouth, July 2023.

Presentation given by Anna Wilson and George Robertson at the Deleuze and Guattari Studies Conference, Belgrade, July 2023.

Presentation by Anna Wilson at the Networked Learning Conference 2024 in Valletta, Malta, May 2024