Rewilding Futures: Shaping Tomorrow's Wild

Scotland faces serious ecological and sociological challenges. It has one of the most depleted terrestrial landscapes, and concurrently some of the highest landownership inequality, in the world. Rewilding, meanwhile, faces serious methodological challenges: how can landscape-scale projects be strategically planned, overcoming present parcellisation, and how can projects be safeguarded in the long-term, overcoming the whims landowners may have at any one time? Other big unanswered questions predominate too, notably how non-human voices can be integrated into the structures we use to decide what to do, or what not to do, with the land and seas we inhabit. All of these questions — and more — will be explored in this interactive workshop. After a contextualising discussion, participants will devise their own solutions in small groups. They will receive character cards, roleplaying different stakeholders —whether private landowners, local community groups, or the national government — while tapping into Scotland’s unique legislative provisions, financing schemes, and landownership culture. Solutions will then be pitched to other groups at the end of the workshop.