What has happened to the RSA Arts & Ecology website; it was a great source of information?Anyway, the 2nd Red Stables Art & Ecology summer school event in Dublin was hosted by the Red Stables Arts staff last week. Its great to think that the Red Stables is following on from its first Art & Ecology summer school in Ireland last year, with new commissioned works and walks  (and films screened over the next few weeks,-see here for details)Further afield I am delighted to be able to join artists, foresters, ecologists, place – researchers for the international PLaCE* (Place Location Context and Environment) symposium in Dundee Scotland in a few weeks time. While activity is growing in art-ecology-land practices in Ireland its been in the UK that I have previously met with larger groups of people who have been researching in this way for many years. In fact it was at the first RSA Art Forest conference in London in 2009 that encouraged me to do further study .The upcoming International PLaCE symposia in Scotland 1-4 Aug 2013, has field trips; including a two-day trip to old Caledonia forests and conifer plantations at the Duke of Atholls estateInvisible Scotland : an International Symposium1-4 August, Dundee and across Scotland! See here for more details; this symposium is open to anyone seeking a deep knowledge of how to relate to rural environments and the conference costs are very reasonable, with student accommodation available.* PLaCE is a grouping of creative, practice led, academic research centers that address issues of site, location, context and environment at the intersection of a multiplicity of disciplines and practices. Originally located in the Department of Art and Design at UWE, Bristol, England, in the summer of 2011 PLaCE became an international consortium of four centers, with PLaCE at UWE Bristol (now PLaCE, England) being joined by PLaCE, Minnesota (University of Minnesota Departments of Art and Landscape Architecture; College of Design) and PLaCE, Scotland (University of Dundee, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design); and PLaCE, Australia (University of Melbourne).See More