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At KNOCKvologan Studio, we hold a profound belief that an environment, when seen through diverse perspectives, explored through varied senses, and engaged with in multifaceted ways, can reveal fresh insights and possibilities. Our aim is to generate stories and foster a more sustainable relationship between humans and their habitat.

KNOCKvologan Studio is a base for dialogue, environmental, and artistic research. We merge art, literature, music, food, gardening, and nature to foster new perspectives on the relationship between humans and the living world we are a part of. By balancing local stories with global voices, we’re building a creative community inspiring new ways of thinking, living, and coexisting with our surroundings.

With our distinctive approach, we endeavor to contribute to a more holistic wisdom and sustainable culture, one that enhances biodiversity, fosters the well-being of both humanity and the environment, and ensures prosperity.

Human beings approach the land in countless ways—observing, protecting, exploiting, transforming, and traveling it. We learn from it, shape it, consume its resources, and find connection in it. These diverse interactions involve miners and sailors, crofters and fishermen, cartographers and carpenters, geologists and Aquanauts, biologists, undertakers, philosophers, anthropologists, politicians, poets, women, and men of all ages. Each person is guided by their unique story, goals, desires, and knowledge. While this diversity holds immense richness and potential, it can also lead to conflicts, misunderstandings, stagnation, and frustration. We envision a world where the wealth of diversity is harnessed to refine our collective vision of the land, reducing polarization and moving toward an inclusive, diverse, and resilient culture in harmony with the planet.

As a creative hub, we possess the power to envision alternative possibilities. Through art and literature-based projects, we continuously embark on a journey of experimentation, inspiring novel ways of thinking, creating, and living. With an artistic mindset, we challenge conventional norms within organizations, bureaucracies, consumer behavior, and government. Through the lens of beauty, we illuminate fresh and inspiring perspectives on the world that surrounds us.

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We are a member of Green Art Lab Alliance. Gala is an informal, international network of art organisations contributing to environmental sustainability through their creative practice. We are all committed to our co-written Manifesto and act according to our Objectives.