Nervous State is back, with more crucial dispatches from the nether zone that is 2021.

We’ll be starting with our usual round-up with the Dublin Inquirer. Tommy Gavin’ll be checking in with Lois Kapila to discuss efforts to map institutional landlords in Dublin, and explore just how the changing nature of landlords matters to developments in the city.

Dublin’s social and cultural life was dealt a blow with the closure of Jigsaw recently. Jigsaw (previously known as Seomra Spraoi) was a home to far too many groups down the years, including Dublin Digital Radio, and provided a unique space for social and cultural organising. Patrick McCusker caught up with Barry Semple, manager of Jigsaw, Andrew Flood, who was involved in setting up the space, and Michelle Connolly of CATU to discuss the importance of Jigsaw as a space, and what the prospects for these spaces are going forward.

Deirdre O’Mahony is a visual artist whose practice is informed by deep interest in rural sustainability, farming, food security and rural/urban relationships. For more than two decades she has investigated the political ecology of rural places through public engagement, art and writing. Caitriona Devery talks to her about her new project Sustainment Experiments, which consider what action/s can be taken in the face of ecological and climate crises. It starts with the idea of ‘Sustainment’ put forward by design theorist Tony Fry as an equivalent movement to the Enlightenment in its capacity to transform systems of thought and behaviours. Framed by this concept, Deirdre is working with farmers, scientists and food producers to use institutional and non-institutional public spaces to unpack issues around food production, climate change and biodiversity loss through soil health and soil remediation.  

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