Dougald Hine
Dougald Hine (born 1977 in Cambridge, England) is a British author, editor and social entrepreneur. He co-founded School of Everything[1] and the The Dark Mountain Project,[2] of which he is Director at Large. In 2011, he was named one of Britain's 50 top radicals by NESTA.[3]
Hine went to school in Darlington, and read English Literature at Oxford University. Following his first degree, he studied broadcast journalism at Sheffield Hallam and then spent four years as a BBC journalist (2002-2005). From 2005 to 2006, he lived and worked for a year in China's turbulent and far western province of Xinjiang. He has been involved a number of projects and initiatives.[4]
As of 2012, he has been living in Stockholm.
Projects
- Pick Me Up (2004-6) was a weekly email newsletter intending to inspire people, through storytelling, to do something other than check their e-mail on Friday afternoons.
- The London School of Art & Business (2006). The group involved went on to found School of Everything.
- School of Everything was an internet startup intended to connect people who can teach with people who want to learn.
- The Dark Mountain Project (2009–present), has been one of his most important projects involving a manifesto, an extensive website, an annual festival run in collaboration with Paul Kingsnorth. The Dark Mountain project has resulted in three anthologies co-edited by Hine.[5]
- The Spacemakers Agency (2009–present) has established Hine's reputation as a social entrepreneur. Its first project was the re-development of Brixton Village,[6][7][8][9] and there have been a number of related projects since including the West Norwood Festival.
- New Public Thinking (2010–present),[10] a blog site which created a new space for public discourse and analysis aiming for a "better public discourse", resulting in an anthology of writings "Despatches from the Invisible Revolution"[11] edited with Keith Kahn-Harris.
Books
- The Crossing of Two Lines (2013) with Performing Pictures, Elemental Editions
- Dark Mountain: Issue 3 (2012) edited with Paul Kingsnorth and Adrienne Odasso.
- Despatches from the Invisible Revolution (2012) edited with Keith Kahn-Harris.
- Dark Mountain: Issue 2 (2011) edited with Paul Kingsnorth.
- Dark Mountain: Issue 1 (2010) edited with Paul Kingsnorth.
- COMMONSense (2009) with Anne-Marie Culhane & Access Space.
- Uncivilisation: The Dark Mountain Manifesto (2009) with Paul Kingsnorth.
References
- ↑ School of Everything
- ↑ Dark Mountain - Project Team
- ↑ Britain's 50 New Radicals, NESTA
- ↑ Hine's Website
- ↑ Dark Mountain Project - Bookshop
- ↑ Brixton Village - Spacemakers Agency Website
- ↑ Brixton Village pop-up shop project
- ↑ How Brixton's arcade got a new lease of life - London Evening Standard
- ↑ A Fresh Face in South London - New York Times
- ↑ New Public Thinking
- ↑ Pedia Press