Joycelyn Longdon on secret willow rooms and radical imagination

About this episode

Joycelyn Longdon discusses her work in conservation and bioacoustics while exploring the importance of cultural interaction for imagining a sustainable future.

Joycelyn Longdon wears many hats. She works on conservation with communities in Ghana, she speaks and writes about environmental action and she also specialises in something called bioacoustics. It keeps her pretty busy, so we caught up with her to take a break from her desk and a stroll into one of her favourite places - Paradise Nature Reserve in Cambridge. On the way, she explains how all her worlds come together and how important it is that cultural interaction creates a new way to imagine our future.

People in this episode

Guest: Joycelyn Longdon

Topics covered

• conservation
• environmental action
• bioacoustics
• cultural interaction
• imagination
• nature

Keywords

• conservation
• bioacoustics
• environment
• cultural interaction
• future
• nature
• Ghana

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Ghana, Paradise Nature Reserve, Cambridge

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