MayDay Rooms holds one of the largest and most significant archival collections of Britain’s ecological movement. Eco-Action: Global Ecology not Global Economy is a two year project, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, established to preserve, digitise and activate this material. The project will catalogue the collection; build an open-access online repository of the material under a Creative Commons license; conduct in-depth research into the collection; create guides and mapping connections between our collection and other archives; and incorporate oral histories and community-sourced content into an online resource. As part of the project, we are running a year-long youth engagement programme centred on histories of the ecological movement, research techniques and archival and digitisation methods.
The project will culminate in a multi-sited exhibition and published research which will situate ecological direct-action within the movement from the 1960s to present.