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Shared Habitat Collaborations

Shared Habitat Collaborations, established in 1989, has initiated sustainable infrastructure, runs curated and mentored artists residencies, creates photographic and textual projects involving local communities and promotes the ecological stewardship of land.


Dartington to Totnes
Foot- and Cyclepath


Shared Habitat initiated the Dartington to Totnes Foot- and Cyclepath in 1989. Over the following years we negotiated with Dartington Trust, the major landowners, worked together with the national charity SUSTRANS, and involved the local Dartington village community in decision making. Eventually, the most important section of the path (from Dartington Shinners Bridge to Totnes) was built. This route has become a highly valued and much frequented route for cyclists, walkers and wheelchair users alike.
Over the following years the route has been extended by South Hams Council and local supporters to include pathways by the river Dart and lead into the centre of Totnes.
Shared Habitat’s original, ground-breaking proposal was to connect Totnes all the way with Buckfastleigh. Here is an image of the hand-drawn map that, accompanied by photographs and notes. Now new initatives are picking up where we left off, to build a path all the way.




This map was researched and photographed by Eila Goldhahn and Stuart J Young and then drawn by Juliet Robertson of NUTSHELL Natural Paints.

Pfaelzer Hof Artists Residencies in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Shared Habitat run artist residencies and mentored retreats. Pfaelzer Hof Artists Residencies was set up in a former hotel and is a member of ResArtis. Residencies are curated and often result in a solo exhibition in the project room / gallery. We have a relationship with the University Trier Campus Idar-Oberstein and artists are usually invited to present their work to the students and staff.

Nina Mischler creating a mural on the terrace of Pfaelzer Hof
Jeder Zug zählt (Every move counts) depicts billiard champion Paul Schneider, the former hotelier of Pfaelzer Hof.


Kelsey Harrison with her sculptures Pillars of Support
in response to our call to work with architectural timbers left over from the underpinning of the Pfaelzer Hof’s iconic historical facade.


Joanna Tam in her award-winning film Wasenstrasse conceived of and shot on our road on the topic of home.



Invitation to see Bruce Asbesto’s stunning videos in the project room / gallery at Pfaelzer Hof Artist Residencies during his residency in 2021.



Find out about our residencies: info@pfaelzerhof.org

Pfaelzer Hof Artists Residencies
Watercolour by Lydia Corbett, resident artist in 2013.

Photography & Text

Stuart J Young and Eila Goldhahn create photography projects with a single authorship.


Interval:
Impressions of Dartington in times of change


A commission for Gardens of Culture by KOINZI TANZ, Hamburg and created for Abi Warburg Haus, Hamburg, Germany, November 2023.
(Also exhibited at Birdwood House, Totnes in February 2024.)


© Eila Goldhahn & Stuart J Young 2023

Comments:

...beguiling & haunting as a comment on a fading beautiful thing.

Fascinating, insightful commentary on the changing life of Dartington.

Profound, thoughtful with visual acumen.

Meaningful images of change.

Excellent, beautiful composition.

Very, very impressive.



Other photography by
Shared Habitat:
All texts, ideas and images © Eila Goldhahn & Stuart J Young 2023