SCAN Podcasts

SCAN releases podcast series to share in-depth knowledge gained from our projects, and to make conversations happening at our events accessible to a wider audience. 

SCAN Summit 2025 podcast 

This podcast series contains recordings from SCAN Summit 2025: The Grid, which took place in Inverness. The podcast features talks from Harvey Dimond, Les Bicknall and Marianne Brown, plus a roundtable discussion from Maria de Lim, Flick Monk and Giulia Gregnanin – all interrogating the systems that distribute power, energy and communications in literal and metaphorical ways. 

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SCAN Summit 2024 podcast 

Talks from our 2024 Summit in Birnam feature in this podcast series, including artists, thinkers, and writers responding to the 21st anniversary of the Land Reform Act Scotland. 

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SCAN Decades podcast 

This podcast series documents four conversations from our 2023 DECADES event series, which matched SCAN friends, collaborators and alumni with the thinkers, activists and organisers who inspire them. Each event centred an issue prescient to the lives of artists, art workers and the wider public. 

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SCAN Sparks podcast 

Released in 2021, this podcast series shares conversations from the first iteration of our SCAN Sparks programme, which explored grassroots activism and equalities-focused working. The podcast was hosted by SCAN alumnus and artist Sekai Machache, with guests from organisations including Fringe of Colour and We Are Here Scotland. 

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