Bothies are spread all across Scotland, Northern England and Wales, most being concentrated to the Scottish Highlands. They are places for people to stop during walks and wanders of all kind, equipped with only the bare necessities such as places to sleep, a fire place and if you’re lucky a shovel to create your own toilets. There is one most important rule to Bothies, however, you cannot deny another person entry.
In a sense the Bothy is a transient space in which people can move freely through, adding or subtracting as they desire, exchanging food, games and stories with one another. Through communal action we hope that this project can successfully manoeuvre the essence of Bothy culture into a new context.
The workshop focused on collective action in the creation of space, looking at the culture of trespass that brought both the Right to Roam and Bothies into existence. The very forming of the Bothy we built necessitated communal action from all participants and the outcome was an ephemeral space in which the participants could exchange stories, games and advice with one another and any lucky rambler who may be roaming past.
