The items represent a forecast station which would enable aurora hunters to determine when the right factors were in place to view the aurora in Scotland. The product was produced as part of a final year student project addressing issues of climate change and the relationship between Scotland and the North.

This collection comprises recorded interviews with the following former Glasgow School of Art staff and students:

• OH/1 Ellen Cunningham (née Timney), Embroidery and Weaving student, 1960-1964
• OH/2 Margaret Ferguson (née Dunn), Embroidery and Weaving student, 1946-1950
• OH/3 Meg Pollok (née Clark), Embroidery and Weaving student, 1946-1951
• OH/4 Margaret Grant (née Taylor), Interior Design student, 1946-1950 and member of staff, c1953-1979
• OH/5 Malcolm Lochhead, Embroidery and Weaving student, 1966-1970
• OH/6 Dugald Cameron, Industrial Design student, 1947-1962, member of staff, 1962-1999, and Director 1991-1999
• OH/7 Conrad McKenna, Commercial Art student, 1939-1942 and 1946-1948, and member of staff,1950-1984
• OH/8 Eirene Hunter (née Paton), Printed Textiles student c1952-53.

Please note that this material is not yet fully catalogued and therefore some items may not be accessible to researchers.