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Just two people – but millions of inhabitants: the tiny Cornish island where nature is thriving.

Looe Island is a case study in how to boost biodiversity, a place where the wardens, Claire Lewis and her partner, Jon Ross, are the only residents, alongside gulls, godwits and comma butterflies.

Article

Just two people – but millions of inhabitants: the tiny Cornish island where nature is thriving.

The Guardian

Looe Island is a case study in how to boost biodiversity, a place where the wardens, Claire Lewis and her partner, Jon Ross, are the only residents, alongside gulls, godwits and comma butterflies.

Article

Food for Thought: Cooking Sections Sink Their Teeth into the Politics of Consumption

Elephant Magazine

The Turner Prize nominees put the politics of food firmly on the menu. Madeleine Morley speaks to the pair about the ingredients for an alternative future.

Article

Food for Thought: Cooking Sections Sink Their Teeth into the Politics of Consumption

Elephant Magazine

The Turner Prize nominees put the politics of food firmly on the menu. Madeleine Morley speaks to the pair about the ingredients for an alternative future.

Book

Lapidarium: The Secret Life of Stones by Hettie Judah

Penguin

Inspired by the lapidaries of the ancient world, this is a beautifully designed collection of true stories about sixty different stones that have influenced our shared history.

Book

Lapidarium: The Secret Life of Stones by Hettie Judah

Penguin

Inspired by the lapidaries of the ancient world, this is a beautifully designed collection of true stories about sixty different stones that have influenced our shared history.

Article

The end of waste: The grand plan to build a truly circular economy

New Scientist

We hack almost 100 billion tonnes of stuff from Earth’s surface every year, and most of it goes to waste. Changing that means a complete overhaul of how we live.

Article

The end of waste: The grand plan to build a truly circular economy

New Scientist

We hack almost 100 billion tonnes of stuff from Earth’s surface every year, and most of it goes to waste. Changing that means a complete overhaul of how we live.

Pauline Oliveros: The difference between hearing and listening

TED x Indianapolis

Pauline is a composer and accordionist who significantly contributed to the development of electronic music. The culmination of her life-long fascination with music and sound inspired the practice of Deep Listening.

Pauline Oliveros: The difference between hearing and listening

TED x Indianapolis

Pauline is a composer and accordionist who significantly contributed to the development of electronic music. The culmination of her life-long fascination with music and sound inspired the practice of Deep Listening.

Podcast

OpenEnded Podcast with Katie Patrick

Openended Design

A conversation with Katie Patrick, an environmental engineer and software designer based in San Francisco. Katie works at the intersection of environmental behaviour, gamification, and technology, to tackle complex environmental issues.

Podcast

OpenEnded Podcast with Katie Patrick

Openended Design

A conversation with Katie Patrick, an environmental engineer and software designer based in San Francisco. Katie works at the intersection of environmental behaviour, gamification, and technology, to tackle complex environmental issues.

Podcast

The Art Angle Podcast with MoMA curator, Paola Antonelli

Artnet News

The Art Angle Podcast: MoMA Curator Paola Antonelli on Design for the Post-Pandemic World. On this week's episode, the curator weighs in on video games, design theory, and the future of offices.

Podcast

The Art Angle Podcast with MoMA curator, Paola Antonelli

Artnet News

The Art Angle Podcast: MoMA Curator Paola Antonelli on Design for the Post-Pandemic World. On this week's episode, the curator weighs in on video games, design theory, and the future of offices.

Video

Florence Ostende on 'Noguchi', Barbican Art Gallery

White Cube

Curator Florence Ostende discusses the 'Noguchi' exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. Filmed at the Barbican Centre to coincide with the exhibition which is Isamu Noguchi's first touring retrospective in Europe for 20 years.

Video

Florence Ostende on 'Noguchi', Barbican Art Gallery

White Cube

Curator Florence Ostende discusses the 'Noguchi' exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. Filmed at the Barbican Centre to coincide with the exhibition which is Isamu Noguchi's first touring retrospective in Europe for 20 years.

Article

Feral Atlas

Art Review

Feral Atlas is a five-year curatorial project by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena and Feifei Zhou, involving over 100 scientists, humanists and artists who seek to examine the un-designed effects of human infrastructures.

Article

Feral Atlas

Art Review

Feral Atlas is a five-year curatorial project by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena and Feifei Zhou, involving over 100 scientists, humanists and artists who seek to examine the un-designed effects of human infrastructures.

Article

A powerful and underappreciated ally in the climate crisis? Fungi.

The Guardian

Mycorrhizal fungal networks are a major global carbon sink. When we destroy them, we sabotage our efforts to limit global heating.

Article

A powerful and underappreciated ally in the climate crisis? Fungi.

The Guardian

Mycorrhizal fungal networks are a major global carbon sink. When we destroy them, we sabotage our efforts to limit global heating.

Interview

Art Institutions in the Age of Existential Risks: What to Do?

e-flux

As a kickoff to a series of conversations, the online conference Art Institutions in the Age of Existential Risks: What to Do? hosts international experts explore whether art and culture can play a role in solving these existential crises.

Interview

Art Institutions in the Age of Existential Risks: What to Do?

e-flux

As a kickoff to a series of conversations, the online conference Art Institutions in the Age of Existential Risks: What to Do? hosts international experts explore whether art and culture can play a role in solving these existential crises.

Article

Future Heritage?

e-flux

Planetary challenges are putting the world’s population through an existential test: How is one to find strength, inspiration, and hope in a moment in which weakness, cynicism, and despair seem so easy to surrender to?

Article

Future Heritage?

e-flux

Planetary challenges are putting the world’s population through an existential test: How is one to find strength, inspiration, and hope in a moment in which weakness, cynicism, and despair seem so easy to surrender to?

Article

Can a robot ever be conscious and how would we know if it were?

New Scientist

Some people think we could easily build and identify a conscious robot, while others insist that it’s impossible – it all depends on what you think consciousness is.

Article

Can a robot ever be conscious and how would we know if it were?

New Scientist

Some people think we could easily build and identify a conscious robot, while others insist that it’s impossible – it all depends on what you think consciousness is.

Video

Utuqaq by Iva Radivojević

Emergence Magazine

As four researchers embark on an expedition to drill ice cores in the Arctic in subzero temperatures, the presence of these visitors is witnessed by Utuqaq—ice that lasts year after year.

Video

Utuqaq by Iva Radivojević

Emergence Magazine

As four researchers embark on an expedition to drill ice cores in the Arctic in subzero temperatures, the presence of these visitors is witnessed by Utuqaq—ice that lasts year after year.

Book

140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth

Serpentine Gallery, Penguin Books

Through drawings, thought experiments, recipes, instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, 140 artists have come together in a publication dedicated to the environment and the climate emergency.

Book

140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth

Serpentine Gallery, Penguin Books

Through drawings, thought experiments, recipes, instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, 140 artists have come together in a publication dedicated to the environment and the climate emergency.

Podcast

Green Thinking: Can artists help save the planet?

Arts & Ideas, BBC3

Is encouraging action still art? What does it mean to make art about the environment? Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough brings together a curator, researchers and artists to discuss these questions.

Podcast

Green Thinking: Can artists help save the planet?

Arts & Ideas, BBC3

Is encouraging action still art? What does it mean to make art about the environment? Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough brings together a curator, researchers and artists to discuss these questions.

Video

The Psychedelic Drug Trial

BBC iplayer

The Psychedelic Drug Trial follows a ground-breaking new trial at Imperial College London.

Video

The Psychedelic Drug Trial

BBC iplayer

The Psychedelic Drug Trial follows a ground-breaking new trial at Imperial College London.

Article

Linking Science and Technology with Arts and the Next Generation: The STEAM Imaging Experimental Artist Residency, A Case Study.

Leonardo

Bianka Hofmann describes designing an artist-in-residence project within a research institute for applied science as a dialogue-oriented form of science communication and education.

Article

Linking Science and Technology with Arts and the Next Generation: The STEAM Imaging Experimental Artist Residency, A Case Study.

Leonardo

Bianka Hofmann describes designing an artist-in-residence project within a research institute for applied science as a dialogue-oriented form of science communication and education.

Article

Maya Lin Builds a Final Monument to the Climate

Frieze Magazine

With the opening of 'Ghost Forest' at Madison Square Park, the artist and architect discusses memory and ecology with Frieze Senior Editor Evan Moffitt.

Article

Maya Lin Builds a Final Monument to the Climate

Frieze Magazine

With the opening of 'Ghost Forest' at Madison Square Park, the artist and architect discusses memory and ecology with Frieze Senior Editor Evan Moffitt.

Interview

Finding the Mother Tree: An Interview with Suzanne Simard

Emergence Magazine

In this in-depth interview, Dr. Suzanne Simard— who discovered the “wood-wide web”—speaks about mother trees, kin recognition, and how to heal our separation from the living world.

Interview

Finding the Mother Tree: An Interview with Suzanne Simard

Emergence Magazine

In this in-depth interview, Dr. Suzanne Simard— who discovered the “wood-wide web”—speaks about mother trees, kin recognition, and how to heal our separation from the living world.

Article

Protecting Our Living Relatives: Environmental Reproductive Justice and Seed Rematriation, By Elizabeth Hoover

e-flux

For many Native American communities, understandings of family, fertility, and “collective continuance” are closely rooted to the protection, preservation, and revitalization of native seeds.

Article

Protecting Our Living Relatives: Environmental Reproductive Justice and Seed Rematriation, By Elizabeth Hoover

e-flux

For many Native American communities, understandings of family, fertility, and “collective continuance” are closely rooted to the protection, preservation, and revitalization of native seeds.

Article

Do Trees Talk to Each Other

Smithsonian Magazine

Peter Wohlleben, a German forester and author says yes, and his ideas are shaking up the scientific world.

Article

Do Trees Talk to Each Other

Smithsonian Magazine

Peter Wohlleben, a German forester and author says yes, and his ideas are shaking up the scientific world.

Video

In Conversation: Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Rebecca Lewin

Serpentine Gallery

Back to Earth artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg discusses the concept behind her upcoming pollinator project with Serpentine’s Curator of Exhibitions and Design, Rebecca Lewin.

Video

In Conversation: Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Rebecca Lewin

Serpentine Gallery

Back to Earth artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg discusses the concept behind her upcoming pollinator project with Serpentine’s Curator of Exhibitions and Design, Rebecca Lewin.

Article

The Artists Building a Future out of Mushrooms

Frieze Magazine

We are living in the era of the mushroom. Recent studies of mycelium have confirmed its ability to send and receive communication between fungi, trees and other plants.

Article

The Artists Building a Future out of Mushrooms

Frieze Magazine

We are living in the era of the mushroom. Recent studies of mycelium have confirmed its ability to send and receive communication between fungi, trees and other plants.

Profile

Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen

cohenvanbalen.com

Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen work across objects, installation and film that explore processes of production as cultural, personal and political practices. They work and live in London.

Profile

Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen

cohenvanbalen.com

Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen work across objects, installation and film that explore processes of production as cultural, personal and political practices. They work and live in London.

Book

Greenery Journeys in Springtime

Tim Dee

One December, in midsummer South Africa, Tim Dee was watching swallows. They were at home there, but the same birds would soon begin journeying north to Europe, where their arrival marks the beginning of spring.

Book

Greenery Journeys in Springtime

Tim Dee

One December, in midsummer South Africa, Tim Dee was watching swallows. They were at home there, but the same birds would soon begin journeying north to Europe, where their arrival marks the beginning of spring.

Podcast

PSYCHEDELIC SCIENCE

Sam Harris

In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Roland Griffiths about the current state of research on psychedelics.

Podcast

PSYCHEDELIC SCIENCE

Sam Harris

In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Roland Griffiths about the current state of research on psychedelics.

Article

Remember when contemporary art solved the climate crisis?

Art Asia Pacific

Not every artwork needs to be about the climate crisis. Nor should it be. That being said, with a recent, sharp increase in climate-change as a topic for artworks and exhibitions, it is necessary to address a sizable gap.

Article

Remember when contemporary art solved the climate crisis?

Art Asia Pacific

Not every artwork needs to be about the climate crisis. Nor should it be. That being said, with a recent, sharp increase in climate-change as a topic for artworks and exhibitions, it is necessary to address a sizable gap.

Article

Coronavirus cuts Chinese carbon emissions by up to 25 percent

ARS Technica

Factories and other businesses have remained shuttered. Coal-use at power plants is at a four-year low. Oil and steel production are both lower than at any point since the Chinese economy suffered a slowdown in 2015.

Article

Coronavirus cuts Chinese carbon emissions by up to 25 percent

ARS Technica

Factories and other businesses have remained shuttered. Coal-use at power plants is at a four-year low. Oil and steel production are both lower than at any point since the Chinese economy suffered a slowdown in 2015.

Video

The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and The Cosmic Tree

Camden Art Centre

Humanity’s place in the natural order is under scrutiny as never before, held in a precarious balance between visible and invisible forces: from the microscopic threat of a virus to the monumental power of climate change.

Video

The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and The Cosmic Tree

Camden Art Centre

Humanity’s place in the natural order is under scrutiny as never before, held in a precarious balance between visible and invisible forces: from the microscopic threat of a virus to the monumental power of climate change.

Video

Art and sustainable ecology and economics | Vaughan Judge | TEDxBozeman

TedX

Vaughan Judge argues that to conjure the notion of the artist as the solitary genius is determinative of the way we think of creativity, and that notion is decades out of date. Today’s society doesn’t reward us for what us know, but for what you can do with that knowledge, and that is the mindset of an artist. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Video

Art and sustainable ecology and economics | Vaughan Judge | TEDxBozeman

TedX

Vaughan Judge argues that to conjure the notion of the artist as the solitary genius is determinative of the way we think of creativity, and that notion is decades out of date. Today’s society doesn’t reward us for what us know, but for what you can do with that knowledge, and that is the mindset of an artist. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Closing Ritual at Hayward Gallery

Closing Ritual at Hayward Gallery

Journal

Just two people – but millions of inhabitants: the tiny Cornish island where nature is thriving.

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Just two people – but millions of inhabitants: the tiny Cornish island where nature is thriving.

Just two people – but millions of inhabitants: the tiny Cornish island where nature is thriving.

Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet

Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet

Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution

Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution

Sougwen Chung: Why I Draw With Robots

Sougwen Chung: Why I Draw With Robots

Another Kind of Time: Interview with Jenny Odell

Another Kind of Time: Interview with Jenny Odell

TANK x Gaia: Sougwen Chung

TANK x Gaia: Sougwen Chung

TANK x GAIA: Gaia Vince

TANK x GAIA: Gaia Vince

TANK x GAIA: Asad Raza

TANK x GAIA: Asad Raza

Tank x Gaia: Kyriaki Goni

Tank x Gaia: Kyriaki Goni

Pollinators of Slovenia

Pollinators of Slovenia

Spectres in Change: Site-Sensitive Art-Science Research in the Archipelago

Spectres in Change: Site-Sensitive Art-Science Research in the Archipelago

I’m an Art Critic. Will AI Steal My Job?

I’m an Art Critic. Will AI Steal My Job?

An Ethics of Wild Mind

An Ethics of Wild Mind

Huge dust cloud launched from Earth's moon could ease global warming

Huge dust cloud launched from Earth's moon could ease global warming

The Lost Rhino

The Lost Rhino

James Bridle: An Ecological Technology

James Bridle: An Ecological Technology

Muted Tongues: A Timeline of Suppressed Languages

Muted Tongues: A Timeline of Suppressed Languages

The Politics of Food Reading List

The Politics of Food Reading List

New Myths

New Myths

Forest Dreaming

Forest Dreaming

The Empire Remains Christmas Pudding

The Empire Remains Christmas Pudding

Oak Moon (Moon Milk Recipe)

Oak Moon (Moon Milk Recipe)

MUTATE. MUTATING. MUTANT.

MUTATE. MUTATING. MUTANT.

Guide to Seasonal Funghi by Ellen Percival

Guide to Seasonal Funghi by Ellen Percival

Velcro, bullet trains and robotic arms: how nature is the mother of invention

Velcro, bullet trains and robotic arms: how nature is the mother of invention

Eleven Ways of Smelling a Tree by David G. Haskell

Eleven Ways of Smelling a Tree by David G. Haskell

Finding the Mother Tree An Interview with Suzanne Simard

Finding the Mother Tree An Interview with Suzanne Simard

COP27: How the world is doing on climate targets and what to expect

COP27: How the world is doing on climate targets and what to expect

Where Will Our Food Come From? Genaro Amaro Altamirano

Where Will Our Food Come From? Genaro Amaro Altamirano

Salt Stains: Appetites and Extinctions

Salt Stains: Appetites and Extinctions

A Meditation on Food Waste, Imperfection, and Accumulation

A Meditation on Food Waste, Imperfection, and Accumulation

K Allado-McDowell: The Right Kind of AI

K Allado-McDowell: The Right Kind of AI

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg: On Media and Extinction

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg: On Media and Extinction

Alien Life as an Observer

Alien Life as an Observer

Ancient Green: Moss, Climate, and Deep Time

Ancient Green: Moss, Climate, and Deep Time

Computer powered by colony of blue-green algae has run for six months

Computer powered by colony of blue-green algae has run for six months

Food for Thought: Cooking Sections Sink Their Teeth into the Politics of Consumption

Food for Thought: Cooking Sections Sink Their Teeth into the Politics of Consumption

Lapidarium: The Secret Life of Stones by Hettie Judah