Reading Room

A series of commissioned essays by cultural academics on intriguing topics and lines of thought relevant to the Gaia Art Foundation programme.

The Politics of Food

The Politics of Food Reading List

A reading list for our fifth season of the Politics of Food, formed from recommendations from residents and UK associates.

Oak Moon

A recipe for celebrating the final swing of the lunar cycle before the solstice

Cooking Sections

Empire Remains Christmas Pudding

The Christmas Pudding is a well-known ‘gastronomic paradox’: the most English of dishes made from the most un-English of ingredients.

Mark Pilkington

Spore Wars

Psilocybin, Psychedelics and the Battle for the Mind

The Sense of an Endling

How the sorrows of extinction can improve our relationship with the living

Gary Zhexi Zhang

The (Insurable) Universe Is Shrinking

CATs, Hurricanes and the World on FIRE

Claire-Louise Bennett

There Was A Tree

The tree was cut down and dragged across the field to the side of the field where it was sawed into pieces