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August 4, 2023

The Plantationocene Monument, and the Legacy of Industrial Agricultural Systems

We are happy to announce that the short text “The Plantationocene Monument” has been included in The New Echological Epoch, the ecoartspace online exhibition and printed book 2023, with Mary Mattingly as juror. It will be launched October 1, 2023. This piece of eco fiction […]

ART & RESEARCH 1 min read
April 20, 2023

Visit the Gypsym Island 2050 – launch of the fictive travel guide “A Guide to Zero-Carbon Skåne”, by Climaginaries

Time travel is great fun, and quite safe. Though it is possible to travel alone, we recommend to do it together. This is definitely an experience you would want to share with others. If you are not sure where to go, there is now a […]

ART & RESEARCH 1 min read
September 30, 2022

Toxic Heritage, or How to Wash an Island

Image above: Gipsön in the 1980s. Photo: Anders Hilding/Landskrona museum. The film “How to Wash an Island” by the art platform (p)Art of the Biomass tells the story about a man-made, toxic island in Sweden that most Swedes never have heard of. The island exists […]

ART & RESEARCH 2 min read
September 26, 2022

(F)jorden – a floating symposium with artists, chefs and researchers on the Norwegian ship S/J Mathilde

The Nordic artist group Skifte.Land organized the deeply memorable symposium (F)jorden, and invited artists, researchers and chefs to sail with the old ship Mathilde in the Hardangerfjord, Norway, 19–25 September 2022. The symposium included public seminars and events at different locations along the way as […]

ART & RESEARCH 1 min read
September 25, 2022

Food security, soil, and toxic heritage – the floating symposium (F)jorden visits Bryggens Museum, Norway

After five days of sailing with S/J Mathilde in the Hardangerfjord, Norway, the floating symposium (F)jorden arrived at Bergen harbour. The ship opened to the public and offered sustainable sea food, film, readings, talks, activities, and art on display. In collaboration with Bryggens Museum, a […]

ART & RESEARCH 1 min read
December 1, 2021

Meet Anthropogenic Soils – A Science-Humanities-Arts Collaboratory on Soil Care in Contaminated Times

Meet our collaborators Anthropogenic Soils at Oslo School of Environmental Humanities! This amazing collaboratory focuses on practices and understandings of remediation and soil repair in response to historical and contemporary concerns about soil health. Anthropogenic Soils brings together scholars, practitioners, and artists to develop new […]

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November 15, 2021

Meet the Soil Care Network – an Interdisciplinary, Global Community of Scholars and Practitioners Animated by the Love of, Fascination with, and Dedication to Soils

We have the utter joy and pleasure to be part of this fantastic network. The Soil Care Network is a place for soil scholars and those interested in soil research to find one another, and a space of supportive and creative exchange of ideas. The […]

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May 11, 2021

The Soil Symposium with Kultivator, Accelerator Art Hall (online), 12 May

Above: Kultivator “Soil Faculty”, 2020. Installation view from the exhibition “The Experimental Field” at Accelerator 2021. Photo: Christian Saltas. Join us at the Soil Symposium, curated and moderated by Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris! The Soil Symposium is a cross disciplinary meeting place for artists and researchers to […]

ART & RESEARCH 1 min read
May 6, 2021

Seminar: The Legacy of the Fogelstad Group, Humus Economicus Collaboratory with Åsa Elzén

Above: water color sketch in preparation for the carpet A Fallow / En Träda, Maja Fjaestad, 1919. Photo: Åsa Elzén. On May 4, we had the great pleasure of meeting artist Åsa Elzén who for many years – through a series of works, exhibitions, conversations, […]

ART & RESEARCH 1 min read
May 6, 2021

Soil, Peace, Women’s Rights and the Environmental Pioneers in Sweden – Art & Science Retreat No. 2

3-4 May, 2021 During this second art & science retreat (see No. 1 here), we continued our series of walks, where we visit sites that bear witness to how human-soil relations have changed landscapes as well as heritage and soil imaginaries in a Swedish context. […]

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Have we become soil blind?

The life-sustaining skin of the earth, the soils, are disappearing rapidly on a global scale. Industrialized urban societies could be said to suffer from partial soil blindness, not noticing the intricate life of soils, the biocultures they are part of and the many gifts they offer. Apart from providing food, living soils mitigate climate change, store water, and draw down carbon into the ground. In short: soil is key to sustainable futures. How could we become better collaborators? Explore the fascinating world of soils with us!


Funded by Formas, a Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development

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