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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
August 2, 2023

From soil to soiling: exploring the agency of soils across research fields – Oslo, September 6-7.

Image above: Mounds of slag from the old copper mines of Røros, Norway. Photo: Marit Gjermshus. Transdisciplinary in the Environmental Humanities Symposium. A ‘soils turn’ is under-way in the environmental humanities and associated social sciences and the arts. From an ignored or maligned natural body to a […]

HERITAGE & ARCHIVES 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
June 11, 2021

Excursion: “Gipsön” the Gypsym Island – A Post-Industrial Monumental Sculpture and Agricultural Shadow Place

Image above: Gipsön, the Gypsum Island. Film still: Karin Wegsjö / (p)Art of the Biomass. In a series of excursions, seminars and art & science retreats, Humus economicus aims to visit sites that bear witness, or stand as ruins of recent pasts. The sites have […]

HERITAGE & ARCHIVES 5 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. […]

ART & RESEARCH 1 min read

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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