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 […]
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 […]
We are exited to join the activities offered at this year’s Climate Existence Conference and to host a morning workshop on Friday, August 18, called Toxic Heritage, or How to Wash an Island. This time it is the artistic team of Humus economicus – Janna […]
Arwidsson Talks, a podcast focusing on sustainable urban development, got interested in Humus economicus’ concept ”soil blindness” and invited Malin Lobell and Jenny Lindblad from the research team for a conversation on soils in the city. The podcast is in Swedish and can be listened […]
We are very happy for the collaboration with Tumba Paper Mill in the museums’s new exhibition Down to earth—self suffiency then and now, which departs from life at the paper mill around the turn of the last century. The exhibition tells the story of the […]
This April 27-29, Humus Economicus visited the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm, where the Swedish Anthropological Association held its yearly conference on the theme of Taking Care. The presentations in the conference engaged with diverse caring practices focusing on buildings, ocean creatures, street-vendors, tree canopies, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A research project at Swedish National Historical Museums. Funded by Formas, a Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development
