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 […]
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 […]
(p)Art of the Biomass has in collaboration with Humus economicus and on invitation from curator Stella d’Ailly at fabulous Mossutställningar written a letter to soil, called Soil Correspondences. It is published in the free art magazine Elementa together with other artist letters to the elements, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dear soil friends, please consider joining us for a “thinking with soils” workshop in Gothenburg, Sweden, 7-9 June 2022, as part of the Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference (NESS). Please note he short deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2021 (draft papers: 20 March 2022). The […]
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 […]
Humus Economicus Collaboratory, in association with The Posthumanities Hub, are happy to invite you to a seminar with Thomas Hahn, Stockholm Resilience Centre, and Åsa Ståhl & Mathilda Tham, Linneaus University, Sweden. WHEN: Friday 10 September, 10:15-12:00 CEST WHERE: Zoom (a link will be sent […]
Funded by Formas, a Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development