How are soils made present in urban planning processes, documents, and laws? This is one of the questions we attend to in this project’s exploration of relations between people and soils in the urban landscape. In what forms are soils taken into account? In our […]
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 […]
For Sentinel-1, a satellite pair orbiting planet Earth to meticulously and regularly scan its surface, my allotment garden covers four pixels, almost. The pixels have a resolution of 10 x 10 meters. The essential thing about these pixels is that they are not sealed with […]
3-4 May, 2021 During this second art & science retreat (see No. 1 here), we continued our series of walks, where we visit knotted sites that bear witness to how human-soil relations have changed landscapes as well as heritage and soil imaginaries in a Swedish […]
10-11 mars, 2021. We love field work. We love hot coffee and crisp early Spring days, and to be on the move through landscapes, soundscapes, cityscapes – in conversation with the site and each other. The terrain informs the conversation in invaluable ways, becomes a […]
A research project at Swedish National Historical Museums. Funded by Formas, a Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development