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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Humus economicus is an art and research initiative that investigate the future and value of soil in urbanised landscapes. It is initiated by artist and environmental humanities researcher Janna Holmstedt, National Historical Museums, Sweden. The project mobilizes a team of artists, environmental-, urban-, gender-, and […]
A research project at Swedish National Historical Museums. Funded by Formas, a Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development