Urban soils, artistic practice and Rancière. Writing from Portland, Oregon, Zbigniew Grabowski and Isaac Weiss invites us to an engaged art-science practice around urban sustainability. With a focus on urban soils they explore novel coordinates of how to Read more
SITUATED ECOLOGIES gathers art, design and research collaborations to contest and democratise ecologies.
The invisible nature of urban soils: “Mycelial Peregrinations in Portland, Oregon”
Henrik Ernstson is an invited keynote lecturer at the upcoming Trier Summer University on “Decolonizing Urbanism: Transformative Perspectives”, Trier University, Germany June 6-12, 2017. Deadline for application January 31, 2017. For updated information Read more
German Quimbayo Ruiz reports on efforts to develop a Situated UPE approach in Latin America. His co-authored research article in the journal Ecología Política is in Spanish, so spread the message among our Read more
Kathleen Stokes reflects on waste management and political ecology in Cape Town. Kathleen is a PhD student in Human Geography at the University of Manchester with a research focuses on community Read more
We have received the great opportunity to screen out film “One Table Two Elephants” at Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany today 28 Septemeber 2016, 16:00-18:00. We thank Christof Mauch at Read more
PhD seminar in Stockholm on “Emancipation in an Urban Century: From more-than-human political moments to the figure of the Anthropo-ob(S)bene”, from 12-13 October, 9:00-12:00 both days is hosted by the KTH’s Environmental Read more
Call for Papers AAG2017. American Association of Geographers (AAG), Boston, April 5-9, 2017 Emancipatory Horizons of an Urban Century Session conveners: Henrik Ernstson (KTH and University of Cape Town) and Erik Read more
The Urban Action Lab (UAL) at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda has launched their website. The UAL is run by Professor Shuaib Lwasa and his team of urban researchers and Read more
As part of the effort to develop collaborations that help to transverse and put in dialogue science and humanities, Martin Avila travelled to Tartu, Estonia (September 1-3) to meet with Read more
How are values of contested urban green spaces articulated across cultural contexts such as Cape Town, New York and London? What is the relation between civics and urban designers in value articulation? A Read more
