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This is utterly brilliant! Daniel Christian Wahl and Nate Hagens in conversation. https://lnkd.in/efbkGPRv Daniel & Nate, the over arching topic of your fascinating discussion is exactly why, at Artecology, we are led by craft and not tech. It’s why, in our field, we view groovy tech as counterproductive and for us an unnecessary barrier between human touch and the natural world. It’s why we recognise our species-wide collective tendency for delusion and embrace it as a uniquely human trait that can be harnessed as super power for good if we want it to be. It’s why we created our ‘Shaping Better Places’ framework. It’s why we turned away from the pursuit of traditional business as usual investment. It’s why we too often find ourselves having to reframe the notion of scale to those who struggle to understand our counter-businesslike progress. It’s why environmental policymakers, regulators, scientists, academics, universities, schools, governments, local authorities, corporates, artists, creatives and communities of all types rock up at our tiny studio door on the Isle of Wight Biosphere Reserve wanting to be let in, …even though we don’t claim to have any answers to the big questions, …we just have our hands, our minds, some materials, our friends, a bunch of transferable techniques for crating small scale “intentional habitats” for wildlife, and a belief that we might help put people back in the biota by working at the intersection where the inner mindscape meets the outer landscape.

Colour gives us loads of information about nature, beauty, other people, and even perils that surround us. We often take colour for granted and can’t imagine the immense amount of evolutionary effort involved in that capacity. Have you ever wondered, what is colour? And why do we see in colour? In this article, we’ll talk about some of the science behind how and why we see in colour: https://hubs.ly/Q02ncKpc0 #naturalcolours #sensecolour

It's got green themes and Miyazaki inspired animation but is Scavenger's Reign solarpunk? We explore in our latest substack #solarpunk #anime

Human beings are world builders, but only more-than-humans make those worlds worth living in. 👇 Why do we see almost no more-than-human beings in dystopian worlds? And if they’re there, they either represent the only spark of hope, or all overtaking, all devouring force? Lost and broken connections with other humans, non-human animals, plants, land spirits, water, and our ecosystems are one of the key dystopian world symbols. The majority of humanity is living in that world already. We have a different approach at Sympoiesis. We want to create worlds with the more-than-human, with the multiplicity of species that make this planet worth living on. We want to be worlded by other species. We want to see this Earth through their eyes, their bodies, their intelligence. Multi-species and ecological imagination only seems to be radical only when we forget that our ancestors lived this way for thousands of years. There are 5 days left until our workshop at Atelier Gardens (Berlin) where we will explore what it means to step into the perspective of more than human beings and co-design our worlds alongside them. Join us! → Berlin workshop (30th October, 5-8 PM CET) https://lnkd.in/eXGWU_MJ → P.S. If you’re not in Berlin, join our online workshop (12th November, 5-7 PM CET) https://lnkd.in/eeAp9Z2b

To change the world, you must listen closely to things others might ignore. Did you know that biologists are listening closely to SOIL? 👂 New research by ecologists at Flinders University in Australia, recently covered by The Washington Post, shows that healthy soil is surprisingly noisy (links to article and research paper in comments). It's all part of an emerging field called #ecoacoustics. They describe the soil sounds as: "a bit like an underground #rave concert of bubbles and clicks, barely audible to the human ears. This chaotic mixture of soundscapes comes from the diversity of tiny living animals in the soil, which create sounds as they move and interact with their environment." If you were at GenerationFest by Thought For Food back in 2022, you already knew about all of this because you were listening to the groovy music we created using Soil Sounds!!! #aheadofthecurve ... #ünzünzünz. Generation Fest was the most creative and boundary-pushing event we have ever brought to life. One of the best parts was our full-sensory soil immersion, where we invited our audience to put on headphones and listen to soil sounds in a meditative space made out of mycelium and filled with rich organic soil. We played a soulful (soil full?) electronic music soundtrack that we produced using actual soil sounds captured with sensors. All to create a sense of wonder, awe, and appreciation for the amazingly intricate (and musical) galaxies of possibility that live beneath our feet. Enjoy this excerpt from our video featuring one of the "Soil Songs" alongside prose by our Poet-in-Residence, Peter Bickerton. 🍄🪱🦠 You can listen to all of the Soil Songs on your favorite platform - link below. 🧠If you want to learn how to listen closely to the earth's signals, I invite you to check out my book for change-makers, where I discuss this #SoilSounds project and many other examples of how science meets #creativity and #entrepreneurialspirit for impact.

Bioregionalism calls us to build a culture that places our societies in a web of life bigger than any of us — the community of each bioregion & the community of Earth. By making a long-term commitment to our “life-places,” we can grow a better future. https://hubs.ly/Q02vZSVt0

The care and maintenance of your supervisor. Get our Nature article on this topic here. #PhDforum #EMCRforum #research #academictwitter #PhDchat #ECRchat

Scientists from Trinity's School of Natural Sciences, led by Prof. JENNIFER MCELWAIN, have enlisted “Witness Trees” to track climate change and pinpoint which species can best clean our air. Every year for 30 years, the team -- working with colleagues in Trinity Botanic Garden at Dartry. Dublin and the NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDENS OF IRELAND -- will assess the trees' ability to capture smog from the atmosphere, by measuring the quantity of inhalabale (PM10 – relatively large particles) and fine inhalable particles (PM2.5 – relatively small particles) captured by each tree. And to assess the trees’ general health (and track how this changes with the environment), they will measure their “stomatal conductance”, which is the rate of exchange of water and CO2 between the plant and the atmosphere. As this is central to keeping the tree alive, it is a good indicator of general health. To read more about this fascinating #TrinityResearch and its aims, see: https://lnkd.in/e_Erh9S6

This week saw National Earth Day take over the globe, but what is 'Earth Day' and why does it matter? Tomorrow's blog post explores it's history and what it's doing to help the world that we live in? #Celys #Compostablepolyester #sustainablefabrics #Earthday

Tomorrow, together with Glenn Albrecht, Arita Baaijens and Yuki Kho among others, we will dive into the Symbiocene at A Lab Amsterdam. The era where humans live in co-existence with other life on earth. In my talk, I will explore how this new era could provide an answer to the problems of the Anthropocene, how our current environmental efforts fall short, and how this new era could take shape through different practices and perspectives. You are all welcome, just RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/esnVF9hC