Focus on the Zen question: “What can we not do?” Not cut down weeds, not tidy up derelict ground, not plan, organise, manage and control parts of our cities. Asking how an open source ethos might affect urban living. Read the rest of the article in the Vancouver Observer here. Oliver Kellhammer is leading a week-long investigation into... Continue Reading →
FIELD_NOTES – Cultivating Ground
Call for professional collaborators FIELD_NOTES - Cultivating Ground Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Kilpisjärvi/ Lapland/ Finland. 26. September – 2. October 2011 Deadline 30th of June 2011 Organized by the Finnish Bioart Society in the context of the Ars Bioarctica project together with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station. “ Field_Notes – Cultivating Grounds” is a week long... Continue Reading →
Death of ecoactivists
Hi Sacha I write with tragic news to inform you that Maria do Espirito Santo da Silva, arts-educator, eco-pedagogue activist, grandmother and student-participant in our teacher education project Voices of the Land based in the Federal University of Para, was assassinated with her husband Jose da Silva, on the 24th May, near to her forest... Continue Reading →
Steep Trail
Polarcap, the curatorial project of Liz Adamson and Graeme Todd, has established Basecamp on the legacy of John Muir, one of Scotland's most important environmentalists. Polarcap is located in Dunbar, where Muir came from (though he is most frequently associated with the National Parks of North America). Today and tomorrow a group of scientists and... Continue Reading →
Synth-ethic vs Vandana Shiva
Synth-ethic: Art and Synthetic Biology Exhibition at the Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria. Synthetic biology is at the scientific cutting edge, but also on the ethical edge. The works in this exhibition explore that edge. The curatorial essay starts with the principle that synthesis is one of the fundamental practices within art. As the exhibition... Continue Reading →
halo-station.org
halo-station.org rethinking energy-body-technology. HALO is an autonomous in energy station, a mobile installation to set up in the public space. It is being built with different phases and versions since 2008, following an ethic in eco-conception in the elaboration of the projects. Halo is conceived as an immersive and interactive experience, being connected in real... Continue Reading →

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