“Portrait of an Arctic Research Station”
Flora Mary Bartlett captures the flows between lab and landscape through photographic exploration.
Flora Mary Bartlett captures the flows between lab and landscape through photographic exploration.
The essay acquaints readers with an ecocritical approach to comics by close reading three recent “ecocomics” with an emphasis on thematic and formal features.
This podcast discusses the work of the archaeologist Niède Guidon and the traces of the first humans in the Americas.
Reflections on curating the virtual exhibition Amitav Ghosh in Munich by Franziska Bax.
Sometimes the link between environmental issues and creative action is a matter of personal expression. In “One Woman’s Waste Is Another Woman’s Treasure,” Regina M. Bichler, a waste and sustainability researcher, interviews the artist Kim Curtis on using environmental struggles and successes as artistic inspiration. Their conversation spans Curtis’s multimedia artworks, political strategies for minimizing environmental harms, and the roles that individuals must play in crafting ecological futures.
In “Mapped Futures, Vanishing Places,” literary scholar Kumiko Kiuchi portrays the simple act of walking as an opportunity to inherit shared memory. Her writing takes off from Tokyo’s artificial waterfront into a creative space stretching from past generations into imagined futures, reminding us to remain “attentive to what cannot be fully possessed or understood.”