How can art, science and institutional practices counteract the negative consequences of climate and ecological breakdown? How can these practices and ideas advance systemic change? Worlding Ecologiesserves as an anthology of examples and wayward navigational tool, assembling eighteen authors exploring this question from their diverse backgrounds—as scientists, artists, philosophers, activists, theorists and curators—to rigorously approach urgent ecological challenges, including climate breakdown, pollution, biodiversity loss, environmental and social justice.
This book emphasizes the fundamental role of art as a vehicle and support structure for intersectional ecological thought. Whilst navigating imagination, worlding-possibility, science fact, social justice and climate action, the book prompts a fundamental role for art to create the blueprints for regenerative and sustainable more-than-human worlds. Structured alongside three sections—Science and Climate Truth; Activism and Climate Justice and Social Justice in Institutional Ecosystems—Worlding Ecologiesmoves from fieldwork-taking to patchwork-making, unifying the arts with science, politics and ecology into a field of synthetic thought and commitment.
Edited by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk and Eva Burgering Text contributions by Ursula Biemann, Federica Bueti, Eva Burgering, TJ Demos, Zoénie Liwen Deng, Jeff Diamanti, Lisa Doeland, Taru Elfving, Sami Hammana, Christopher F. Julien, Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk, Michael Marder, Chus Martinéz, Victoria McKenzie, Margarida Mendes, Vincent Normand, Filipa Ramos, Jessica Ullrich Designed by Wibke Bramesfeld Published by Valiz, Amsterdam, in partnership with RADIUS, Center for Contemporary Art and Ecology, Delft Printed by Wilco Art Books, Amersfoort Supported by the Mondriaan Fund, Gieskes-Strijbis Fonds, Cultuurfonds, M.A.O.C. Gravin van Bylandt Stichting
Softcover 256 pages 24 x 17 cm English Released in 2024 ISBN 978-94-93246-34-8
