Five artists explore humanity’s relationship with soil. From the microscopic, to the mountain-sized - the film unpacks the life cycle of soil across the world and how we can reconnect with the ground that sustains us.

Three-part series exploring soil through the lens of art as part of Somerset House's exhibition - 'SOIL: The World at Our Feet'.

Writing & research examining soil from many angles – ecological, historical, agricultural, political, and philosophical.

Björk and microbiologist Merlin Sheldrake unite for ‘Fungi: Web of Life’, a 3D film in which the beauty and ecological importance of fungi unfurls.

Museums and the Climate Crisis shows how museums can respond to the interrelated global climate, biodiversity and pollution crises.

Aroma is the primary language of trees. They talk with molecules, conspiring with one another, beckoning fungi, scolding insects, and whispering to microbes.

An unusual artistic material, soil embodies the metabolic processes by which all life begins and ends

The Art Institution of Tomorrow is a unique manifesto for raising the standard of institutional practices across the world.

We already have evidence that rock dust can remove carbon dioxide from the air – now there are signs that spreading the dust on farm fields also enhances crop growth

This sonic journey written and narrated by David G. Haskell brings us to the very beginning of sound and song on planet Earth.

Artist duo Ackroyd & Harvey speak with grassroots organizers about the transformative power of art in reframing our relationship—and proximity—to nature.

Dark Skies addresses a significant gap in knowledge in relation to perspectives from the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The book brings together engagements with dark skies from a multidisciplinary backgrounds.

Exploring the many kinds of selves that compose our breathing biosphere, cultural ecologist David Abram and mycologist Merlin Sheldrake assert the selfhood and agency of the fluxing multitudes with whom we share the Earth.

Insects may be finding it harder to locate flowers because the scent molecules released by the flowers smell different after they react with pollutants in the air.

Most AI-based artists work exclusively in front of their computers. Sougwen Chung is different: they train robots to physically paint in tandem with them on massive canvases.

From the reciprocity of trees to the long view of volcanoes to the patience of spiders, The Overview illuminates the wisdom of the Earth and its many teachers.

A conversation between Emergence Magazine editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, renowned mycologist Merlin Sheldrake, and Marshmallow Laser Feast creative director Barney Steel exploring the mycelial webs that infiltrate and sustain our landscapes.

David Blandy and Larry Achiampong present their first permanent public artwork at the new UCL East campus.

Excerpt from the open-access journal Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation.

For decades distressed polar bears on distant ice caps were an emblem for climate change – until experts began to doubt the effectiveness of these visuals.

An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where - and how - we live.

From nine-tailed foxes to a creature modelled after her dog, Xa uses unusual animals to explore human society.

A collaboration with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, this multi-day symposium uses the themes of RE/SISTERS to explore the bonds between gender and environmental justice.

Ahead of the organisation’s report into the state of our flora and fungi, its director of science talks about his work as a biogeographer and how our diet can make a difference.

Episode No. 2 – Chemical Legacies and Theories of Colour

Edna Bonhomme interviews Rupa Marya, co-author of Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice.

For Frieze London 2022, Platform Earth presented a new artwork by Es Devlin. Devlin explains the inspirations behind the piece, and her fundamental hopes for new ecological horizons in design thinking.

In this talk, given at Emergence’s recent Shifting Landscapes retreat held at Sharpham Trust in Devon, England, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee offers a frame for how we might navigate our current moment of unprecedented transition and transformation.

Looe Island is a case study in how to boost biodiversity, a place where the wardens, Claire Lewis and her partner, Jon Ross, are the only residents, alongside gulls, godwits and comma butterflies.

Conjuring the movements of migrating salmon, cranes, and butterflies, cultural ecologist David Abram intuits the sensory exchange that guides them across the wider body of the Earth.

Away from the screens of the mainstream media, the crude ‘bigger is better’ narrative that has dominated economic thinking for centuries is being challenged.

What happens when humans and robots make art together? In this awe-inspiring talk, artist Sougwen Chung shows how she "taught" her artistic style to a machine -- and shares the results of their collaboration.

In this conversation, artist and writer Jenny Odell points beyond the domination of clock time toward ways of being that are more in tune with the rhythms and patterns of the Earth.

TANK spoke to Sougwen Chung about cybernetics, generational shifts and the humanity that underpins all technological innovation.

TANK spoke to Gaia Vince about the economies of borders and how historical migrations have allowed humans to survive.

TANK spoke to Asad Raza about his recipe for soil, nature’s sublimity and how his upbringing in Buffalo, New York affected his views on intimacy.

TANK spoke to Kyriaki Goni about fighting extractive practices and the need for collaboration within process.

Travel into Slovenia’s landscape to learn how beekeepers and farmers are continuing to nurture this relationship in the face of climate change and habitat loss, finding new ways to nourish the land.

A symposium chaired by Ros Gray and hosted by MA Art & Ecology and the Critical Ecologies research stream with Taru Elfving, FRAUD, Matterlurgy and Lotta Petronella.

ChatGPT’s recommendations for writing an exhibition review are nothing if not uncritical, and yet they are unmistakably of the moment.

David Hinton works are informed by ancient Chinese philosophy and deep ecological thought. In this interview, David discusses his book 'Wild Mind, Wild Earth', which looks to ancient ways of being to ground the environmental movement.

Launching a million tonnes of moon dust around Earth could dim sunlight across our planet by 1.8 per cent. This would reduce the global temperature, but whether it would be worth the resources is unclear.

Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg on The Lost Rhino.

In this expansive interview, writer, artist, and technologist James Bridle seeks to widen our thinking beyond humancentric ways of knowing.

Linguists calculate that at the current speed, almost half of the world’s 7,151 languages will disappear before the end of this century. This timeline is an incomplete account of language politics in many parts of the world.

A reading list from the fifth season of the Politics of Food at Delfina foundation, formed of recommendations from residents.

To play: create a new myth to try to explain the mystery of the universe, from the perspective of an ant. Suitable for all ages, from 2 to 100 players.

In Forest Dreaming, you will experience a guided yoga nidra meditation that explores the connections between language, ecology, and consciousness.

The Empire Christmas Pudding was a well-known “gastronomic paradox”: the most English of dishes made from the most un-English of ingredients.

This recipe for Moon milk is inspired by the ayurvedic tradition. The combination of ingredients and flavours weave together scientific and folk knowledge* designed to support the body as the solstice approaches and days grow ever shorter.

In this second episode of our three-part mini series, Delfina Foundation resident Derek Tumala unravels the significance of rice in our lives and how climate and current conditions are mutating this staple food which he grew up with.

Ellen Percival, botanist, mycologist, medicine maker, psychedelic welfare worker and DJ, unexpectedly passed away on 6 May 2022. We share their 'Guide to Seasonal Fungi' from the Ignota Diary here.

Many of the world’s most inspiring solutions have been created by scientists who stole their ideas from the natural world.

David G. Haskell invites us into the unique and sometimes surprising aromas of eleven different species of trees.

In this in-depth interview, Suzanne Simard—the renowned scientist who discovered the “wood-wide web”—speaks about Mother Trees, kin recognition, and how to heal our separation from the living world.

The war in Ukraine has encouraged a rush to exploit more fossil fuels, but there are still positive signs of climate action ahead of the COP27 climate summit in Egypt.

Agriculture, protests and demonstrations in Mexico.

In this first episode of our three-part mini series, Delfina Foundation resident L. Sasha Gora narrates a series of vignettes, observing how salt is woven into our lives, bodies and environments.

Producers have few direct incentives to build products to last, to make them easy to repair, to use less packaging, or to make their goods or packaging easy to reuse, recycle or compost.

What can artists, musicians, magical thinkers and weirdos bring to machine learning and neural networks? Exploring these questions and more is K Allado-McDowell, leader of Google’s Artists and Machine Intelligence programme.

A conversation with Ginsberg, Cooper Hewitt curator Andrea Lipps, and conservationist Dr. Kent Redford about digital media, including artificial intelligence, to address biodiversity loss and bioengineering ethics.

Understanding how we—life on earth—observe the world now may help us imagine the ways in which an extraterrestrial, even non-DNA-based life-form might perceive its environment.

Bbefore there were trees, flowers and before life existed outside of the oceann, mosses ventured onto dry land. In this special Earth Week episode Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass, takes a long view of life on Earth.

Blue-green algae, a type of cyanobacteria, set in a container on a windowsill powered a computer continuously for six months using photosynthesis.

The Turner Prize nominees put the politics of food firmly on the menu. Madeleine Morley speaks to the pair about the ingredients for an alternative future.

Inspired by the lapidaries of the ancient world, this is a beautifully designed collection of true stories about sixty different stones that have influenced our shared history.

We hack almost 100 billion tonnes of stuff from Earth’s surface every year, and most of it goes to waste. Changing that means a complete overhaul of how we live.

Pauline is a composer and accordionist who significantly contributed to the development of electronic music. The culmination of her life-long fascination with music and sound inspired the practice of Deep Listening.

A conversation with Katie Patrick, an environmental engineer and software designer based in San Francisco. Katie works at the intersection of environmental behaviour, gamification, and technology, to tackle complex environmental issues.

The Art Angle Podcast: MoMA Curator Paola Antonelli on Design for the Post-Pandemic World. On this week's episode, the curator weighs in on video games, design theory, and the future of offices.

Curator Florence Ostende discusses the 'Noguchi' exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. Filmed at the Barbican Centre to coincide with the exhibition which is Isamu Noguchi's first touring retrospective in Europe for 20 years.

Feral Atlas is a five-year curatorial project by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena and Feifei Zhou, involving over 100 scientists, humanists and artists who seek to examine the un-designed effects of human infrastructures.

Mycorrhizal fungal networks are a major global carbon sink. When we destroy them, we sabotage our efforts to limit global heating.

As a kickoff to a series of conversations, the online conference Art Institutions in the Age of Existential Risks: What to Do? hosts international experts explore whether art and culture can play a role in solving these existential crises.

Planetary challenges are putting the world’s population through an existential test: How is one to find strength, inspiration, and hope in a moment in which weakness, cynicism, and despair seem so easy to surrender to?

Some people think we could easily build and identify a conscious robot, while others insist that it’s impossible – it all depends on what you think consciousness is.

As four researchers embark on an expedition to drill ice cores in the Arctic in subzero temperatures, the presence of these visitors is witnessed by Utuqaq—ice that lasts year after year.

Through drawings, thought experiments, recipes, instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, 140 artists have come together in a publication dedicated to the environment and the climate emergency.

Is encouraging action still art? What does it mean to make art about the environment? Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough brings together a curator, researchers and artists to discuss these questions.

The Psychedelic Drug Trial follows a ground-breaking new trial at Imperial College London.

Bianka Hofmann describes designing an artist-in-residence project within a research institute for applied science as a dialogue-oriented form of science communication and education.

With the opening of 'Ghost Forest' at Madison Square Park, the artist and architect discusses memory and ecology with Frieze Senior Editor Evan Moffitt.

In this in-depth interview, Dr. Suzanne Simard— who discovered the “wood-wide web”—speaks about mother trees, kin recognition, and how to heal our separation from the living world.

For many Native American communities, understandings of family, fertility, and “collective continuance” are closely rooted to the protection, preservation, and revitalization of native seeds.

Peter Wohlleben, a German forester and author says yes, and his ideas are shaking up the scientific world.

Back to Earth artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg discusses the concept behind her upcoming pollinator project with Serpentine’s Curator of Exhibitions and Design, Rebecca Lewin.

We are living in the era of the mushroom. Recent studies of mycelium have confirmed its ability to send and receive communication between fungi, trees and other plants.

Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen work across objects, installation and film that explore processes of production as cultural, personal and political practices. They work and live in London.

One December, in midsummer South Africa, Tim Dee was watching swallows. They were at home there, but the same birds would soon begin journeying north to Europe, where their arrival marks the beginning of spring.

In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Roland Griffiths about the current state of research on psychedelics.

Not every artwork needs to be about the climate crisis. Nor should it be. That being said, with a recent, sharp increase in climate-change as a topic for artworks and exhibitions, it is necessary to address a sizable gap.

Factories and other businesses have remained shuttered. Coal-use at power plants is at a four-year low. Oil and steel production are both lower than at any point since the Chinese economy suffered a slowdown in 2015.

Humanity’s place in the natural order is under scrutiny as never before, held in a precarious balance between visible and invisible forces: from the microscopic threat of a virus to the monumental power of climate change.

Vaughan Judge argues that to conjure the notion of the artist as the solitary genius is determinative of the way we think of creativity, and that notion is decades out of date. Today’s society doesn’t reward us for what us know, but for what you can do with that knowledge, and that is the mindset of an artist. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx