SITUATED ECOLOGIES gathers art, design and research collaborations to contest and democratise ecologies.

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We won the MIT Press Library Award! Our recently published edited book Grounding Urban Natures: Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies (2019, MIT Press) can now be downloaded #OpenAccess as Read more

How to organize anew the articulation between emancipatory theory and political activism? This is the central organising theme in this edited volume. It represents a major effort and lots of Read more

The Ways of Knowing Urban Ecologies project started in 2011 and finished in December 2016. Below follows the final report I submitted to the funder Formas and some additional notes. The project Read more

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  We have recently submitted several publications based on empirical data generated in Cape Town and New Orleans as part of the MOVE project.    Joshua Lewis from the Tulane University’s new Read more

How  are values of contested urban green spaces articulated across cultural contexts such as Cape Town, New York and London? What is the relation between civics and urban designers in value articulation? A Read more

Photo by Alicia Nijda, Wikimedia Commons

A new publication from our Situated UPE Collective was just published in Regional Studies by Mary Lawhon, Jonathan Silver, Henrik Ernstson and Joseph Pierce. It continues our contribution to Urban Political Read more

Marnie Graham successfully defended her PhD thesis at Stockholm University on “Postcolonial Nature Conservation and Collaboration” on the 27th of February 2015. Her study is part of our “Ways Of Knowing Read more

Greening Berlin by Jens Lachmund

Henrik Ernstson just published a review of the book Greening Berlin by Jens Lachmund in the journal Science and  Technology Studies (full review here).The book which is published by MIT Press Read more

Authors in the Grounding Urban Natures book project in the Ways of Knowing Urban Nature project.

The book project on ‘Contested Urban Natures’ (and here) with case studies across the world is moving forward. We had a great workshop in June with the authors. The workshop was integrated with Read more