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

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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

Bruce Baigrie and Henrik Ernstson have just published a critique of “eco-estates” in GroundUp (online magazine) based on an initial study in Nordhoek, Cape Town.   In this piece we do 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

Dr. Henrik Ernstson and Dr. Jia-Ching Chen are organizing an ambitious conference at Stanford on the meeting between environmental scientists, global South urbanists and STS scholar on the “Urban Beyond 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

Swedish filmer Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson report on their film project in Cape Town that deals with knowledge and urban nature. Filming will take place in Cape Town in January and March, with planned Read more

Marnie Graham reflects with her supervisors on being a co-tutelle PhD student at Stockholm and Macquarie Universities, and part of the Ways of Knowing Urban Ecologies project. Her primary supervisors are Dr Read more

You can now listen to Henrik Ernstson’s key note at the Portland State University in the beginning of April 2014. The so called Webinar is posted at the following link (try this link first, Read more

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Pippin Anderson, Georgina Avlonitis and Henrik Ernstson has just published a paper that compares the ecological effects of green space rehabilitation projects by experts and civics in Cape Town (paper). The Read more