The artistic research project WASTELAND by Daniel Fetzner and Martin Dornberg is a topological intersection of art, philosophy and media ecology in the anthropocene. It is creating sensory experiences in different aesthetic forms Read more
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Jan
SITUATED ECOLOGIES gathers art, design and research collaborations to contest and democratise ecologies.
All posts tagged UPE—Urban Political Ecology
Urban soils, artistic practice and Rancière. Writing from Portland, Oregon, Zbigniew Grabowski and Isaac Weiss invites us to an engaged art-science practice around urban sustainability. With a focus on urban soils they explore novel coordinates of how to Read more
Kathleen Stokes reflects on waste management and political ecology in Cape Town. Kathleen is a PhD student in Human Geography at the University of Manchester with a research focuses on community Read more
PhD seminar in Stockholm on “Emancipation in an Urban Century: From more-than-human political moments to the figure of the Anthropo-ob(S)bene”, from 12-13 October, 9:00-12:00 both days is hosted by the KTH’s Environmental Read more
Call for Papers AAG2017. American Association of Geographers (AAG), Boston, April 5-9, 2017 Emancipatory Horizons of an Urban Century Session conveners: Henrik Ernstson (KTH and University of Cape Town) and Erik Read more
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
See below some of the great papers tagged by Antipode to our Situated UPE paper from 2014. Here is a great collection for those interested in re-making the study of urban political Read more
On 30 September Henrik Ernstson will give a talk at a seminar in Paris on environmental stewardship. Invited by Nathali Blanc at LADYSS Université Paris-Diderot, he reflects below on how the talk Read more
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Aug
A new research collaboration on waste in South African cities has been funded by the UK’s ESRC-DFID. It is lead by Erik Swyngedouw, Mary Lawhon and Henrik Ernstson. This three-year project Read more
The “Cape Town Civic Network Study” is a research project based on a social network survey that focuses on the urban environment and environmental justice. We have interviewed over 130 civil society Read more
