finding vibrant ecologies
Instigated by the London Met Lab: Environment Initiative, Sian Moxon presents a series of talks will showcase the University’s environmental research to stimulate knowledge exchange and dialogue with public and practice audiences. This timely and important series will begin during the COP26 climate-change summit and continue its vital role of raising awareness of the environmental agenda through the year.
21 September 2021. Bloomsbury Studio, 15 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AH
Environmental justice movements in Latin America have been subject to disproportionate violence and persecution by the State and international corporations, with the region being heavily affected by extractivism, deforestation, industrial pollution, and global warming. However, during the past few years there have been some signs of progress too, leading to the rights of nature being enshrined in some constitutions. How is the filmic culture of the region responding to and engaging with these struggles? How are environmental activists using film and visual forms in the service of their goals? What new narratives of environmental activism and opposition to extractivism are emerging through film and video? What aesthetic and artistic languages are developing in response to activist agendas and concerns?
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Our guests Professor Kevin Fenton and Andrea Wright bring public health, medical, psychological and neuroscientific research, policy understanding and application, and practical and therapeutic experience to these questions of emotional ecology.
The Gingko Prize for Eco-Poetry is awarded on Wednesday, May 19 at 5 pm, when Poetry School live-streamed the Ginkgo Prize Ceremony 2020 from Richmond Park, with judge Simon Armitage, the UK Poet Laureate. The Ginkgo Prize 2020 Shortlist: Daniel Fraser, Jane Lovell, Emily Groves, Sue Kindon, Nicola Healey. Jane Lovell is the winner of the 2021 prize.
The Guardian has published an obituary of Bill Heal, a key figure in the establishment of the UK Environmental Change Network and known for collaborating on publishing Production Ecology of British Moors and Montane Grasslands (1978).
If you are interested in how trees talk to each other, try this TED talk by Prof Suzanne Simard of the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia or read her new book Finding the Mother Tree.
World-leading expert on dogs and transport and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney School of Architecture Design and Planning Dr Jennifer Kent investigates in Australian cities experiencing an increase in apartment living, whether dogs are being left behind.
Hazel Press tells us that Z. R. Ghani is a marvel, whose writing spans both poetry and prose. In this recording you’ll hear her read her piece Wires.
From a single tree and seed it reaches back through Deep Time and across and through the hyphae of connections to meadows and mindscapes. This is writing and a way of seeing ourselves in the world that is completely interdependent and connected.
