Environmental Storytelling Collaboration with KCET
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Projects - Ursula K. Heise
Holoscenes/Anthroposcene Suite 1 by Lars Jan
Holoscenes is a multi-platform artwork colliding the human body with water. The work includes performance installation, video, photographic, and print components. The Anthropocene Suite is a quartet of projections featuring multiple performers carrying out a series of everyday behaviors while animated by several thousand gallons of water in an aquarium-like sculpture. Their behaviors are transformed...
Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species
Current rates of species extinction exceed the evolutionary background rate, and some biologists claim we are witnessing the sixth mass extinction in the history of life on Earth. Imagining Extinction by Ursula K. Heise (University of Chicago Press, 2016) analyzes the narratives that shape public and expert debates about the extinction crisis to argue that biodiversity...
Urban Biodiversity: Cultures, Stories, Taxonomies
Cities have recently begun to attract the attention of ecologists and biologists as ecosystems whose functioning is not as yet well understood. Urban ecosystems combine ecological processes with social practices and technological structures whose analysis requires a combination of disciplinary tools and concepts from biology, ecology, sociology, cultural studies, and urban studies (including architecture, design,...
LENS Magazine
LENS Magazine, hosted on Medium.com, is home to essays, photography & art, criticism, stories, theory & practice and interviews curated by the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS). Medium.com is a social journalism platform that aims to tap into the brains of the world’s most insightful writers, thinkers, and storytellers to bring readers the smartest...