Xplora LibGuides: Diversity dialogues: Environment, Activism & Diversity

Books

Against the Anthropocene door T. J. Demos
Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design door Beatriz Colomina; Mark Wigley
Arts of living on a damaged planet
ghosts and monsters of the anthropocene
Capitalist Realism door Mark Fisher
Decolonial Ecologies
The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art
Decolonizing nature
contemporary art and the politics of ecology
Design, Ecology, Politics door Joanna Boehnert
Entangled Ecologies As Metaphors of State Design
Facing Gaia door Bruno Latour
Green graphic design
Living earth 
field notes from the Dark Ecology project 2014-2016
Perception of the Environment
Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill
Staying with the Trouble door Donna J. Haraway
The Geography of Environmental Crime door Gary R. Potter (Editor); Angus Nurse (Editor); Matthew Hall (Editor)
The mushroom at the end of the world
on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins
The Responsible Object door Marjanne Van Helvert (Editor)
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change
Hoe gaan we dit uitleggen
Onze toekomst op een steeds warmere aarde
Should We All Be Vegan? The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production AwardsAs concern grows over the environmental costs and ethical implications of intensive factory farming, an increasing number of us are embracing diets and lifestyles free from animal products. Has the time now arrived for us all to reject the exploitation of animals completely and become vegan? Would adopting a wholly plant-based diet be beneficial for our health? How would a majority vegan population affect the global economy and the planet? Does it make any sense to go flexitarian or vegetarian? Molly Watson explores the history, rationale and impact of veganism on an individual, social and global level, and assesses the effects of a mass change in diet on our environment, the economy and our health.
ISBN: 9780500295038
Uncommon Ground door William Cronon A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics. In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature in our malls through the Nature Company, and the disputes between working people and environmentalists over spotted owls and other objects of species preservation. The problem is that we haven't learned to live responsibly in nature. The environmentalist aim of legislating humans out of the wilderness is no solution. People, Cronon argues, are inextricably tied to nature, whether they live in cities or countryside. Rather than attempt to exclude humans, environmental advocates should help us learn to live in some sustainable relationship with nature. It is our home.
ISBN: 0393315118
After Us the Deluge door Kadir van Lohuizen - The disastrous consequences of rising sea levels in six regions around the world are captured in photographs that are both beautiful and disturbing - With contributions from experts such as Marjan Minnesma (Netherlands), Jeff Goodell (USA), Dorthe Dahl-Jenssen (Greenland, Arctic), Henk Ovink and others In After Us The Deluge, Dutch photographer Kadir van Lohuizen, co-founder of the photo agency NOOR Images, shows the consequences of rising sea levels for mankind. He traveled to six different regions in the world (Greenland, US, Bangladesh, the Netherlands, UK, and the Pacific) and captured the effects of global warming. The resulting photo essay is thought-provoking, illuminating, and aesthetically impactful. Each chapter includes a contribution from a local expert that addresses the specific problems in their region.
ISBN: 9789401473590
Textures of the Anthropocene, 4-Vol. Set Texts and textures: approaching an age of human-made nature through the particulate, the volatile, and the radiant. We have entered the Anthropocene era--a geological age of our own making, in which what we have understood to be nature is made by man. We need a new way to understand the dynamics of a new epoch. These volumes offer writings that approach the Anthropocene through the perspectives of grain, vapor, and ray--the particulate, the volatile, and the radiant. The first three volumes--each devoted to one of the three textures--offer a series of paired texts, with contemporary writers responding to historic writings. A fourth volume offers a guide to the project as a whole. Grain: Granular materials add up to concrete forms; insignificant specks accumulate into complex entities. The texts in this volume narrate some of the fundamental qualities of the granular. In one pairing of texts, Robert Smithson compares the accumulation of thoughts to the aggregation of sediment, and an environmental historian writes about the stakes for earthly knowledge today. Other authors include Alfred Russel Wallace, Denis Diderot, and Georges Bataille. Vapor: The vaporous represents matter's transformations. In this volume, a political scientist compares Kafka's haunting "Odradek" to "vibrant matter"; a media theorist responds to poems and diagrams by Buckminster Fuller; and more, including texts by Hippocrates, Italo Calvino, and James Clerk Maxwell. Ray: A ray is an act of propagation and diffusion, encompassing a chain of interdependencies between energy and matter. This volume includes texts by Spinoza (with a reconceptualization by a contemporary philosopher), Jacques Lacan (followed by an anthropologist's reflections on temporality), Thomas Pynchon (accompanied by an interpretation of Pynchon's "electro-mysticism"), and others. These volumes constitute a unique experiment in design and composition as well as content. The mingling of texts and the juxtaposition of different areas of knowledge represented in a variety of forms express the dynamics of a world in change.
ISBN: 9780262527415
The future is fungi
ISBN: 9781760761608
Ecologisch wezen
Art and Ecology Now door Andrew Brown 'Eco' awareness has had an enormous impact, not least in the art world. This accessible and thought-provoking book is the first in-depth exploration of the ways in which contemporary artists are confronting nature, the environment, climate change and ecology. The book moves through the various levels of artists' engagement, from those who act as independent commentators, documenting and reflecting on nature, to those who use the physical environment as the raw material for their art, and those committed activists who set out to make art that transforms both our attitudes and our habits. More than 340 illustrations feature the work of 95 artists and art collectives from all over the world, including 'The Artist as Family', Nyaba Leon Ouedraogo, Yao Lu, Tue Greenfort, Eva Jospin, Ravi Agarwal, Nadav Kander, Naoya Hatakeyama, Tattfoo Tan, Berndnaut Smilde, Simon Starling, and Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla.
ISBN: 9780500239162
Publicatiedatum: 2014-05-20
Can We Save the Planet? door Alice Bell The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production Awards The effects of global warming are being felt around the world through climate change, and images of our rivers and oceans choking with plastic have provoked an instinctive horrified reaction. In response, governments, corporations and individuals are beginning to change their policies and behaviour - but is it too little, too late? Is it possible to reverse the damage we have done to the planet, or have we reached the point where we are only able to manage the problems and devastation caused? This engaging and incisive volume offers insightful analysis of a range of key issues including deforestation, global warming and single use plastics, while evaluating whether - and how - it may just be possible to mend our planet.
ISBN: 9780500295304
Design for the Real World door Victor Papanek Design for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In this edition, Victor Papanek examines the attempts by designers to combat the tawdry, the unsafe, the frivolous, the useless product, once again providing a blueprint for sensible, responsible design in this world which is deficient in resources and energy.
ISBN: 9780897331531
The Shock of the Anthropocene door Christophe Bonneuil; Jean-Baptiste Fressoz; David Fernbach (Translator) Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the "Anthropocene" The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years. How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a "human species" that upset the Earth system, unaware of what it was doing, this book proposes the first critical history of the Anthropocene, shaking up many accepted ideas: about our supposedly recent "environmental awareness," about previous challenges to industrialism, about the manufacture of ignorance and consumerism, about so-called energy transitions, as well as about the role of the military in environmental destruction. In a dialogue between science and history, The Shock of the Anthropocene dissects a new theoretical buzzword and explores paths for living and acting politically in this rapidly developing geological epoch.
ISBN: 9781784785031
Windflower door Marente Bloemheuvel (Editor); Toos van Kooten (Editor); Doris von Drathen (Text by); Ingrid Commandeur (Text by); Hans Ulrich Obrist (Text by) This catalogue gathers work that explores recent changes in the perception of nature. The 12 artists featured are Lothar Baumgarten, Mark Dion, Cai Guo Qiang, Peter Doig, Mario Garc a Torres, Kimsooja, Tetsumi Kudo, Charly Nijensohn, Yoko Ono, Marco Pando Quevedo, Willem de Rooij and Liang Shaoji.
ISBN: 9789056628369
Sema Bekirovic: Reading by Osmosis door Semâ Bekirovic (Artist); Sema Bekirovi (Text by); Michael Marder (Text by) Sema Bekirovic's art objects made by nature, including plants, animals, water and heat Dutch artist Sema Bekirovic's (born 1977) practice revolves around nonhuman art-making. For the works collected in Reading by Osmosis such as an overgrown fence, an underwater video, a battered disco ball Bekirovic minimizes her own contribution, sharing with nonhuman makers coots, heat, water, light.
ISBN: 9789462085169
Nature
ISBN: 9780854881963
Art as we don't know it
ISBN: 9789526088228
Art in the Anthropocene door Etienne Turpin; Heather Davis Taking as its premise that the proposed epoch of the Anthropocene is necessarily an aesthetic event, this collection explores the relationship between contemporary art and knowledge production in an era of ecological crisis. Art in the Anthropocene brings together a multitude of disciplinary conversations, drawing together artists, curators, scientists, theorists and activists to address the geological reformation of the human species. With contributions by Amy Balkin, Ursula Biemann, Amanda Boetzkes, Lindsay Bremner, Joshua Clover & Juliana Spahr, Heather Davis, Sara Dean, Elizabeth Ellsworth & Jamie Kruse (smudge studio), Irmgard Emmelhainz, Anselm Franke, Peter Galison, Fabien Giraud, & Ida Soulard, Laurent Gutierrez & Val rie Portefaix (MAP Office), Terike Haapoja & Laura Gustafsson, Laura Hall, Ilana Halperin, Donna Haraway & Martha Kenney, Ho Tzu Nyen, Bruno Latour, Jeffrey Malecki, Mary Mattingly, Mixrice (Cho Jieun & Yang Chulmo), Natasha Myers, Jean-Luc Nancy & John Paul Ricco, Vincent Normand, Richard Pell & Emily Kutil, Tomas Saraceno, Sasha Engelmann & Bronislaw Szerszynski, Ada Smailbegovic, Karolina Sobecka, Richard Streitmatter-Tran & Vi Le, Anna-Sophie Springer, Sylv re Lotringer, Peter Sloterdijk, Zoe Todd, Etienne Turpin, Pinar Yoldas, and Una Chaudhuri, Fritz Ertl, Oliver Kellhammer & Marina Zurkow. This book is also available as an open access publication through the Open Humanities Press: http: //openhumanitiespress.org/art-in-the-anthropocene.html
ISBN: 9781785420054
The Vertical Farm door Dickson Despommier; Majora Carter (Foreword by) "The vertical farm is a world-changing innovation whose time has come. Dickson Despommier's visionary book provides a blueprint for securing the world's food supply and at the same time solving one of the gravest environmental crises facing us today."--Sting Imagine a world where every town has their own local food source, grown in the safest way possible, where no drop of water or particle of light is wasted, and where a simple elevator ride can transport you to nature's grocery store - imagine the world of the vertical farm. When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big - he thoughtup.Despommier's stroke of genius, the vertical farm, has excited scientists, architects, and politicians around the globe. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Despommier explains how the vertical farm will have an incredible impact on changing the face of this planet for future generations. Despommier takes readers on an incredible journey inside the vertical farm, buildings filled with fruits and vegetables that will provide local food sources for entire cities. Vertical farms will allow us to: - Grow food 24 hours a day, 365 days a year - Protect crops from unpredictable and harmful weather - Re-use water collected from the indoor environment - Provide jobs for residents - Eliminate use of pesticides, fertilizers, or herbicides - Drastically reduce dependence on fossil fuels - Prevent crop loss due to shipping or storage - Stop agricultural runoff Vertical farms can be built in abandoned buildings and on deserted lots, transforming our cities into urban landscapes which will provide fresh food grown and harvested just around the corner. Possibly the most important aspect of vertical farms is that they can built by nations with little or no arable land, transforming nations which are currently unable to farm into top food producers. In the tradition of the bestsellingThe World Without Us,The Vertical Farmis a completely original landmark work destined to become an instant classic
ISBN: 9780312610692
Waar kunnen we landen? : politieke oriëntatie in het Nieuwe Klimaatregime
ISBN: 9789490334253
Vanuit de plant gezien : pleidooi voor een plantaardige planeet
ISBN: 9789029511377
Lost Landscapes Rotterdam landscape architects LOLA (LOst LAndscapes), winners of the Rotterdam-Maaskant Prize for Young Architects 2013, study landscapes that are forgotten, derelict or about to change, designing conceptual as well as buildable projects in the inner city.
ISBN: 9789462081062
Down to earth