NATURARCHY EXHIBITION
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Born from two years of deep inquiry, research and co-creation between artists, scientists and policymakers, which began with a summer school at JRC in 2022 and continued with artistic residencies at JRC in 2023, the art and science works on show at the NaturArchy exhibition probed issues of deep ecology, sustainability and the decolonisation of nature.
Querying the entanglement of human and non-human, green technologies and new materials, nature and law, ecology and economy, ancient and new knowledge, the show questioned established points of view, the relationship between human and environment and sense of place and belonging to the world.
The result? An exploration of new possible configurations of the world and powerful reflections on the current environmental crisis.
You’ll find lovely reviews of NaturArchy on RTBF (FR); National Geographic Spain (ES) and more about the works and the show online.
Don’t miss the article "Rights Revolutions to Save Nature" by David Boyd - former UN rapporteur for Human Rights & Environment - just published on the JRC SciArt website, the first in the series of instalments of catalogue texts which will go live in 2025 leading up to the catalogue publication.
Link to Exhibition page.
EVENTS
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We’ve held some really exciting performances on eco-grief and indigeneity, workshops on human rights and climate change histories, discussions on the role of art-science for wildfire resilience and for soil literacy. We’ve also been happy for our projects to feature at conferences, showings and events across the world – from Belgium, Spain and Colombia.
Browse through these activities and more on the Events page.
MEDIA ARCHIVE
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All recordings of our conferences and events are available online. From decolonising the nuclear anthropocene to postgrowth, to ecological jurisprudence. From soil literacy to lithium mining, to art-science-policy collaborations.
Browse the media archive, podcasts and radio shows for some exciting stuff!
PUBLICATIONS
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Art Dreams for the New European Bauhaus – check out the beautiful artist book on visions of the NEB. Now available for free online download are the Resonances III datami catalogue and the Science-Art for Transdisciplinary Education report. And we are excited about contributions to the JRC’s Innovation for place-based transformations toolkit and published scientific paper on Nature & AI.
Link to Publications & Resources page.
UPCOMING
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Spin offs of existing projects, such as Plastic Magnitudes & Synocene, as well as future showings of artworks across EU institutions and cultural spaces in Europe and beyond make us excited for the year to come. The NaturArchy exhibition catalogue, as well as new productions, including the recently launched artistic-research project NaturArchy Mapping Framework will keep us busy in 2025.
In fact, get in contact if you're a policymaker artist or scientist wanting to get involved in this project on alternative cartographies of nature and biodiversity, safeguarding and restoration.
THANK YOUs
No part of this process would have been possible without our fantastic collaborators and teams! So as the year draws to a close we would like to say heartfelt thank you to all of you:
Kristin Bergaust; Gala Berger; Penelope Cain; Yiannis Kranidiotis; Ingrid Mayrhofer-Hufnagl; Sam Nester; Nonhuman Nonsense; Ingrid Ogenstedt; Margherita Pevere; Giovanni Paolo Randazzo; Claus Lam Yong Schoening; Marina Wainer; JD Whitman; Jemma Woolmore; Alan Belward; Alba Bernini; Danijela Brkovic; Caterina Cacciatori; Graziano Ceddia; Sandra Coecke; Frank Dentener; Luca de Felice; Isabelle Hupont Torres; Guillermo Garcia Sanchez; Jaime Gomez-Ramirez; Irene Guerrero Fernandez; Lucia Iglesias Blanco; Arwyn Jones; Julian Keimer; Jonah Lynch; Ana Montero Castano; Marisa Sarria Pereira de Passos; Jessica Ponti; Elahe Rajabiani, Calogero Schillaci; Andrea Valsesia; Saskia Vermeylen; Diana Vieira; Evangelos Voukouvalas; Marina Xenophontos; Claudia Schnugg; Ingeborg Reichle; Céline Charvériat; Paul Dujardin; the whole iMAL team; Ariane Koek; Athena Latocha; Metsa Rama; Santa Comba Dao Community; Kat Austen; Ele Carpenter; Sofia Greaves; Roberto Paci Dalò; Jol Thoms; Sabine van der Hoorn; Stephen Davies; JRC Soil Team & JRC Citizen Engagement Team & all the other humans and non-humans who have supported these amazing endeavours throughout these past years!
INSPIRATIONS
We love to be inspired so here are some of our new favourite finds to enjoy over the holidays:
Tuberous Respect after Progress | Praising Verses and Potato Flourishing in the Andean Highlands
Venice Declaration for Ocean Literacy in Action
Cultivating Futures Thinking in Museums (Book)
& a winter-y postcard from the mountains around Lake Maggiore!