TAI-E3159 - Ecology in Theory, Practice & Everyday Life 1, Lecture, 12.1.2022-16.2.2022

Hello everybody, 

In this folder are PDF’s with readings for 9 March- 16 March

Main text

You have three choices. Read what works best for you?

EITHER

Making Time for Soil 
Maria Puig de la Belacasa 
On Time, Care and Soil

This essay lays out some of the main parameters in MPDlB’s book Matters of Care But it is a little heavy going. This is primarily for those interested in soil and cultures of care.

OR

Composting Feminisms

Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Astrida Niemanis

A more accessible introduction to key actors in the field of contemporary collaborative, ecological feminist thought 

OR

‘Nothing comes without its world’:thinking with care

Maria Puig de la Belacasa

This is a more accessible text by Maria PDLB on care but no soil

Supplementary Reading

On language 

Alfian Bin Saat “Talking in Trees” in Antennae Vol 54 pp 106-110

In this very inspiring essay, Alfian Sa’at examines vegetal interventions in the Malay language and how it has been shaped by plants

(NB As with the previous you may enjoy scrolling through this volume of Antennae as there are many essays and artworks of relevance to this course)

ON Soil, Art Design (Aalto faculty)

“WORKING WITH SOIL Traces from the Anthropocene”

Riikka Latva-Somppi*, Maarit Mäkelä * and  özgü Gündeşlioğlu

In Ruuku Nr 14 Venice