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An Introduction to Biospherics

Mark Nelson

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Les Maitres Foux (The Mad Masters)

Adam Broomberg and Guy de Lancey

Image by Benjamin Davies

An Introduction to Place

Robert Hampson

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Visual Art Practice

Allen Fisher

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Spiritual Exercises and Militant Research

Boris Gunjevic

Reflection Collage

The Museum of Loneliness

Chris Petit

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Fragments – Photography and Literature

Christopher Stewart and Esther Teichmann

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Poetry and the Republic, 1770-1880: Making, Participation and Representation in an Age of Revolutions

Corinna Russell

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Learning to be Better Lovers: Forest Thinking in a Forest City

Katie Holten

Winding Forest Road

Pedagogical Roots and Routes: A Radical Approach to Reading

Hugo Azérad

Image by Chase Yi

Creative Writing / Critical Seeing

Michael Hrebeniak

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Transformation: Text and Translation

Robin Kirkpatrick

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Encounter as Astonishment: Walking/Reading/Making

Michael Hrebeniak and Others

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Attention, Imagination, Reflection: Three Spiritual Responses

Valentin Gerlier

Critical Animism

Simone Kotva

BBC Arena: Respond and Create

Anthony Wall and Michael Hrebeniak

Image by Tom Keldenich

The Cultures of Ecology and Place

Michael Hrebeniak and Others

Dante et al: From the Polis to the Urban

Robin Kirkpatrick

Image by Anton Eprev

Environmental Journalism

Terry Macalister

Literature and Environment in France in the 18th and 19th Centuries

David McCallam

Patchwork Thinking

Isabelle McNeill

'Polis is This:' Space, Community and Biology, 1955-75

Michael Hrebeniak

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Post-War London: Transgressive City

Michael Hrebeniak and Others

Image by Pawel Czerwinski

Experimental Voice Work

Sophie Seita

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The Mouthpiece of the Gods: Reconstructive Music Archaeology

John Kenny

Image by Daniele Franchi

Screen-Based / Immersive Storytelling

Shreepali Patel

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Sitopia: How Food Can Change the World

Carolyn Steele

Natural Minerals

Sludge & Rocks: a Making Task

Giles Smith, Amica Dall, Jane Hall (Assemble Studio)

Image by Sacha T'Sas

Wild Swimming

Isabelle McNeill, Kate Mitchell

Image by Steve Payne

Adapation, Topography, Memory

Victor Rees

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Séance Fiction

James Riley

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Art, Body, Fashion, Planet

Kathy Battista

Image by James Wheeler

Readings in Carbon Ruins

Critical Environments

Pollution

Environmental Storytelling

Robert Newton

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On Nature: Convergences of Ancestral Wisdom with the New Ecological Paradigms

Pablo Friedlander

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Thinking through Medicine

Lydie Fialová

Image by Nitish Kadam

Waterlines: Migration, Ecology, Mythology

Davina Quinlivan

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Ephemera, Etcetera ...Thinking through Gathering

Emily Fitzell

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Sanctuary

Marina Warner

Racism Promises Survival for Some - But Really Means Death for All

Gargi Bhattacharyya

Image by Markus Spiske

Social Environmental Justice and the Role of Law

Michael Mansfield, Lorna Hackett

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Movement as Praxis

Gessie Houghton

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Escaping Hyperconsumption

Gerard Hastings

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Animism, Activism and the Rights of Nature movement

Robert Macfarlane

Image by Levi Meir Clancy

Stories in Transit

Clelia Bartoli & Marina Warner

Image by Matthew Henry

To transform the ecosystem, it’s necessary to transform the global economic system

Ann Pettifor

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Educating for the Anthropocene: Schooling and Activism in the Face of Slow Violence

Peter Sutoris

Image by George Prentzas

Two Workshops:
1. AI: History / Trajectory / Politics / Power
2. Sensing Ideology

Eleanor Dare

Image by Heather Wilde

The World is a Verb

Sarah Elisa Kelly

Rose Blossom

How to Do Nothing

Sarah Elisa Kelly

Image by Jossuha Théophile

The Poetics of Deep Time

Hugh Dunkerley

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