Laboratory for Other Worlds
Speculative Designs for Living Beyond Ecological Damage
Laboratory for Other Worlds
Speculative Designs for Living Beyond Ecological Damage
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Responding to artist Patte Loper's exhibition Laboratory for Other Worlds, this volume presents a range of transdisciplinary essays to propose a design process for living with and beyond ecological damage. Weaving together cosmologies of Western science, Indigenous American epistemologies, and European folkloric sources, this volume demonstrates how exhibitions can be utilized as living forms of knowledge and pedagogy. Attesting that the climate crisis is as much cultural as it is physical, contributors argue how much experimenting and engaging with artwork, installations and designed objects can teach us about 'damaged worlds'.
Scholars and practitioners across art, design, anthropology, climate science, museum studies and poetry respond to Loper's ongoing collaborative exhibition – an installation on the variable sea level rise in the United States that combines a cluster of maps, sculpture, painting, ephemeral performance, jewellery, and other interactive elements – to consider debates around practices of preservation and care. Richly illustrated throughout and drawing on multiple sources from Christian iconography to Surrealist totemic imagery, they speculate about:
- A future salt marsh represented by a large-scale map, created from panels of cotton canvas
- Sculptural reliquaries holding precious and sacred remains
- Wearable objects made from coastal debris
- Artwork reflecting Dakota epistemology
- Performance as a cultural response to crises facing wetlands.
Putting forward a design process that makes climate science accessible and public, this volume illustrates how interdisciplinary collaboration can generate new forms of refuge and relational knowledge in a damaged world.
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Table of Contents
1. Otherworld Materiality: Ecofeminism, Neoromanticism, Medievalism, Lane Eagles (University of Washington, USA)
2. Archived in Sediment: How Reading Salt Marshes Shows that Modern Relative Sea-Level Rise is Unprecedented in Millennia, Andrew Kemp (Tufts University, USA)
3. Ptega, Wetland Reverence, Erin Genia (Tufts University, USA)
4. Dapsilidinium pastielsii, Juliana Spahr (Mills College, Northeastern University Oakland, USA)
5. Material Futures: Tanya Crane, Eugenia Kisin and Tanya Crane (Long Beach City College, USA)
6. Visual Storytelling at the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science, Sonya Atalay (University of Massachusetts Amherst and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
7. Gathering of the Clouds: Attending to Indigenous Understandings of Time and Climate Through Songspirals, Bawaka Country (East Arnhem Land)
8. Psychic Corporeal Maps: Plans for Future Saltmarsh Refugia, Julie Poitras Santos and sabine stxrm (both of Maine College of Art & Design, USA)
Afterword: Laboratory Protocols, Karen Holmberg and Eugenia Kisin (New York University, USA)
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Product details
| Published | Jun 29 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350645790 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Illustrations | 35 colour illus |
| Series | Beyond the Modern |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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