Art & environment / ecology

How plants shape space, knowledge, and hierarchies across historical, ecological, and epistemic terrains.

The third of three projects to engage the resource industries of Vancouver Island, this publication responds to oceanic environments through contemporary art and writing.

Karenna Gore posits a future for the design practices that works within the living and intelligent design of Earth.

How the transition to fossil fuels entailed an intensification of ongoing processes of racialization.

An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.

a panoramic view of John Cornu's practice since 2006, with thirty-eight works accompanied by thirty-eight texts by historians, curators, conservation experts, art critics, and contemporary artists, with as many different approaches and possible readings.

Centered on the Al Ahsa region, one of the world's oldest and largest oases, Maghras: A Farm for Experimentation (accompanying the inaugural Saudi Pavilion at the 24th Triennale di Milano, marking Saudi Arabia's first participation in this global architecture and design platform) reimagines the farm as a site of collective inquiry, where environmental change, cultural memory, and community practices converge.

Amalgama is the outcome of the fourth edition of Convivial Tables, a field-based research project commissioned by TBA21–Academy for Ocean Space, dedicated to exploring the relationships between food and ecology, and their impact on bodies of water.

The other side of images in cinema, between phenomenology, art history, literature and ecology.

Documents artist Liam Gillick's process in building a functioning weather station for Fogo Island, Newfoundland.

The garden as an expression of ecology—both experiential and performative.

An exploration of the opportunities opened up by eco-design: from physical environments to imaginary ones, from a focus on resilient uses to new collective narratives.

This publication is a dynamic archive, the legacy of The Land Remembers, the Lebanese National Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Harnessing local knowledge, it responds with urgency to the intentional destruction of nature and societies in Lebanon.

The critical edition of the pioneering work on art history by Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920-2005), inventor of the concept of ecofeminism.

A Nomadic Book celebrates the first five editions of the Nomadic School. Launched in 2020 by Office for a Human Theatre [OHT], the school takes place each summer at around 2000 meters in the Alps, offering a different pedagogical approach—one that's more open to the mountain's ecosystems and rhythms.

A publication that directs dialogue and points of exchange among art, science, and environmental justice in the Americas.

An artist's book by architect, forester and refuge keeper Wim Cuyvers, examining the changing climate and the very definition of architecture through a photographic investigation of the landscape.

Designers and researchers question the notion of resources (being material, human or intellectual) and our everyday habits to explore the ways in which design can respond to contemporary issues by rethinking production, consumption and innovation (the catalogue of the 13th Saint-Étienne International Design Biennial).

Full-scale reproduction of the 1974 book by Ken Isaacs (1927-2016): a manual for creating various modular structures around the concept of the "matrix", it also provides an opportunity to immerse oneself in the philosophy of this pioneering architect, whose thinking in many respects resonates strongly with our own times.

An ecological fable by the design duo Formafantasma, beautifully illustrated by Clément Vuillier and accompanied by a rich selection of scientific texts exploring the intricate relationship between humans, the environment, and other organisms.

This book brings together artists and writers who use image-making and text as means to understand ecological change. By presenting their work here, including ongoing projects and commissioned pieces, the publication conveys knowledge within attentive proximity to the contributor's own definitions of the subject and their governance of observation and analysis of global crises in the age of the Anthropocene.

An invitation to think collectively about the ideas and forms of repurposing materials and objects from our everyday lives, confronted with formal and cultural ambitions that are more firmly rooted in the history, present and future of architecture.

An exploration of the ecologies of music and sound, from an ecosophical and emancipatory perspective.

Traditions of realism are brought together with the decolonial and ecological concept of "planetarity" to understand a new realism in contemporary art.

A massive value shift for existing buildings, infrastructure, materials, unbuilt land, earth, and the labor that holds our world together.

A decade (1969-1978) of observation, classification and illustration of the abusive vegetation infesting the grounds of the international railway station in Chiasso, Switzerland, by botanist Ernesto Schick (new edition).

Primarily intended as a reference work for those in charge of regenerative gardening training courses in Morocco, this ecological gardening guide, written under the direction of Carey Duncan in collaboration with the Bouregreg Med-O-Med Gardening School in Salé (FUNCI), is aimed at both professional gardeners and experienced amateurs.

An edited collection of contributions to conversations about the climate crisis and its role in critical discourse.

A new reading of the links between artistic practices that emerged in Japan in the late 1960s, against a backdrop of reconstruction and massive industrialization, and those of contemporary artists addressing current environmental issues.

An "ABC of the arts in transition" examining the ecological turn of the arts, the outcome of long-term collective research into the fundamental elements running through the art world and, more generally, the aesthetic and social universe in the current ecological crisis.

A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.

A book of fiction that brings together two environmentalist literary “fantasies” by Matali Crasset, with line drawings.

A vast research on the notion of acoustic and sound ecology and its transition to a new sound ecosophy, integrating the multidimensionality of listening to propose to hear differently.

A major milestone in the history of design, this pioneering work by Tomás Maldonado, published in 1970, lays the foundations for a critical and committed reflection, open to an ecological perspective, against the drifts of utopian regressions or exacerbated productivism.

A monograph designed in dialogue with George Trakas based on a choice of works from 1970 to 2022 made by the artist.

D'ici Fessenheim replicates and extends Élise Alloin's artistic research in the Fessenheim area, following the shutdown in 2020 of France's oldest nuclear power plant and the first in a series of dismantling operations to come.

Marion Laval-Jeantet's research into therapeutic care continues her work with Benoît Mangin under the name of Object-Oriented Art on microbiota, at the crossroads of scientific art, biology, anthropology, psychology and ethology.

A collection of essays discussing the role of spider/webs in different cultures from an inter-species perspective.

Transformative Currents: Art & Action in the Pacific Ocean, edited by Cassandra Coblentz, brings together diverse writers, scientists, artists, activists, and thinkers to investigate social and environmental issues throughout the entirety of the Pacific Ocean.

The first documentary account by artist, curator and publisher Ludovic Burel, Le laboratoire de fermentation (The fermentation laboratory) retraces four years of investigation, carried out on several continents, into wild and cultivated plants and the means of fermenting them, questioning our relationship to both the human (individual and society) and the non-human (plant and other).

Michel Guet's intellectual diary, from his commitment to "Banalytique" (an experimental movement that emerged from French post-situationnism in the early 1980s in response to the triumph of the "colonization of reality by market value" and the injunctions to make work totally profitable) to the social critique of art and the vertigo of a planet on fire.

On the advanced knowledge economy, which perpetuates patterns of discrimination and exclusion, and the threat of climate change devastation for both human and nonhuman entities.

A book inspired by the artist's research in intersectional environmentalism, deep listening, and decoloniality.

Elisa Caldana's The Falcon of Karachi investigates stories of the laggar falcon, a species endemic to Pakistan, India, and Myanmar that is slowly disappearing in the wild.

A double vinyl and a catalogue that constitute a proper extension of the exhibition with which the Capc in Bordeaux continues to question the forms that the museum can take, with the aim of creating a renewed awareness of what it means to breathe, both on an individual and collective level, at a time when the world is living in a climate of generalized asphyxia.

This collective publication explores the question of Earth rights through the interdisciplinary prism of socio-environmental humanities in relation to contemporary art.

An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.

An exploration of the various paths of ecodesign, from material environments to our imaginations, from concern for uses to new narratives.