Publisher's Synopsis
This book shares stories of response to fundamental questions concerning nature and culture, contributing to the contemporary discourse regarding climate emergencies. Written by artists, architects, scientists, anthropologists, and environmentalists, each chapter is delicately integrated and shaped as a proactive polyphony, building hope against the current ecological crisis. Along a transect of elements from nature we take a broader view of the global situation while spending time noticing details of the local context. Creative and scholarly actions engage with the world by shining a light on single moments, objects, or thoughts, while thinking laterally about the relations between nature and culture, urban and rural, and connecting the local with the global. This book has evolved in response to the concepts and methods that have characterized the essence and logic of a residency that is an eco-laboratory of multidisciplinary practice. The Nature, Art, and Habitat Residency (NAHR) dedicates space and time to support scholars and creatives to inquire and reflect on a specific element of nature in the Taleggio Valley, part of the Orobie Prealps in Italy, every year.
