How can we imagine and design possible futures for collective liberation? This is a question that has led Lebanese-Canadian researcher, educator, author, and designer Céline Semaan to co-found The Slow Factory and Everything Political, sharing knowledge, narratives, and archives of systemic injus
Each organism inhabits its own sensorial reality; the same landscape has a different message for each. In this edition of seeds, Priyanka Singh Parihar explores the concept of Umwelt, introduced by Jakob von Uexküll, the unique sensory experiences of different organisms, and the limits of human pe
Expanding outward from the author’s backyard into the broader landscape of Los Angeles, Ayla Gard reflects on the bounty of nature that exists within often-overlooked spaces—in our homes, along highways, even in the "dead" parts of our gardens. “The longer I live in L.A., the more I have come
Iraqi-Palestinian artist Sama Alsaibi explores the politics of looking using photography, moving images, and performances. Histories of exile, conflict, and survival are carried within bodies and landscapes; they are layered over cities and kept in memories, she explains in our latest Documenting Co
How do we recover our playfulness? How do we unlearn the idea that abundance is transactional? The garden and the grocery are two sites of abundance in the eyes of a child. Though different in many ways, both spaces appeal to us through their diversity of colour and scents; our young selves naviga
Can we save the stories, the songs, and the deities that are vanishing with Himalayan glaciers? The recent glacial outburst and flash flood in Nepal pose a profound question of cultural loss. While in the West, Himalayan glacier retreat is often framed as a climate crisis to be solved through scie
At a moment when climate change is most often articulated through data sets, political frameworks, and scientific research, Sacred Ecologies begins elsewhere—quietly and with intention. It turns towards cultures, towards memory, towards the invisible threads of our relationship with the natural wo
Where Himalayan heritage meets innovation in the arts sā Ladakh Biennale is a collective experience at the intersection of art, climate and culture. Rooted in Ladakhi soil (sā), in the northern border region of India, this high-altitude art exhibition bridges the gap between heritage and innova