Art & environment / ecology

Forty-one contributions by artists, scholars, scientists, and ocean activists in response to the current dramatic evolution of the oceans.

Microbial oceanography as a means to better understand the conditions of life (and survival) in the Anthropocene era.

An inventory of the controversies surrounding the issue of geoengineering, as a set of the large-scale intervention into the earth's natural systems attempting to counter the adverse effects of climate change.

An update on the issues at stake in the study of the human microbiome (various bacteria, viruses and micro-organisms that compose the human body's ecosystem), shedding new light on the relationship between humankind and nature and the new micro-biopolitics we are now facing.

A provocative and stimulating manifesto by Benjamin Bratton that promotes new ways of inhabiting (and artificialising) the planet, facing the environmental, economic and social crisis that radically belies the possibility of a continuation of the current globalised capitalist model.

The fifth issue of the research book-magazine at the intersection of architecture, art and economy, investigates the forms of intelligences to be considered, learned and transmitted in order to overcome the anthropocene.

This manual provides the current state of knowledge on the functioning of nature in an urban environment: its ecology.

An investigation on the question of the energy autonomy of the territories from the history of a village in the Hautes-Alpes in France.

An investigation on the natural reserve in the Vercors region, in an ecological, philosophical and political approach.

Critical re-edition in French of an absolutely precursory and fundamental work for the inclusion of social and environmental issues in the design process: the manifesto of a radical reconfiguration of the field of design, of its forms but above all of its mission.

Art, environment and climate emergency.

The twelfth volume of the Critical Spatial Practices series focuses on “Don't Follow the Wind,” the acclaimed collaborative project situated in the radioactive Fukushima exclusion zone.

A new interpretation of the explosive frog breeding phenomenon.

After the first two issues Mineral Pornography and Vegetal Trauma, the 3rd issue of Spectre invites contemporary artists to deliver their interpretation of contemporary ruins.

Art & microbiology: an essay on the critical, ethical and historical dimensions that result from the entry of microorganisms into the creative process, between art and science.

In a series of essays the artist Edith Brunette and François Lemieux outline collectively a few proposals on the question of inhabiting as put forward from their multiple and tenuous attachements to the land.

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

Julian Charrière's filmic journey to some of the most inhospitable areas of our planet.

An encounter between Gilles Clément, botanist, landscape gardener and writer, and Thierry Fontaine, photographer, both globetrotters and fascinated by the evolution of living things and mutant landscapes.

An encounter between Gilles Clément, botanist, landscape gardener and writer, and Thierry Fontaine, photographer, both globetrotters and fascinated by the evolution of living things and mutant landscapes.