Description
The publication collects the outcomes of a decade-long collaboration between scholars and creatives, who, through an artist and researcher-in-residence program, have explored current environmental challenges aiming for inclusive objectives at both the global and local levels. Six chapters highlight different ecological elements: Woods, Water, Rocks, Grasses, Animals, and Soil. Each brings together a polyphony of voices capable of reflecting on the dichotomy of nature and culture, rural and urban, and finally giving shape to suggestions for a new cooperative future. This is, in fact, the premise of the NAHR – Nature, Art & Habitat Residency eco-laboratory, which offers hospitality to researchers and artists in Val Taleggio, Italy, and in Santa Ynez Valley, California. NAHR investigates and strives for a co-existence on planet Earth in which nature and culture are intertwined in radical ways.
