Here is the edit of the documentary film ‘Urban Evaporative Cooling and the Ecological Semiotics of Heat and Pollution in Athens’ made for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 with Greek subtitles
Tag: ecological activists
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Towers of Winds at Venice Biennale 2025
We’re busy nearing completion of material for our small installation of two film pieces in dialogue – one channelling the eco-mental systems of Athena by Linn Phyllis Seeger, and the other a documentary of our research-in-progress by Gemma Riggs – for the Venice Biennale 2025 curated by Carlo Ratti on the theme Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective
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Dry Stone Wall volunteer repair and training on Amorgos
Spent 21-26th October 2024 on Amorgos with Dimitra participating in the third Mitato dry stone wall repair and building training workshop and volunteer labour programme, led by the excellent https://mitato-amorgos.com/en/
We worked on repairing several hundred meters of the main foot-donkey path near Potamos on Amorgos
Some essential dry stone walls theory classes in the evenings…
And discussion around their and other groups organising on and around these landscapes.
I have several hundred meters of terraces and dry stone walls that need repair and maintenance at Rheomode Ikaria, so this was invaluable for that work…
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Enacting Gregory Bateson’s Ecological Aesthetics in Architecture and Design
Starting a two year AHRC-DFG jointly funded reseach project on the work of ecological anthropologist Gregory Bateson, together with Joanna Boehnert, Marie Davidova, Dulmini Perera, Simon Sadler and Ben Sweeting. You can follow us online at https://www.enactingecologicalaesthetics.com/
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An Introduction to Gregory Bateson’s Ecology of Mind
It was a pleasure to return to the Pari Centre for New Learning (even if virtually) to present this introduction to the thinking of ecological anthropologist Gregory Bateson.. There will be a Pt 2 continuation of this, early in 2023.
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ADS5 at RCA Show 2012 and ‘Between the A12 and River Lea’ exhibition.
It has been a great first year teaching MA/diploma studio at the Royal College of Art with Justin Lau and Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui. The (rather out of date) studio blog is at http://ads5.wordpress.com/
Particular congratulations to final year students Jack Wates, Joseph Deane (who will represent the RCA in the RIBA Silver medal awards) and Emma Emerson (who was awarded the NLA prize by Peter Murray).
The work is on show at the RCA Show 2012 until July 2nd, and at the exhibition ‘Between the A12 and River Lea‘ at Assemble’s studios, which is open until July 8th as a part of the London Festival of Architecture.
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Gregory Bateson – An Ecology of Mind documentary film
I am co-organising (with Kevin Power (Centre for Action Research, Ashridge Business School) and Wallace Heim) the London premier of:
An Ecology of Mind: A Film by Nora Bateson
Monday 27 February 2012, 18:30-22:00 pm
Old Cinema, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UWTickets: £9.50; £3.50 (student/unwaged/Westminster staff)
Book your ticket from: http://anecologyofmindlondon.eventbrite.co.uk/The Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture (IMCC) at the University of Westminster is proud to host the London premier of Nora Bateson’s An Ecology of Mind: A Daughter’s Portrait of Gregory Bateson. The screening will be followed by an interdisciplinary panel and audience discussion with Nora Bateson, and will end with a wine reception in the Regent Street foyer.
Panel with Nora Bateson; Iain Boal (Birkbeck College); Jody Boehnert (Brighton University); Ranulph Glanville (American Society for Cybernetics); Peter Reason (Action Research); and Wendy Wheeler (London Metropolitan University). Chaired by Jon Goodbun (IMCC and Architecture, Westminster)
“Tell me a story” … of life, art and science, of systems and survival. Gregory Bateson’s way of thinking – seeing the world as relationships, connections and patterns – continues to influence and provoke new thinking about human social life, about ecology, technology, art, design and health. Nora Bateson, Gregory’s youngest daughter, introduces Bateson’s ideas to new audiences in her film An Ecology of Mind, using the metaphor of a relationship between father and daughter, and footage of Bateson’s talks.
There are several other screenings around the country – see www.anecologyofmind.com Each screening, too, hosts a discussion between Nora and a wide range of people working in depth with Bateson’s ideas: artists, architects, action researchers, ecological activists, mental health practitioners, scientists, urban designers, cyberneticians. These screenings and discussions intend to show a way of thinking that crosses fields of knowledge and experience, one that can lead out of the ecological crisis and towards a more sound way of living.
Awards for the film:
Gold for Best Documentary, Spokane International Film Festival, 2011
Audience Award Winner, Best Documentary, Santa Cruz Film Festival, 2011
Winner, Media Ecology Association, John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis, 2011Event organised by Jon Goodbun (Westminster), Wallace Heim, Kevin Power (Centre for Action Research, Ashridge Business School) and Eva Bakkeslett
To book a ticket go to: http://anecologyofmindlondon.eventbrite.co.uk/
