Field to Palette (eBook, ePUB)

Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene
Redaktion: Toland, Alexandra; Wessolek, Gerd; Noller, Jay Stratton

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In an age of accelerated global soil degradation, creative approaches to protecting soil are warranted. This book is a transdisciplinary, multimedia reflection on the representation and meaning of soil resources in an age of crisis. It covers critical positions on land use, biodiversity, and many other facets of cultural dependence on the soil.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 703
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351582421
• Artikelnr.: 54536091

Autorenporträt

Dr. Alexandra R. Toland is a visual artist and environmental planner with research interests in ecosystem services, urban ecology, soil and culture, and the Anthropocene. She is junior professor for arts and research at the Bauhaus University of Weimar and has previously lectured at the Technische Universität Berlin, University of Arts Berlin (UDK), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and Leuphana University. She co-chaired the German Soil Science Society's Commission on Soils in Education and Society from 2011 to 2015 with Gerd Wessolek and continues to write and make artwork about soil. Dr. Jay Stratton Noller is professor of landscape pedology and head of the Department of Crop and Soil Science at Oregon State University. His research focuses on morphologistics and human interactions with soils in modern and ancient agricultural and forest landscapes of the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. His experience crosses disciplines of soil science, geomorphology, art, and archaeology and his work as an artist at Soilscape Studio LLC is internationally recognized. Dr. Gerd Wessolek is a soil physicist and painter who has pioneered efforts at giving soils and soil science a broader exposure to wider audiences through presentations, exhibitions, and soil art projects. Information on his research on urban soils in the vadose zone and an online gallery can be found at http://www.boden.tu-berlin.de. Since 1999 he has been chair of the Soil Protection Department at the Technische Universität Berlin.

Inhaltsangabe

I. SUSTENANCE 1. Urban Farming: The New Green Revolution? 2. Taste of
Place: Terroir as Experience 3. A Root Stew from the Kitchen of Sarah
Wiener 4. Artisanal Soil 5. Black Gold 6. Temple of Holy Shit: On
Human-Soil Nutrient Cycles and the Future of Sustainable Sanitation 7.
S.Oil 8. Murray River Punch: A Conversation on Changes Along the River 9.
Yield 10. On Corn Mothers and Meal Culture: Ecofeminist Alternatives to
Food Politics and Soil Security II. REPOSITORY 11. Soil Genesis: A Dialogue
for Creation 12. A Kind of Soil Genesis on Canvas 13. Painting with Earth:
Earth Pigments in North Devon a Guide for Teachers and Artists 14.
Pedometrics, Pictures, and Poetry 15. From Earth 16. Correlation
Drawing/Drawing Correlations 17. Mineral Traces: The Aesthetic and
Environmental Transcendence of Soil Mineral Properties 18. A Snapshot in
Time: The Dynamic and Ephemeral Structure of Peatland Soils 19. Carbon 20.
Deep-Time Moles: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Geological Archiving
III. INTERFACE 21. Honoring Soil Hydrology in Pictures 22. Waterviz at
Hubbard Brook: The Confluence of Science, Art and Music at Long Term
Ecological Research Sites 23. Aesthetic Engineering: Giving Visual Credence
to Restoration Processes 24. Rocks, Radishes, and Restoration: On the
Relationships Between Clean Water and Healthy Soil 25. Dirt Dialogue 26.
WATERWASH for a Swimmable Bronx River 27. Backyard Portals: A
Solutions-Oriented Approach to Valuing Soil 28. Don't Worry, It's Only Mud
29. The Art of Decay: Soil Decomposition Explored Through the Visual Arts
IV. HOME 30. Exploring the Invisible: The Exemplary Life of Soil 31.
SOILED. Reflecting A Natural Body Through Socio-Aesthetical and
Bio-Political Viewpoints 32. Nematode State of Mind 33. On Colour Hunting
34. A Public Chemistry of the Detritusphere 35. Soil Macrocosms: Microbes,
People, and Our Cumulative Effects 36. A Soil Procession and Seed Journey
to Preserve Genetic Diversity 37. Future Worlds V. HERITAGE 38. Reframing
Heritage: Cultural Soilscapes and Soil Memory 39. The Weapon is Sharing 40.
Stories from the Hills: Tales of the Lowland 41. Sketches in the Sands of
Time 42. A Visual Ethnography of Soils in Space and Time 43. Lessons from
Emma Lake: A Metamorphosis of Science and Art in Landscape and Local Colour
44. Soil Connoisseurship 45. Underground Roots 46. Soil Lovers Unite! for a
Down & Dirty Q & A VI. PLATFORM 47. Seeing the Soil Platform 48. Perpetual
Architecture: Uranium Disposal Cells of the Southwest 49. Wastelands 50.
The Earth Print Archive: A Forensic Documentation of Land Take 51. Soil in
the City: The Socio-Environmental Substrate 52. The Soil Assembly and
Dissemination Authority (SADA): A Thought Experiment in Building Tomorrow's
Soils Today 53. Soil Chemistry and Urban Design in the Hybrid Landscapes of
South China 54. The City as Forest: Cartographic Reflections on Land Use in
Brazil 55. Island Urbanism: Rethinking the Land-Use Technology of the
Watershed